The book is a Junior Library Guild selection. The Lincolns: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary, published Octoby Schwartz & Wade, is a nonfiction children's book about Abraham Lincoln and his wife, Mary. Subsequent publications have all appeared under the name Candace Fleming. Her first picture book Professor Fergus Fahrenheit and his Wonderful Weather Machine was published by Simon & Schuster in 1994 as written by "Candace Groth-Fleming" and illustrated by Don Weller ( LCCN 93-4432). Since that time, she has worked full-time as a writer, educator, and speaker.
įrom 1997 to 2005, Fleming was a teacher at William Rainey Harper College near Chicago. She married Scott Fleming Novemand has two children, Scott and Michael, with him. She received a Bachelor of Arts from Eastern Illinois University in 1985. Biography įleming was born May 24, 1962, in Michigan City, Indiana to Charles and Carol Groth. In 2016, she was a finalist for the NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature, which "celebrates the importance of children's and young-adult literature and the impact it has on our children's minds." Thirty-two of her books are Junior Library Guild selections. In 2013, the Children's Book Council named Fleming a Children's Book Month Champion, and in 2014, Fleming was awarded the Children’s Book Guild Nonfiction Award. She is the author of more than twenty books for children and young adults, including the Los Angeles Times Book Prize-honored The Family Romanov and the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award-winning biography, The Lincolns, among others.
0 kommentar(er)
