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Louise Hawes is the author of more than fifteen
books for young readers. Waiting for Christopher
was named a New York City Public Library Best Book for the Teenage
and was chosen as one of the top ten best reads by Girls Life.
Rosey in the Present Tense was named a Center for Children's
Books Best Book and a YALSA Popular Paperback, was nominated for
South Carolina Young Adult Book of the Year, and was chosen for
the Children's Book Council's Booklist on Trauma and Loss. Her
books for middle-graders include fantasy novels, the Nelson Malone
books (Winner of the New Jersey Author's Award), as well as a
nonfiction account of the life of American painter Willem deKooning.
Louise has authored short fiction for Prentice Hall's YA fiction
text, The Reader Writes the Story and for Simon & Schuster's
Love and Sex: Ten Stories of Truth. Other shorts are included in Such a Pretty Face, a YA anthology about
beauty from Abrams (2007), and in Be Careful What You Wish For, a middle grade collection from Scholastic (2007).
Booklist writes, "Seven gems based on traditional fairy tales make up this collection of unique short stories. In these beautifully written, sometimes harsh retellings, Cinderella craves the deaths of her wicked stepmother and stepsisters; Rapunzel is...Rampion, the deceptive daughter of a kindly witch; and Erin, one of the seven dwarfs, falls in love with Snow White. Each freshly named fairy tale is told from an untraditional
perspective, such as the harp from “Jack and the Beanstalk,” Gretel in “Hansel and Gretel,” and a crippled child in “The Pied Piper.”
...Twisted, clever, and artfully written, these are a high-quality addition to the fractured fairy tale genre." -review of Louise Hawes' Black Pearls, 2008 |
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| Louise's novel, The Vanishing Point,
is available from Houghton Mifflin in hardcover and paperback. Historical fiction
set in Renaissance Italy, the book was named
an Independent Booksellers' 2004-2005 Booksense Pick, a New York City Public Library Best Book for the Teenage, and garnered
a News and Observer Wilde Award for the best new books of
2004; study guide here. Houghton also published her picture book set in ancient
Egypt, Muti's Necklace, in 2006. |
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Louise, who teaches in the nation's only MFA program in Writing
for Children, offers school visits for students of all ages, in-service
presentations for teachers, and programs for clubs and conferences.
For more about this author and her books, check out her website
at www.louisehawes.com
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