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Susan Katz

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Born

Shillington, PA, The United States

Genre

Children's Books, Poetry

Member Since

January 2009

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Susan Katz is the Camp Fire Girl on the left in the photo, which is what she still looks like on the inside. On the outside, she's morphed into the author of eight children's books.

Her first book was a middle-grade novel, SNOWDROPS FOR COUSIN RUTH, winner of the Paterson Prize and a Publishers' Weekly Flying Start honor.

Her most recent books are THE PRESIDENT'S STUCK IN THE BATHTUB (Clarion Books, Feb., 2012), a Junior Library Guild selection, and the humorous science-fiction e-book, FLAT LIKE FRED. story of the boy who saved the Earth from alien tadpoles and the planet Bovine (where the cow who jumped over the moon landed) from its terrible mouse-elephant rampages.

Her picture book. OH, THEODORE! was an Oprah Pick, winner of a Utah Beehive ...more

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Susan Katz's Blog

Fictional Boy Runs Amok

Although I lead a very exciting life (Only yesterday, for example, I was leading a plumber down the basement stairs when the light went off. In the darkness, I descended seven steps at once, careened across the cellar, and crashed into a shelf of cardboard boxes, creating the first avalanche ever to occur on my road.), I have nonetheless managed to remain blog-less.

A discerning reader, however, mi Read more of this blog post »

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Published on November 17, 2011 08:07

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Susan Katz’s books

Average rating: 3.97 · 443 ratings · 111 reviews · 6 distinct works

	When the Shadbush Blooms 4.04 avg rating — 228 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Oh, Theodore! 3.97 avg rating — 158 ratings — published 2007	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Revolutionary Field Trip: Poems of Colonial America 3.80 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2004	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Looking for Jaguar: And Other Rain Forest Poems by Susan Katz (Goodreads Author), Lee Christiansen (Illustrations) 3.43 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Snowdrops for Cousin Ruth 4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mrs. Brown on Exhibit: And Other Museum Poems 3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2002	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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What's the Name o...: SOLVED. 90s Juvenile/ YA Fiction - A little girl won't speak after a tragic accident. Someone close to her died, possibly in a car accident. In the end some snowdrops bloom and she can speak again. [s]	4	21	Feb 09, 2023 09:40AM

Susan’s Quotes

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

tags: writing

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“You write not for children but for yourself. And if by good fortune children enjoy what you enjoy, why then you are a writer of children's books.”
― Arthur Ransome

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“I am almost inclined to set it up as a canon that a children's story which is enjoyed only by children is a bad children's story.”
― C.S. Lewis, On Three Ways of Writing for Children

tags: childrens-books

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“Good stories are not written, they are rewritten”
― Phyllis A. Whitney

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“The world is not divided up into bits and classified for those from four to six, from six to eight, from eight to twelve and so on through our three score and ten years, with a special bit for octogenarians, but the same world for all of us, undivided, its riches spread out for us to choose from according to our ages in spirit rather than our ages in years”
― Dorothy Lathrop

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