Sara Pennypacker

Sara Pennypacker (born Sara Young on December 9, 1951 in Massachusetts ) is an American children's author.

Life

Sara Young completed an artistic training. She paints watercolors and ran a gallery. She got married and has two children. In 1990 she started writing children's literature. Since then she has published almost twenty children's books under her married name Sara Pennypacker (as of 2017), including the series Clementine illustrated by Marla Frazee and translated into German by Gabriele Haefs . She publishes her adult literature under her maiden name Sara Young, a novel about the National Socialist Lebensborn program .

Sara Young lives on Cape Cod .

Awards

• 2017 LovelyBooks readers' award in the children's book category for Mein Freund Pax

Works (selection)

• Stuart's Cape (2002)
• Stuart Goes to School (2005)
• Clementine (2006)
  • Clementine . Images Marla Frazee. Translation by Gabriele Haefs. Hamburg: Carlsen, 2007
• The Talented Clementine (2007)
  • Curtain up on Clementine . Images Marla Frazee. Translation by Gabriele Haefs. Hamburg: Carlsen, 2008
• Pierre In Love (2007) picture book
• Clementine's Letter (2008)
  • Clementine writes a letter . Images Marla Frazee. Translation by Gabriele Haefs. Hamburg: Carlsen, 2009
• The Mount Rushmore Calamity (2009)
• The Great Egyptian Grave Robbery (2009)
• The Japanese Ninja Surprise (2009)
• The Intrepid Canadian Expedition (2009)
• Sparrow Girl (2009) picture book
• Clementine, Friend of the Week (2010)
  • Clementine's crazy week . Images Marla Frazee. Translation by Gabriele Haefs. Hamburg: Carlsen, 2011
• Clementine and the Family Meeting (2011)
  • A baby for Clementine . Images Marla Frazee. Translation by Gabriele Haefs. Hamburg: Carlsen, 2013
• Summer of the Gypsy Moths (2012)
  • The summer of the owl butterflies . Translation by Gabriele Haefs. Hamburg: Carlsen, 2015
• Clementine and the Spring Trip (2013)
  • Clementine and the school trip . Images Marla Frazee. Translation by Gabriele Haefs. Hamburg: Carlsen, 2015
• Completely Clementine (2015)
  • Everything new for Clementine . Images Marla Frazee. Translation by Gabriele Haefs. Hamburg: Carlsen, 2016
• Meet the Dullards . Illustrations Daniel Salmieri. (2015) Picture Book
• Pax (2016)
  • My friend Pax . Illustrations Jon Klassen. Translation by Birgitt Kollmann. Düsseldorf: Sauerländer, 2017
• Waylon! One Awesome Thing (2016)

Sara Young

• My Enemy's Cradle . London: HarperCollins, 2008

Web links

• Literature by and about Sara Pennypacker in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Sara Pennypacker in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Short biography and reviews of works by Sara Pennypacker at perlentaucher.de
• Amy Meythaler: Sara Pennypacker: Artist and Award-winning Author Stamps Young Readers' Passports to Adventure , Interview, at MackinVia Community, October 31, 2016
• Sara Pennypacker , at S. Fischer

Individual evidence

1. ^ My Enemy's Cradle , website