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Patricia Polacco

Autor(a) de Thank You, Mr. Falker

78+ Works 44,325 Membros 2,553 Críticas 29 Favorited

About the Author

Patricia Polacco was born in Lansing, Michigan on July 11, 1944. She attended Oakland Tech High School in Oakland, California before heading off to the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, then Laney Community College in Oakland. She then set off for Monash University, Mulgrave, mostrar mais Australia and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia where she received a Ph.D in Art History, Emphasis on Iconography. After college, she restored ancient pieces of art for museums. She didn't start writing children's books until she was 41 years old. She began writing down the stories that were in her head, and was then encouraged to join the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. There she learned how to put together a dummy and get a story into the form of a children's picture book. Her mother paid for a trip to New York, where the two visited 16 publishers in one week. She submitted everything she had to more than one house. By the time she returned home the following week, she had sold just about everything. Polacco has won the 1988 Sydney Taylor Book Award for The Keeping Quilt, and the 1989 International Reading Association Award for Rechenka's Eggs. She was inducted into the Author's Hall of Fame by the Santa Clara Reading Council in 1990, and received the Commonwealth Club of California's Recognition of Excellence that same year for Babushka's Doll, and again in 1992 for Chicken Sunday. She also won the Golden Kite Award for Illustration from the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators for Chicken Sunday in 1992, as well as the Boston Area Educators for Social Responsibility Children's Literature and Social Responsibility Award. In 1993, she won the Jane Adams Peace Assoc. and Women's Intl. League for Peace and Freedom Honor award for Mrs. Katz and Tush for its effective contribution to peace and social justice. She has won Parent's Choice Honors for Some Birthday in 1991, the video Dream Keeper in 1997 and Thank You Mr. Falker in 1998. In 1996, she won the Jo Osborne Award for Humor in Children's Literature. Her titles The Art of Miss. Chew and The Blessing Cup made The New York Times Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras por Patricia Polacco

Thank You, Mr. Falker (1998) 3,564 exemplares
Thunder Cake (1990) 2,924 exemplares
Pink and Say (1994) 2,779 exemplares
The Keeping Quilt (1988) 2,748 exemplares
Chicken Sunday (1992) 2,671 exemplares
Mrs. Katz and Tush (1992) 1,771 exemplares
The bee tree (1993) 1,492 exemplares
Babushka's Doll (1990) 1,477 exemplares
My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother (1994) 1,466 exemplares
Rechenka's Eggs (1656) 1,356 exemplares
The Junkyard Wonders (2010) 1,280 exemplares
Just Plain Fancy (1990) 1,255 exemplares
Mr. Lincoln's Way (2001) 1,235 exemplares
The Butterfly (2000) 1,192 exemplares
John Philip Duck (2004) 790 exemplares
The Trees of the Dancing Goats (1996) 767 exemplares
Emma Kate (2005) 752 exemplares
Christmas Tapestry (2002) 729 exemplares
For the Love of Autumn (2008) 711 exemplares
Babushka Baba Yaga (1993) 669 exemplares
When Lightning Comes in a Jar (2002) 600 exemplares
An Orange for Frankie (2004) 575 exemplares
Mrs. Mack (1998) 513 exemplares
In Our Mothers' House (1967) 475 exemplares
Some Birthday! (1991) 475 exemplares
Meteor! (1987) 453 exemplares
The Graves Family (2003) 434 exemplares
Welcome Comfort (1999) 405 exemplares
Betty Doll (2001) 386 exemplares
My Ol' Man (1995) 376 exemplares
The Lemonade Club (2007) 347 exemplares
Fiona's Lace (2014) 323 exemplares
Picnic at Mudsock Meadow (1992) 310 exemplares
G is for Goat (2003) 301 exemplares
Luba and the Wren (1999) 292 exemplares
Appelemando's Dreams (1991) 279 exemplares
Tikvah Means Hope (1615) 278 exemplares
I Can Hear the Sun (1996) 269 exemplares
The Art of Miss Chew (2012) 258 exemplares
An A From Miss Keller (2015) 255 exemplares
The Blessing Cup (2013) 243 exemplares
Bully (2012) 243 exemplares
January's Sparrow (2009) 241 exemplares
Just in Time, Abraham Lincoln (2011) 224 exemplares
Clara and Davie (2014) 221 exemplares
Mommies Say Shhh (2005) 220 exemplares
Bun Bun Button (2011) 218 exemplares
Something About Hensley's (2006) 213 exemplares
The Graves Family Goes Camping (2005) 202 exemplares
Babushka's Mother Goose (1995) 192 exemplares
Uncle Vova's Tree (1989) 191 exemplares
Oh, Look! (2004) 187 exemplares
Someone for Mr. Sussmann (2008) 178 exemplares
Ginger and Petunia (2007) 176 exemplares
Tucky Jo and Little Heart (2015) 170 exemplares
Gifts of the Heart (2013) 151 exemplares
In Enzo's Splendid Garden (1997) 139 exemplares
Firetalking (1994) 134 exemplares
Mr. Wayne's Masterpiece (2014) 121 exemplares
The Mermaid's Purse (2016) 100 exemplares
Holes in the Sky (2018) 74 exemplares
Remembering Vera (2017) 70 exemplares
The Bravest Man in the World (2019) 61 exemplares
Because of Thursday (2016) 60 exemplares
Sticks and Stones (2020) 44 exemplares
Palace of Books (2023) 44 exemplares
Still Firetalking (2014) 26 exemplares
Patricia Polacco: Dream Keeper (1990) 4 exemplares

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This is a touching memoir of a girl who is put in a special education classroom. She faces bullying and isolation but finds community in her classroom. Sensitive topics like bullying, name calling(R-word), and death of a classmate. I would not use as the content is outdated(3-5th).
 
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zrobinson | 147 outras críticas | Mar 18, 2024 |
I am drawn to the works of this artist. Each book tells a story from her young life. Patricia Polacco weaves very poignant stories of lessons learned from her childhood. While the illustrations seem large and unartistic, still, I am impressed that each book is rendered with facial expressions that follow the story. Each character is drawn with the emotion that accompanies the feeling.

This is yet another book in which the author focuses on the teachers who made a difference in her life. In this book, Miss Keller is one of those teachers we all may have had in school. This is a teacher who pushes her students to write to the best of what she expects, a story with feeling, meaning and something that grabs the reader to continue finish the work.

This is a teacher who may scare most students because she is very blunt about her expectations, and calls out the student in class to express what is lacking. In turn, this helps others understand what is needed to qualify for an A. And, rumor has it that Miss "Killer Keller" never gives an A to any student.

No matter how hard she tries, Trica cannot write to Ms Keller's standards. Frustrated, Trica is disappointed and takes the admonishments hard. Then, when her beloved neighborhood man, known as "Pop," dies, Trica has the courage and the depth of meaning to write what is needed for an A.

Writing from experience of grief, love and the soul retching feeling of losing a wonderful friend who has impacted on her life, Trica is now able to write from her pain and express the love felt for a man who impacted and helped so many. Cookies were baked, stories were told, and a seat on the steps when a listening ear is needed. Pop listened to Trica's depiction of this teacher as the meanest. Later, he told the story of how Miss Keller mentored his son, and later in life paid his college tuition.

When Miss Keller tells her to bring a thesaurus to school and to look up the overused word "love." Pop was helpful in providing a thesaurus to Trica. Later, when the assignment to interview an older person was given to the class, Pop was the subject of her asssignment. Telling her the story of his son and how hard he worked for Miss Keller and how assignments were picked apart and made to work over and over until he got it right.

Her ability and caring to send Pop's son to college, changed his life. He wrote for many of the biggest newspapers, and received a Pulitzer Prize for writing. This is the story of Miss Keller and her devotion to her class members.

Tragically, Pop died. Through her grief, Trica now wrote with depth of feeling, and she received an A for her personal narrative.
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Whisper1 | 14 outras críticas | Mar 16, 2024 |
A group of outsiders who are outcasts because of disabilities. The teacher inspires the class to band together. A child ends up passing away and they name the plane after them.
I would use this in fourth and fifth grade. Also to teach teachers. Love it.
 
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stewartj22 | 147 outras críticas | Mar 15, 2024 |
This book followed a group of "misfit" students with different abilities and strengths. It showed how students band together and become lifelong friends, and goes through deep themes of bullying, loss of a student, and believing in yourself even when other people don't. It is a true story and will bring up some deep emotions, both good and sad.
I would use this book in 3rd grade and up. It is important to know your students and make sure that you are not presenting these things to students who are going through losses of their own. But it's also important to talk about these important topics.… (mais)
 
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mmulvany22 | 147 outras críticas | Mar 15, 2024 |

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Obras
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Membros
44,325
Popularidade
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Avaliação
½ 4.3
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2,553
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