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}}
References
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External links
{{Portal |Children's literature}}
- {{official website }}
- [http://wildrosereader.blogspot.com/2008/04/interview-with-joyce-sidman.html "Interview with Joyce Sidman"], Wild Rose Reader, April 18, 2008
- [http://www.classof2k11.com/?p=1250 "Interview with Joyce Sidman"], Class of 2k11, Sheila O'Connor, January 25, 2011
- [http://childrensbookalmanac.com/2011/04/joyce-sidman/ "Joyce Sidman"], Children's Book Almanac
- {{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Nkl0ZoNI6vwC&q=joyce+sidman&pg=PA115| title=Poetry people: a practical guide to children's poets | author= Sylvia M. Vardell | publisher= Greenwood Publishing Group| year= 2007| isbn= 978-1-59158-443-8 }}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20240604012507/https://lccn.loc.gov/n98102240 Joyce Sidman] at Library of Congress Authorities — with 14 catalog records
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Category:Wesleyan University alumni
Category:American children's writers
Category:Writers from Hartford, Connecticut
Category:Newbery Honor winners
Category:People from Wayzata, Minnesota
Category:20th-century American writers
Category:21st-century American writers
Category:20th-century American women writers
Category:21st-century American women writers
Category:American women children's writers
Category:Writers from Minnesota