Linda Ravin Lodding
Linda Ravin Lodding is an American/Swedish author with 8 published children’s books translated into multiple languages.
In 2012 she was awarded the Comstock-Gág Read Aloud book award.[1] for the book The Busy Life of Ernestine Buckmeister.[2]
Biography[edit]
Ravin Lodding is originally from New York, but has spent the past 25 years in Austria, The Netherlands and now lives in Stockholm, Sweden.[3][4]
Ravin Lodding has an BA in English from Barnard College, Columbia University, and an MBA from Stern School of Business, New York University.[5]
Ravin Lodding works as Head of Communications for Global Child Forum, a Swedish Royal foundation with a focus on children's rights within the corporate sector.[5]
Publications[edit]
Her first book, The Busy Life of Ernestine Buckmeister was read online in 2022 by Connie Britton on the Sag-Aftra foundation's children’s literacy website, Storyline Online[6] [7]
The book A Gift for Mama was selected as a notable book in the New York Times.[8]
————— (2023). Flipflopi: how a boat made from flip-flops is helping to save the ocean. Illustrated by Michael Machira Mwangi. Minneapolis: Beaming Books. ISBN 978-1-506-48640-6. OCLC 1332780980.[9][10]
————— (2017). Wakey, Eakey, Elephant!. Illustrated by Michael Robertson. New York: Sterling's Children's Books. ISBN 978-1-454-91999-5. OCLC 973480580.
————— (2017). Little Red Riding Sheep. Illustrated by Cale Atkinson. New York: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing. ISBN 978-1-481-45748-4. OCLC 1142696784.[11][12]
————— (2017). The Queen Is Coming to Tea. Illustrated by Constanze Von Kitzing. Naperville, Illinois: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky. ISBN 978-1-492-60759-5. OCLC 973327244.[13][14]
————— (2016). Painting Pepette. Illustrated by Claire Fletcher. New York: Little Bee Books. ISBN 978-1-499-80136-1. OCLC 923565312.[15][16]
————— (2017). Hold that thought, Milton!. Illustrated by Ross Collins. Bath: Parragon Book Ltd. ISBN 978-1-472-33199-1. OCLC 980362056.
————— (2014). A Gift For Mama. Illustrated by Jay Alison. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 978-0-385-75331-9. OCLC 829645892.[17][18]
————— (2011). The busy life of Ernestine Buckmeister. Illustrated by Suzanne Beaky. Brooklyn, NY: Flashlight Press. ISBN 978-1-936261-65-9. OCLC 905228012.[19][20]
References[edit]
- ^ "Comstock Read Aloud Book Award Program MSUM CMC". www.mnstate.edu.
- ^ "Comstock-Gág Read Aloud Winners". 2012.
- ^ "The Stockholm Writers Festival". 24 December 2021.
- ^ "The Stockholm Writers Group".
- ^ a b "About Global Child Forum". Global Child Forum. Retrieved 2023-04-06.
- ^ "The SAG-AFTRA Foundation's award-winning children's literacy website, Storyline Online". Sag-Aftra Foundation. 5 July 2014.
- ^ "The Busy Life of Ernestine Buckmeister read by Connie Britton". SchoolTube - Safe video sharing and management for K12.
- ^ Smith, Sarah Harrison (7 May 2014). "Mother Love". The New York Times.
- ^ "Publisher Weekly, Flipflopi: How a Boat Made from Flip-Flops Is Helping to Save the Ocean".
- ^ "Books remind kids they are capable of many things". March 19, 2023.
- ^ "Publisher weekly, Little Red Riding Sheep".
- ^ Coats, Karen (2017). "Little Red Riding Sheep by Linda Ravin Lodding (review)". Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books. 70 (11): 502. doi:10.1353/bcc.2017.0523. S2CID 201707234. Project MUSE 663466.
- ^ "Kirkus Reviews, The Queen Is Coming To Tea".
- ^ "Publisher Weekly, The Queen Is Coming to Tea".
- ^ "Kirkus Reviews, Painting Pepette".
- ^ "Publisher Weekly, Painting Pepette".
- ^ "Kirkus Reviews, A Gift For Mama".
- ^ "Publisher Weekly, A Gift For Mama".
- ^ "Kirkus Reviews, Busy Life Ernestine Buckmeister".
- ^ Solloway, Sharon G. (March 2012). "The busy life of Ernestine Buckmeister". International Journal of Play. 1 (1): 105–107. doi:10.1080/21594937.2012.659859. S2CID 178474339.
External links[edit]
A Peek at the Creative Space of Linda Ravin Lodding