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John Coy

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John Coy is the author of young adult novels, the 4 for 4 middle-grade series, and fiction and nonfiction picture books. John has received numerous awards for his work including a Marion Vannett Ridgway Award for best first picture book, a Charlotte Zolotow Honor, Bank Street College Best Book of the Year, Notable Book for a Global Society, and the Burr/Warzalla Award for Distinguished Achievement in Children’s Literature. He lives in Minneapolis and visits schools around the world.

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John Coy Do something physical: walk, swim, run, play some basketball. New ideas will emerge to write down.
John Coy My two favorites are making up things and getting paid for that and getting to visit students and teachers in schools around the world.
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“Does air need us?
No.
Do plants need us?
No.
Does water need us?
No.
Do we need them?
Absolutely.”
John Coy, If We Were Gone: Imagining the World Without People

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