Zilpha Keatley Snyder (1927–2014)
Autor(a) de The Egypt Game
About the Author
Zilpha Keatley Snyder was born in Lemoore, California on May 11, 1927. She received a B.A. from Whittier College in 1948. While ultimately planning to be a writer, after graduation she decided to teach school temporarily. However, she found teaching to be an extremely rewarding experience and mostrar mais taught in the upper elementary grades for a total of nine years. After all of her children were in school, she began to think of writing again. Her first book, Season of Ponies, was published in 1964. She wrote more than 40 books during her lifetime including The Trespassers, Gib Rides Home, Gib and the Gray Ghost, and William's Midsummer Dreams. She has won numerous awards including three Newbery Honor books for The Egypt Game, The Headless Cupid and The Witches of Worm and the 1995 John and Patricia Beatty Award for Cat Running. She died of complications from a stroke on October 08, 2014 at the age of 87. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Séries
Obras por Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Associated Works
Dragons & Dreams: A Collection of New Fantasy and Science Fiction Stories (1986) — Contribuidor — 41 exemplares
Treasure Island Trek; Children's Author & Illustrator Festival Saturday Oct, 18, 1969 — Contribuidor, algumas edições — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1927-05-11
- Data de falecimento
- 2014-10-07
- Localização do túmulo
- Pierce Brothers Santa Paula Cemetery, Santa Paula, California, USA
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Lemoore, California, USA
- Local de falecimento
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Causa da morte
- complications from a stroke
- Locais de residência
- Ventura, California, USA
Sonoma County, California, USA
New York City, New York, USA
Marin County, California, USA - Educação
- Whittier College (BA | 1948)
- Ocupações
- teacher
young adult writer
children's book author - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Lewis Carroll Shelf Award (1970)
Newbery Honor (1968, 1972, 1973)
Membros
Discussions
YA Fiction - boy rubs potion on shoulders & grows wings em Name that Book (Março 2012)
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1990s (1)
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Five star books (1)
Cats in Fiction (1)
Witchy Fiction (1)
Elementary Reads (1)
Best Dog Stories (1)
Books with Twins (4)
Newbery Adjacent (4)
1970s (4)
1960s (5)
Elevenses (2)
1980s (1)
Ghosts (1)
Prémios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 51
- Also by
- 3
- Membros
- 13,033
- Popularidade
- #1,787
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Críticas
- 253
- ISBN
- 396
- Línguas
- 8
- Marcado como favorito
- 31
- Pedras de toque
- 232
Although there are some flaws in Until the Celebration, as well as in The Green Sky Trilogy in general, I nevertheless enjoyed this conclusion to Snyder's story immensely. As with its predecessors, I found the world of the Kindar and Erdlings to be a fascinating one, appreciating all of the details regarding customs, rituals and beliefs, and the way these varied between the two groups. I thought Snyder did an excellent job depicting the disillusionment experienced by the Kindar, when some of the central tenets of their belief system—the evil nature of the Pash-shan, the infallibility and goodness of the Ol-zhaan—fell away. The way in which they subsequently latched on to the two children, Pomma and Teera, as figures with spiritual meaning, was astutely captured, revealing the way in which people need and desire symbols of hope and strength. Raamo's perceptive understanding that there is a danger in this veneration of the children may be proved correct in the end, but it also reinforces the original idea, that belief and ritual, especially of a spiritual and/or religious nature, is often necessary for peaceful and just societies. I was also greatly impressed by the storytelling decision Snyder made, in
All of this being said, despite my great enjoyment of and appreciation for this series, I must admit that it suffers from some structural issues that prevent it from being quite as outstanding as it would otherwise have been. I think the trouble starts in the second book, And All Between, which covers much of the same material as in the first book, Below the Root. While I didn't dislike this "repetition" as much as some other online reviewers—I enjoyed seeing some of the same events from the Erdling perspective—given the fact that I found this third book somewhat rushed, covering too much in too few pages, I think that either this decision in the second book to go back and retell part of the story ought to have been reconsidered, or that this third book ought to have been expanded, and made into two books. There was simply too much going on here, and not enough attention paid to any of it, to truly satisfy. I also felt that the conclusion of the book was somehow off. Raamo's