Joyce Sidman

{{short description|American children's writer (born 1956)}}

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| birth_place = Minnesota, U.S.

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| education = Wesleyan University (BA)

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Joyce Sidman (born June 4, 1956) is an American children's writer. She was a runner-up for the 2011 Newbery Medal, and won the Sibert Medal in 2019.{{Cite web|url=http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/state-of-the-arts/archive/2011/01/wayzata-poet-joyce-sidman-wins-newbery-honor.shtml|title = Wayzata poet Joyce Sidman wins Newbery honor| date=21 October 2014 }}{{Cite web |last=Shelf |first=ALSC Book & Media Awards |title=ALSC Book & Media Awards Shelf |url=https://alsc-awards-shelf.org/book/853/the-girl-who-drew-butterflies-how-maria |access-date=2024-10-27 |website=alsc-awards-shelf.org}}

She graduated from Wesleyan University, with a B.A. in German.{{Cite web |url=http://www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Sidman__Joyce.html |title=Joyce Sidman |access-date=2011-04-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100609212504/http://www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Sidman__Joyce.html |archive-date=2010-06-09 |url-status=dead }}

She is married and lives in Wayzata, Minnesota with her husband and their two sons.{{cite web|url=http://www.childrensliteraturenetwork.org/aifolder/aipages/ai_s/sidman.html |title=Joyce Sidman |accessdate=2011-04-05 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110102212324/http://www.childrensliteraturenetwork.org/aifolder/aipages/ai_s/sidman.html |archivedate=2011-01-02 }}

Selected Works

=Poetry=

  • Like the Air. Georgetown, KY: Finishing Line Press, 1999. {{ISBN|978-0-9664324-2-8}}

=Children's books=

  • Just Us Two: Poems about Animal Dads. Illustrator Susan Swan. Brookfield, CT: Millbrook Press, 2000.
  • {{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qwapNFTFey8C&q=joyce+sidman| title=Eureka!: Poems about Inventors| others= Illustrator K. Bennett Chavez| place= Brookfield, CT| publisher= Millbrook Press| year=2002| isbn=978-0-7613-1665-7 }}
  • {{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5feSzQHjcJ8C&q=joyce+sidman| title=The World According to Dog: Poems and Teen Voices| others= Illustrator Doug Mindel| place= Boston| publisher= Houghton Mifflin| year= 2003| isbn=978-0-618-17497-3 }}
  • {{cite book| url=https://archive.org/details/songofwaterboatm00sidm| url-access=registration| quote=joyce sidman.| title=Song of the Water Boatman: Pond Poems| others= Illustrator Beckie Prange| place= Boston| publisher= Houghton Mifflin| year= 2004| isbn=978-0-618-13547-9}}
  • {{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q-SmJ2nij4sC&q=joyce+sidman| title=Meow Ruff: A Story in Concrete Poetry| others= Illustrator Michelle Berg| place= Boston| publisher= Houghton Mifflin| year= 2006| isbn=978-0-618-44894-4 }}
  • {{cite book| url=https://archive.org/details/butterflyeyesoth00sidm| url-access=registration| quote=joyce sidman.| title=Butterfly Eyes and Other Secrets of the Meadow| others= Illustrator Beth Krommes| place= Boston| publisher= Houghton Mifflin| year= 2006| isbn=978-0-618-56313-5 }}
  • This Is Just to Say: Poems of Apology and Forgiveness. Illustrator Pamela Zagarensky. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007. {{ISBN|978-0-618-61680-0}}
  • {{cite book| url=https://archive.org/details/redsingsfromtree0000sidm| url-access=registration| quote=joyce sidman.| title=Red Sings From Treetops: A Year in Colors| others= Illustrator Pamela Zagarensky| place= Boston| publisher= Houghton Mifflin| year= 2009| isbn= 978-0-547-01494-4 }}
  • Dark Emperor & Other Poems of the Night|{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0uFWCv0DCBIC&q=joyce+sidman&pg=PP1| title=Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night| others=Illustrator Rick Allen| publisher= Houghton Mifflin Harcourt| year= 2010| isbn=978-0-547-15228-8 }}
  • Ubiquitous: Celebrating Nature's Survivors, Illustrator Beckie Prange, Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 2010, {{ISBN|978-0-618-71719-4}}
  • Swirl by Swirl: Spirals in Nature, Illustrator Beth Krommes, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011, {{ISBN|978-0-547-31583-6}}
  • Round, Illustrated by Taeeun Yoo, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017, {{ISBN|978-0-544-38761-4}}. Round received Mathical Honors{{Cite news|title=Mathical Book Prizes 2021|url=https://www.mathicalbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Mathical_Booklist_Web_2021.pdf}}
  • The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018, {{ISBN|978-0-544-71713-8}}

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