CHILDREN'S BOOKS

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"Complex issues are simply and poetically dealt with in Michelson's tales"
-Bulletin of The Center for Children’s Books

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Stories for Children and Other People
Sydney Taylor Award - Gold Medal As Good As Anybody	Publishers Weekly Best Children's Book 2007 Tuttle's Red Barn	National Jewish Book Award finalist Across the Alley
2006 Paterson Prize Finalist Happy Feet	Skipping Stones Multicultural Honor Too Young for Yiddish	Jewish Book Council Book of the Month Grandpa's Gamble

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Poetry for Teens, Juvenile Delinquents and Immature Adults

"Michelson’s sly wit makes his books ones that children and adults can enjoy together."
-Publisher’s Weekly

Animals Anonymous

Poetry for Children and Other People

Sydney Taylor Award - Silver Medal

A is for Abraham
A Jewish Family Alphabet

Oh No, Not Ghosts!

Ten Times Better

A Book of Flies: Real of Otherwise

Animals That Ought To Be

Did You Say Ghosts?

"Michelson’s poems—jaunty, rhythmic rhymes-- lie lightly on the tongue and ear… young readers get just the kind of details they will relish (and the reactions of squeamish parental readers will provide an added bonus)."
- Horn Book

Richard Michelson writes both heartwarming, historical stories, and imaginative, word loving poetry collections. His first children’s book was listed by the New Yorker as a Best Book of 1993. Subsequent books have received a Children’s Book Committee Book of the Year, a Jewish Book Council Book of the Month, and a Skipping Stones Magazine Multicultural Honor Award. Three of his books have been named to The New York Public Library’s annual list of “Best Children’s Books for Reading and Sharing."

Forthcoming Children’s Books:

Busing Brewster, illustrated by R.G. Roth (Knopf, 2010).

Lipman Pike: First professional Baseball Player and Jewish Home Run King,
illustrated by Zak Pullen (Sleeping Bear, 2011)

County Fair, illustrated by Mary Azarian (Putnam, 2012)

Valley Beth Shalom Day School - April 2010