| Birth date | March 18, 1955 (age 71) |
|---|---|
| Birth place | Ann Arbor, Michigan, US |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Genre | Picture books, chapter books, novels |
| Notableworks | So B. It, Jumping the Scratch |
| Spouse | Jim Fyfe |
| Website | sarahweeks.com |
Sarah Weeks (born March 18, 1955) is an American writer of children's books, perhaps best known for the novel So B. It which has won several juvenile literature awards. In 2007 it won the Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award[1] and William Allen White Children's Book Award.
Biography
Sarah Weeks was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1955, the daughter of an English professor. She has a brother and a sister. When she was a little girl, the things she liked to do best were playing music and writing. When she grew up, she went to New York City, married, and had two sons, Gabriel and Nathaniel.
Selected works
Chapter books
- Oggie Cooder series
- Oggie Cooder
- Oggie Cooder, Party Animal
- Misadventures of Guy Strang series
- Regular Guy (Laura Geringer/HarperCollins, 1999)
- Guy Time
- My Guy
- Guy Wire
- Boyds Will Be Boyds series
- Beware of Mad Dog
- Get Well Soon or Else!
- Danger! Boys Dancing!
- Fink's Funk!
- Other
- Tripping Over the Lunch Lady and Other School Stories
- The Little Factory
Picture books
- Hurricane City (HarperCollins, 1993), illustrated by James Warhola[2]
Novels
- As Simple as it Seems
- So B. It
- Jumping the Scratch
- Up All Night
- PIE
- Honey
- Save Me a Seat
- Soof
References
- ^ Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award
- ^ "Hurricane city". Library of Congress Catalog Record. Retrieved 2014-02-13.