Grow juanita havill biography

  • Award-winning author Juanita Havill's story of a community garden in an urban neighborhood is told through the eyes of an impressionable girl in a series of.
  • Juanita Havill was born in Indiana and grew up in Illinois.
  • Havill began writing poems as a child and has had two books of her poetry published: I Heard It from Alice Zucchini, Poems about the Garden and Grow, A Novel in.

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    November 20, 2015
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    Writing as an Act of Discovery:
    A Conversation with Juanita Havill

    By Anna Olswanger

    Juanita Havill is the author of fifteen children's books, including Jamaica's Find, a Reading Rainbow Review Book, IRA-CBC Children's Choice, and Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award Winner; Jamaica Tag-Along, an American Bookseller "Pick of the Lists"; and Sato and the Elephants, an ALA Notable in the Field of Social Studies, which has been translated into five South African languages. She is also the editor of Booklove: Creating Good Books for Children in an Age that Values Neither.

    Havill grew up in Mount Carmel, Illinois, and after stints in France, Illinois, and Minnesota, now lives in Arizona with her husband and children. She spoke with Anna Olswanger at a Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators Conference in Los Angeles.

    ANNA OLSWANGER: When was your first book published?

    JUANITA HAVILL: I did a work-for-hire book in 1984. I did that with Parker Brothers. It wasn't really my book, in the sense that they give you character descriptions, plot outlines . . . and two weeks! So you write it up, send it in. They're very quick. I think it was publi

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    Juanita Havill (1949-) Biography

    Biographical and Critical Sources

    PERIODICALS

    Booklist, March 15, 1988; June 6, 1989; July, 1989; June 1, 1991; October 15, 1993, Hazel Rochman, review of Jamaica and Brianna, and Deborah Abbott, review of Sato and the Elephants, p. 452; June 1, 1994, Julie Corsaro, review of Jennifer, Too, p. 1820; July, 1995, Hazel Rochman, review of Jamaica's Blue Marker, p. 1883; February 15, 1999, Hazel Rochman, review of Jamaica and the Substitute Teacher, p. 1975; March 1, 2004, Carolyn Phelan, review of Eyes like Willy's, p. 1189.

    Horn Book, November-December, 1993, Maeve Visser Knoth, review of Jamaica and Brianna, p. 732; May, 1999, Terri Schmitz, review of Jamaica and the Substitute Teacher, p. 314.

    Hungry Mind Review, summer, 1992.

    Kirkus Reviews, February 15, 2002, review of Brianna, Jamaica, and the Dance of Spring, p. 257; May 15, 2004, review of Eyes like Willy's, p. 492.

    Publishers Weekly, May 30, 1986; February 24, 1989; January 18, 1991, p. 58; March 8, 1993, review of Kentucky Troll, p. 78; July 26, 1993, review of Jamaica and Brianna, p. 71.

    School Library Journal, April, 2002, Dorian Chong, review of Brianna, Jamaica, and the Dance of Spring, p. 110.

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