Laura Amy Schlitz

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Laura Amy Schlitz (born May 28, 1955 in Baltimore , Maryland , USA ) is an American author of children's and youth literature .

Life

Schlitz graduated from Goucher College in Towson , Maryland in 1977. In addition to her literary work, she works as a librarian at the Park School elementary school in her native city.

Schlitz also wrote under the pen name Chloe Cheshire . One of her books describes the life of the archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann , and in 2006 she published a retelling of a fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm with the title The Bearskinner . The Good Masters! Sweet ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village was intended for 5th grade students from their school who performed the life of 10 to 15 year old children in the Middle Ages in more than 21 roles.

Prizes and awards

Works

  • Under the pseudonym Chloe Cheshire the romance novel A Gypsy at Almack's

Published by Candlewick Press, Cambridge (Massachusetts), USA:

  • A Drowned Maidem's Hair: A Melodrama . 2006, ISBN 978-0-7636-2930-4 .
  • The Hero Schliemann: The Dreamer who Dug for Troy , illustrated by Robert Byrd . 2006, ISBN 978-0-7636-2283-1 .
  • Retelling: The Bearskinner: A Tale of the Brothers Grimm , illustrated by Max Grafe. 2007.
  • Good Masters! Sweet ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village , illustrated by Robert Byrd, 2007.
  • The Night Fairy , illustrated by Angela Barrett. 2010, ISBN 978-0-7636-3674-6 .
  • Splendors and Glooms . 2012.
    • German by Eva Plorin: Clara and the magic of the puppet master . Thienemann Verlag, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-522-18303-1 .
  • Fire Spell . 2012.
  • The hired girl . 2015.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ For the birthday there is a dancing skeleton in FAZ from January 11, 2014, page 32
personal data
SURNAME Schlitz, Laura Amy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cheshire, Chloe (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer for children and young adults, librarian
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Baltimore , Maryland , USA