Anne Shelby
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Anne Shelby (born September 25, 1948) is an American writer of children's picture books.
Biography[edit]
Early life and education[edit]
Anne Gabbard was born on September 25, 1948, in Berea, Kentucky. Her parents were teachers. She attended Kentucky Southern in 1966 for one year before the college closed. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from St. Andrews College in 1970 and a Master of Arts degree from the University of Kentucky in 1981.[1][2]
She married Jimmy Godwin on December 26, 1968, and they divorced in 1972. She married Edmund Shelby, a teacher, on August 25, 1972. She has one child. She lives in Oneida, Kentucky.[2][1]
Career[edit]
She has worked for the Appalachian Writers Workshop, the School for the Creative and Performing Arts in Lexington, KY, and for the gifted program at the University of Kentucky, Lexington.[2]
Three of Shelby's books have received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly or Kirkus Reviews: Homeplace (Orchard Books, 1995), The Someday House (Orchard Books, 1996), and The Man Who Lived in a Hollow Tree (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2009).[3][4][5] Homeplace was a Junior Library Guild selection.[2]
Selected works[edit]
- Waiting for Daylight: For Soprano and Orchestra, with Steve Rouse, Primal Press Publishing, 1997.
- Appalachian Studies, Wind Publications, 2005.
Children's books[edit]
- We Keep a Store, illustrated by John Ward, Orchard Books, 1990.[6][7]
- Potluck, illustrated by Irene Trivas, Orchard Books, 1991.[8]
- What to Do about Pollution, illustrated by Irene Trivas, Orchard Books, 1993.[9]
- Homeplace, illustrated by Wendy Anderson Halperin, Orchard Books, 1995.[10][4][11]
- The Someday House, illustrated by Rosanne Litzinger. Orchard Books, 1996.[5][12][13]
- The Adventures of Molly Whuppie and Other Appalachian Folktales, illustrated by Paula McArdle, University of North Carolina Press, 2007.[14]
- The Man Who Lived in a Hollow Tree, illustrated by Cor Hazelar, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2009.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Anne Shelby (1948-)." Something About the Author, edited by Alan Hedblad, vol. 121, Gale, 2001, pp. 152-164. Gale Literature: Something About the Author. Accessed 9 May 2023.
- ^ a b c d "Anne Shelby." Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors, Gale, 2010. Gale Literature Resource Center. Accessed 9 May 2023.
- ^ a b THE MAN WHO LIVED IN A HOLLOW TREE | Kirkus Reviews.
- ^ a b "Homeplace by Anne Shelby". www.publishersweekly.com. Retrieved 2023-05-10.
- ^ a b THE SOMEDAY HOUSE | Kirkus Reviews.
- ^ "Book Reviews, Sites, Romance, Fantasy, Fiction". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 2023-05-10.
- ^ "We Keep a Store by Anne Shelby". www.publishersweekly.com. Retrieved 2023-05-10.
- ^ POTLUCK | Kirkus Reviews.
- ^ "What to Do about Pollution-- by Anne Shelby". www.publishersweekly.com. Retrieved 2023-05-10.
- ^ HOMEPLACE | Kirkus Reviews.
- ^ "CHILDREN'S BOOKS; Bookshelf". The New York Times. 1995-06-11. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-05-10.
- ^ "The Someday House by Anne Shelby". www.publishersweekly.com. Retrieved 2023-05-10.
- ^ "Bookshelf". The New York Times. 1996-09-08. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-05-10.
- ^ THE ADVENTURES OF MOLLY WHUPPIE | Kirkus Reviews.