In Our Mothers' House by Patricia Polacco

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(Bowker Author Biography) - biography from Thank You, Mr.Dealing with censorship challenges at your library or need to get prepared for them? Visit our Fight Censorship page for easy-to-access resources. Chew and The Blessing Cup made The New York Times Best Seller List. In 1996, she won the Jo Osborne Award for Humor in Children's Literature. She has won Parent's Choice Honors for Some Birthday in 1991, the video Dream Keeper in 1997 and Thank You Mr. Katz and Tush for its effective contribution to peace and social justice. League for Peace and Freedom Honor award for Mrs. In 1993, she won the Jane Adams Peace Assoc. She also won the Golden Kite Award for Illustration from the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators for Chicken Sunday in 1992, as well as the Boston Area Educators for Social Responsibility Children's Literature and Social Responsibility Award. She was inducted into the Author's Hall of Fame by the Santa Clara Reading Council in 1990, and received the Commonwealth Club of California's Recognition of Excellence that same year for Babushka's Doll, and again in 1992 for Chicken Sunday. Polacco has won the 1988 Sydney Taylor Book Award for The Keeping Quilt, and the 1989 International Reading Association Award for Rechenka's Eggs. By the time she returned home the following week, she had sold just about everything. She submitted everything she had to more than one house. Her mother paid for a trip to New York, where the two visited 16 publishers in one week. There she learned how to put together a dummy and get a story into the form of a children's picture book. She began writing down the stories that were in her head, and was then encouraged to join the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. She didn't start writing children's books until she was 41 years old. After college, she restored ancient pieces of art for museums. She then set off for Monash University, Mulgrave, Australia and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia where she received a Ph.D in Art History, Emphasis on Iconography.

She attended Oakland Tech High School in Oakland, California before heading off to the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, then Laney Community College in Oakland. Patricia Polacco was born in Lansing, Michigan on July 11, 1944.

In Our Mothers' House by Patricia Polacco