Gate Seidler

Tor Seidler (* 1952 in Littleton , New Hampshire ) is an American children's books author .

Life and work

Tor Seidler grew up in South Burlington and Seattle . After graduating from high school, he studied English literature at Stanford University and graduated in 1972. From 1976 to 1978 he was employed by the New York publisher Harcourt Trade Publishers and then became a freelance writer.

According to his own account, Seidler was inspired to write when he read Thornton Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey when he was ten . In 1979, when Seidler was 27 years old, his first book The Dulcimer Boy was published .

Seidler often worked with well-known illustrators and artists, such as David Hockney and Brian Selznick . His novel A Rat's Tale was filmed for the cinema in 1997 with the marionettes of the Augsburger Puppenkiste , the German title is The Story of Monty Spinnerratz , directed by Michael F. Huse . Wainscott Weasel was included in the list of "Notable Books" by the American Library Association in 1993, while Mean Margaret was nominated for the 1997 National Book Award .

German publications

• The story of Monty Spinnerratz - The book for the film . Egmont Franz Schneider Verlag, Cologne 1997 (with Peter Scheerbaum & Werner Morgenrath), ISBN 978-3505106354
• The secret of the air . Bertelsmann, Munich 2000, (with Katarina Ganslandt), ISBN 978-3570125304
• The story of Monty Spinnerratz . Bertelsmann, Munich 2001, ISBN 978-3570260593
• Dear monster Margaret! (Original title: Mean Margaret ). Sauerländer Verlag, Oberentfelden 2001, ISBN 978-3794147663
• Danny and the Lord of the Games (Original title: Brainboy and the DeathMaster ). 3. Edition. Dressler, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 978-3791519128

English works

• 1979: The Dulcimer Boy
• 1982: Terpin
• 1985: A Rat's Tale
• 1987: The Tar Pit
• 1993: The Wainscott Weasel
• 1997: Mean Margaret
• 1998: The Silent Spillbills
• 2001: The Revenge of Randall Reese Council
• 2002: Brothers Below Zero
• 2003: Brainboy and the Deathmaster
• 2004: Toes
• 2008: Gully's Travels

Individual evidence

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Web links

• Literature by and about Tor Seidler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Tor Seidler's page at Harper Collins Verlag