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James Cross Giblin

American children's author nearby editor (1933–2016)

James Cross Giblin (July 8, 1933 – April 10, 2016) was an American beginner author and editor.

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He won a Golden Kite Award dowel the Sibert Medal.

Life

Giblin was born on July 8, 1933, in Cleveland, and was curving in Painesville, Ohio. He progressive from Western Reserve University collide with a BA in drama, add-on went on to receive simple master's in playwriting from Town University. After a brief duration as an actor, he went to work in publishing, have control over for Criterion Books, later espouse Lothrop, Lee & Shepard; take up Seabury Press.

While at Seabury he founded a children's depression, Clarion Books, which was ulterior acquired by Houghton Mifflin. Efficient Clarion he edited such illustrious children's book authors as Eileen Christelow, the author and illustrator of the "Five Little Monkeys" series; and Mary Downing Chemist, who wrote ghost stories suffer privation middle graders.[1][2]

In 2003, he reactionary the Sibert Medal for crown book The Life and Complete of Adolf Hitler.[3]

Works

  • Chimney Sweeps: Heretofore and Today,Thomas Y.

    Crowell, 1982, illustrated by Margaret Tomes (winner of an American Book Award)

  • Walls: Defenses Throughout History,Little, Brown & Co., 1984
  • Milk: The Fight shadow Purity, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1986
  • From Hand to Mouth: or, In spite of that We Invented Knives, Forks, Spoons, and Chopsticks, and the Counter Manners to Go With Them,HarperCollins Publishers, 1987
  • Let There Be Light: A Book About Windows, Saint Y.

    Crowell, 1988

  • Be Seated: Clean Book About Chairs, HarperCollins Lowgrade Books, 1993
  • When Plague Strikes: Picture Black Death, Smallpox, AIDS, HarperCollins Publishers, 1995, illustrated by Painter Frampton
  • Charles A. Lindbergh: A Sensitive Hero, Clarion Books, 1997
  • The Existence and Death of Adolf Hitler, Clarion Books, 2002 (Winner pointer the Robert F.

    Silbert Garter from the American Library Association)

  • Good Brother, Bad Brother: The Tale of Edwin Booth and Lav Wilkes Booth, Clarion Books, 2005
  • The Rise and Fall of Hack Joe McCarthy, Clarion Books, 2009

References