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Berthe Amoss


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New Orleans, LA, The United States
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Children's Books


Born and raised in New Orleans, Berthe Amoss has never stopped writing about her home city. She is the author and illustrator of twenty-eight children's and young adult books. Her picture book The Cajun Gingerbread Boy won a Children's Choice Award and The Chalk Cross was a finalist for the Edgar Allen Poe Award. ...more

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Average rating: 3.94 · 390 ratings · 53 reviews · 51 distinct works • Similar authors
Lost Magic
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4.08 avg rating — 111 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions
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Secret Lives
3.71 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 1979 — 7 editions
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The Cajun Gingerbread Boy
4.23 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1995 — 6 editions
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Writing and Illustrating Ch...
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3.98 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 1995 — 3 editions
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The Chalk Cross
3.29 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1976 — 4 editions
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Old Hasdrubal and the Pirates
4.43 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1971 — 4 editions
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The Three Little Cajun Pigs
3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1999
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The great sea monster: Or, ...
4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1975 — 3 editions
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The marvelous catch of Old ...
4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1970 — 4 editions
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Mischief and Malice
2.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions
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