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Joan Blos

American novelist

Joan Winsor Blos (December 9, 1928 – October 12, 2017) was an American writer, teacher and advocate for children's literacy.

For her 1979 historical novel, A Gathering of Days, Blos won the U.S. National Book Award in category Children's Books and the Newbery Medal for the year's most distinguished contribution to American children's literature.

She was born in New York City. She lived in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Works

1971 Just Think (with Betty Miles)
1979 A Gathering of Days; A New England Girl's Journal, 1830–32
1984 Martin's Hats
1985 Brothers of the Heart: A Story of the Old Northwest, 1837–1838
1988 Old Henry
1989 The Grandpa Days
1989 Lottie's Circus
1991 The Heroine of the Titanic: A Tale Both True and Otherwise of the Life of Molly Brown
1992 A Seed a Flower a Minute, an Hour
1994 Brooklyn Doesn't Rhyme
1995 The Hungry Little Boy
1996 Nellie Bly's Monkey: His Remarkable Story in His Own Words
1997 One Very Best Valentine's Day
1998 Bedtime!
1999 Hello, Shoes!
2007 Letters From the Corrugated Castle

Notes

^Blos and A Gathering of Days won the award for hardcover Children's Literature.
From 1980 to 1983 in National Book Award history there were dual awards for hardcover and paperback books in many categories. Most of the paperback award-winners were reprints, including the 1980 Children's Literature paperback.

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Bank Street College of Education, New York, NY, associate in publications division and member of faculty, 1958-70; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, lecturer in juvenile literature at School of Education, 1972-80. Volunteer reviewer of children's books for Connecticut Association of Mental Health, 1954-56.

John Newbery Medal from American Library Association, American Book Award, both 1980, and Best Books of the Year designation, School Library Journal, and English-Speaking Union Ambassador Book designation, all for A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32; honorary doctorate from Bank Street College of Education, New York City, 2002.

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

In the City, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1964.

(With Betty Miles) People Read, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1964.

(With Betty Miles) Joe Finds a Way, L. W. Singer (Syracuse, NY), 1967.

"It's Spring," She Said, Knopf (New York, NY), 1968.

(With Betty Miles) Just Think!, Knopf (New York, NY), 1971.

A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32 (historical fiction), Scribner (New York, NY), 1979.

Martin's Hats, illustrated by Marc Simont, Morrow (New York, NY), 1984.

Brothers of the Heart: A Story of the Old Northwest, 1837-1838 (historical fiction), Scribner (New York, NY), 1985.

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Old Henry (picture book), illustrated by Stephen Gammell, Morrow (New York, NY), 1987.

The Grandpa Days, illustrated by Emily Arnold McCully, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (New York, NY), 1989.

One Very Best Valentine's Day, illustrated by Emanuel Schongut, Little Simon (New York, NY), 1989.

Lottie's Circus, illustrated by Irene Trivas, Morrow (New York, NY), 1989.

The Heroine of the Titanic: A Tale Both True and Oth

The Heroine of the Titanic: A Tale Both True and Otherwise of the Life of Molly Brown
December 6, 2017
I would teach this book with 3rd to 6th graders. Children younger than this age may not know or understand much or anything about the Titanic. The grade equivalent is 5.8 and the Lexile is 790. This witty, lighthearted biography of Molly Brown, legendary heroine of the West, is told in a boisterous picture book with theatrical flair. Molly Brown was set on three things in life: "having fun, doing good and being sure there's plenty of money." Courageous and confident, she sang in the rough mining town of Leadville, Colorado, where she married into money. When the Denver ladies snubbed her, she traveled the world and learned to yodel in Switzerland and to play the ukelele in Honolulu. But she really became a heroine when she sailed on the Titanic, took charge of a lifeboat, and helped many survive. The story has such a good flow making a biography easy to keep up with and be interested. The bouncy, rhythmic storytelling and double-spread illustrations in watercolor and ink evoke the old-style musical comedy in which Molly herself might have sung. The lifeboat scene, with Molly singing and telling stories to the huddled passengers, is the stuff of legend. Often framed with swirling drapes, the pictures are packed with people, action, and lots of objects. In a note at the back, Blos mentions the musical and film The Unsinkable Molly Brown, and the catchy, rhyming verses are like program notes. This book would be great for reading aloud, this is entertainment that's part tall tale, part sentiment, about a woman with a "heart that was as big as a ham."

(1928–2017). American picture book

Wilhelm Blos
German politician (1849–1927)
Wilhelm Josef Blos (5 October 1849 – 6 July 1927) was a German journalist, historian, novelist, dramatist and politician (SPD). He served as a member of the imperial parliament (Reichstag) between 1877 and 1918, albeit with one three year break. After the end of World War I he served between 1918 and 1920 as the first president of the newly launched Free People's State of Württemberg.
One high-point of his career as a journalist was his one-year stint as editor-in-chief of the (initially) Hamburg-based popular left-wing satirical magazine Der Wahre Jacob between 1879 and the publication's (temporary) closure, triggered by expulsion of William Blos from Hamburg in October 1880. His own contributions appeared under the pseudonyms "Hans Flux" or – on at least one occasion – "A. Titus".
Life
Provenance and early years
Wilhelm Joseph Blos was born at Wertheim am Main during the aftermath of the 1848 uprisings, the son of a physician who had moved away from the big city on account of his delicate health. Aloys Blos died from an incurable lung disease in 1856, when his son Wilhelm was just seven years old. His children's mother almost immediately remarried, selecting on this occasion a forester. Wilhelm and his sister acquired a step-father who abused Wilhelm. In 1863 he went to live with his grandparents. His grandfather died almost at once, but his grandmother attended to his education. He became a pupil at the (subsequently renamed and rebuilt) Lyceum (secondary school) in Wertheim, his hometown, located slightly above 100 km to the north of Stuttgart. Wilhelm Blos would later sue his step-father successfully for stealing his inheritance. Meanwhile, he embarked on a commercial apprenticeship in Mannheim, but broke it off uncompleted in order to study for and pass his Abitur (school graduation exam) which in 1868 opened the wa

Joan Winsor Blos (December 9, 1928