American writer of children's books
Deborah Hopkinson
Born (1952-02-04 ) February 4, 1952 (age 72) Occupation Author Spouse Andrew D. Thomas Children 2 Website
deborahhopkinson .com
Deborah Hopkinson (born February 4, 1952)
[1] is an American writer of over seventy children's books, primarily
historical fiction ,
nonfiction and
picture books .
Personal life and education
Hopkinson was born February 4, 1952, in
Lowell, Massachusetts
[2] to Russell W. and Gloria D. Hopkinson.
[1]
She received a
Bachelor of Arts from the
University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1973 and a
Master of Arts from the
University of Hawaiʻi in 1978.
[1]
Hopkinson is married to Andrew D. Thomas, and the couple has two children: Rebekah and Dimitri.
[1] She presently lives near Portland, Oregon.
[3]
Career
Before writing full-time, Hopkinson worked as a philanthropic fundraiser with
Oregon State University ,
Whitman College , and the
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa .
[4] From 1981 to 1984, she served as the marketing director for the Manoa Valley Theater in
Honolulu .
[4] Afterwards, she worked as a development director at the
University of Hawaiʻi Foundation (1985 to 1989), then the
East–West Center in Honolulu (1989 to 1994).
[4] For the next decade, she was the director of grants at
Whitman College in
Walla Walla, Washington , after which she served as the director for foundation relations for the
Oregon State University Foundation in
Corvallis, Oregon .
[4]
Hopkinson published her first book in 1993 and has since published more than 70 books for children, including the Sibert Honor title, Titanic: Voices from the Disaster.
Awards and honors
Twenty-three of Hopkinson's books are
Junior Library Guild selections:
A Band of Angels (May 1995)
[5]
Birdie’s Lighthouse (September 1997)
[6]
Bluebird Summer (June 2001)
[7]
Fannie in the Kitchen (September 2001)
[8]
Girl Wonder (May 2003)
[9]
Apples to Oregon (November 2004)
[10]
Up Before Daybreak (August 2006)
[11]
Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek (November 2008)
[12]
Home on the Range (January 2009)
[13]
Stagecoach Sal (February 2009)
[14]
A Boy Called Dickens (February 2012)
[15]
Titanic (April 2012)
[16]
Annie and Helen (November 2012)
[17]
Knit Your Bit (April 2013)
[18]
The Great Trouble (January 2014)
[19]
A Bandit’s Tale (June 2016)
[20]
Steamboat School (August 2016)
[21]
Dive! World War II Stories of Sailors & Submarines in the Pacific (November 2016)
[22]
D-Day: The World War II Invasion That Changed History (October 2018)
[23]
Carter Reads the Newspaper (February 2019)
[24]
Deadliest Hurricanes Then and Now (April 2022)
[25]
The Story of a Story (June 2022)
[26]
The Deadliest Fires Then and Now (October 2022)
[27]
In 2012, Titanic: Voices from the Disaster was named one of the best nonfiction children's books of the year by
The Horn Book Magazine .
[28]
In 2017,
Booklist included Steamboat School on their "Top 10 Historical Fiction for Youth" list.
[29]
In 2019, Carter Reads the Newspaper was named one of the best books of the year by the
Chicago Public Library and the
New York Public Library .
[24]
The Story of a Story was included in the Cooperative Children’s Book Center Choices 2021.
[30]
Selected books
Picture books
Early Readers
Birdie’s Lighthouse , illustrated by
Kimberly Bulcken Root (1997)
Maria’s Comet , illustrated by
Deborah Lanino (1999)
A Band of Angels , illustrated by
Raúl Colón (2002)
Girl Wonder: A Baseball Story in Nine Innings , illustrated by
Terry Widener (2003)
Apples to Oregon: Being the (Slightly) True Narrative of How a Brave Pioneer Father Brought Apples, Peaches, Pears, Plums, Grapes, and Cherries (and Children) Across the Plains , illustrated by
Nancy Carpenter (2004)
Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek: A Tall Thin Tale , illustrated by John Hendrix (2008)
Annie and Helen , illustrated by
Raúl Colón (2012)
Knit Your Bit: A World War I Story , illustrated by
Steven Guarnaccia (2013)
Philippe Cousteau illustrated by
Meilo So (2016)
Beatrix Potter and the Unfortunate Tale of a Borrowed Guinea Pig , illustrated by
Charlotte Voake (2016)
A Letter to My Teacher , illustrated by
Nancy Carpenter (2017)
Under the Bodhi Tree: A Story of the Buddha , illustrated by
Kailey Whitman (2018)
Ordinary, Extraordinary Jane Austen: The Story of Six Novels, Three Notebooks, a Writing Box, and One Clever Girl , illustrated by
Qin Leng (2018)
Butterflies Belong Here: A Story of One Idea, Thirty Kids, and a World of Butterflies , illustrated by
Meilo So (2020)
My Little Golden Book about Dolly Parton (2021)
My Little Golden Book about Betty White (2021)
The Story of a Story , illustrated by
Hadley Hooper (2021)
Cinderella and a Mouse Called Fred , illustrated by
Paul O. Zelinsky (2023)
Happy Earth Day! (2023)
Middle Grade
Hear My Sorrow: The Diary of Angela Denoto, A Shirtwaist Worker, New York City, 1909 (2004)
The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel (2013)
Courage & Defiance: Stories of Spies, Saboteurs, and Survivors in World War II Denmark (2015)
A Bandit’s Tale: The Muddled Misadventures of a Pickpocket (2016)
Dive!: World War II Stories of Sailors & Submarines in the Pacific (2016)
D‑Day: The World War II Invasion That Changed History (2018)
The Deadliest Diseases Then and Now (2021)
We Must Not Forget: Holocaust Stories of Survival and Resistance (2021)
The Deadliest Fires Then and Now (2022)
The Deadliest Hurricanes Then and Now (2022)
See also
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"Bluebird Summer by Deborah Hopkinson" .
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"Fannie in the Kitchen by Deborah Hopkinson" .
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"Girl Wonder: A Baseball Story in Nine Innings by Deborah Hopkinson" .
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"Up Before Daybreak: Cotton and People in America by Deborah Hopkinson" .
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"Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek: A Tall, Thin Tale (Introducing His Forgotten Frontier Friend) by Deborah Hopkinson" .
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"Home on the Range: John A. Lomax and His Cowboy Songs by Deborah Hopkinson" .
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"Stagecoach Sal by Deborah Hopkinson" .
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"A Boy Called Dickens by Deborah Hopkinson" .
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"Dive! World War II Stories of Sailors & Submarines in the Pacific by Deborah Hopkinson" .
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"D-Day: The World War II Invasion That Changed History by Deborah Hopkinson" .
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"Carter Reads the Newspaper by Deborah Hopkinson" .
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"Deadliest Hurricanes Then and Now: The Deadliest #2 by Deborah Hopkinson" .
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"The Story of a Story by Deborah Hopkinson" .
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