Cheryl Chapman
Cheryl Orth Chapman (born April 17, 1948 in Madison , Wisconsin ) is an American teacher and author of children's books.
Cheryl Chapman grew up in Wisconsin, Oklahoma , the oldest of five children. To entertain her younger siblings and their friends, she began to invent and write stories at the age of seven. Several moves from Wisconsin to Minnesota , Illinois and Iowa gave her a love for travel and the joy of meeting new people and friendships.
She published her first poem at the age of ten and continued to specialize in the genre during her school years. As a teacher, she then devoted her classes to promoting reading books and writing her own poems and stories.
Through her studies in psychology , special needs education and the development of children, she gained further experience for her work.
At the time of the hippie movement , she spent a year in Heidelberg . Here she got involved as a pacifist and got to know Germany and the German language. She put the impressions she collected in poems and stories in which castles, palaces and dragons, but also a particularly expressive language, recur again and again in her own rhythm and melody. She herself says that she only writes books “to bring a smile to the faces of the audience”.
Cheryl Chapman lives and writes with her husband in Brookfield , Illinois.
Awards
- 1987: Medgar Evers Service Award, La Grange Area NAACP (Illinois)
- 1991: Humanitarian Award, La Grange Area NAACP (Illinois)
- 1997: Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching with 6-Month Sabbatical at Northwestern University (Chicago & Evanston, Illinois)
- 2006: Japan Fulbright Memorial Fund Teacher Workshop in Japan, Tokyo & Chigasaki
Works
- Pass the fritters, critters. Illustrations by Susan L. Roth . Harcourt Brace & Company, Orlando 1993, ISBN 0-15-307278-4 .
- Snow on Snow on Snow. Illustrations by Synthia Saint James. Dial Books, New York 1994, ISBN 0-8037-1457-2 .
- Dracko dragon eater. From the American and with black and white photos by Josef Mahlmeister . With drawings by Michael Kämper . Palabros de Cologne, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-9806184-7-1 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Cheryl Chapman in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Chapman, Cheryl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Chapman, Cheryl Orth |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American author, teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 17, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Madison (Wisconsin) |