By: Aly Marx This week’s author spotlight is about Katherine Applegate. She was born on October 9, 1956, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Along with her husband and three children, she also has two cats, named Lightning and Scooter, and one dog named Stan, who have inspired characters in some of her books. She has also lived in several places, including Illinois, Minnesota, Florida, Texas, Italy, North Carolina, and California. A fun fact about Applegate is that popcorn is her favorite food. Katherine Applegate has written MANY books. Some of her popular novels include the Animorphs series (published from 1996-2001), Home of the Brave (2007), the Roscoe Riley Rules series (2008-2009), Crenshaw (2015), Wishtree (2017), the Endling series (2018-2021), The One and Only Ivan (2012), and its sequel, The One and Only Bob (2020). She also has published a few picture books, containing The Buffalo Storm (2007), Ivan: The Remarkable True Story of the Shopping Mall Gorilla (2014), and Sometimes You Fly (2018). Some of her upcoming publications are Doggo and Pupper (coming out March 23, 2021), and Willodeen (coming out September 7, 2021). In 1997, she won the Best New Children's Book Series Award for Publishers Weekly. Additionally, in 2008, she won the Golden Kite Award for Fiction for Home of the Brave, and in 2013, she won the John Newbery Medal for The One and Only Ivan. Many of Applegate’s stories have become #1 New York Times bestselling books, but not without hard work and perseverance! Applegate has had many pen names besides Katherine Applegate, such as K.A. Applegate, L.E. Blair, Katherine Kendall, Pat Pollari, A.R. Plumb, and Beth Kincaid. As a child, Applegate did not like to read. However, once she read Charlotte’s Web, she began to enjoy the activity. Once that happened, she started to enjoy writing more, too! At the beginning of Applegate’s writing career, she wrote many romance novels, followed by many thriller books. Eventually, she moved on to a more kit-lit area of writing. Many of Applegate’s works are from the perspective of non-human objects or animals, such as a gorilla, a tree, and a dog. She says she likes to write from the perspective of non-human objects or animals because you can be more creative and look at the world from a whole different view. She also likes it because she gets to do lots of research and because she gets to challenge herself. She says that her favorite part of writing is getting to meet young readers and being able to inspire them and get inspired from them. Applegate advises other writers to “Be persistent… [she] didn’t become a published author until [she] was in [her] 30s”. She says that she almost gave up and threw away the manuscript for The One and Only Ivan, but she pushed through, published it, and it succeeded! Katherine Applegate has created many popular stories for readers of all ages. Be on the lookout for her upcoming books! Author: Katherine Applegate Website: https://katherineapplegate.com/ Sources:https://www.bookseriesinorder.com/katherine-k-a-applegate/,https://katherineapplegate.com/about, & https://kids.kiddle.co/Katherine_Applegate. Comments are closed.
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