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Anne Shelby

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Anne Shelby (born September 25, 1948) is an American writer of children's picture books.

Biography

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Early life and education

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Anne Gabbard was born on September 25, 1948, in Berea, Kentucky. Her parents were teachers. She attended Kentucky Southern in 1966 for one year before the college closed. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from St. Andrews College in 1970 and a Master of Arts degree from the University of Kentucky in 1981.[1][2]

She married Jimmy Godwin on December 26, 1968, and they divorced in 1972. She married Edmund Shelby, a teacher, on August 25, 1972. She has one child. She lives in Oneida, Kentucky.[2][1]

Career

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She has worked for the Appalachian Writers Workshop, the School for the Creative and Performing Arts in Lexington, KY, and for the gifted program at the University of Kentucky, Lexington.[2]

Three of Shelby's books have received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly or Kirkus Reviews: Homeplace (Orchard Books, 1995), The Someday House (Orchard Books, 1996), and The Man Who Lived in a Hollow Tree (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2009).[3][4][5] Homeplace was a Junior Library Guild selection.[2]

Selected works

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  • Waiting for Daylight: For Soprano and Orchestra, with Steve Rouse, Primal Press Publishing, 1997.
  • Appalachian Studies, Wind Publications, 2005.

Children's books

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  • We Keep a Store, illustrated by John Ward, Orchard Books, 1990.[6][7]
  • Potluck, illustrated by Irene Trivas, Orchard Books, 1991.[8]
  • What to Do about Pollution, illustrated by Irene Trivas, Orchard Books, 1993.[9]
  • Homeplace, illustrated by Wendy Anderson Halperin, Orchard Books, 1995.[10][4][11]
  • The Someday House, illustrated by Rosanne Litzinger. Orchard Books, 1996.[5][12][13]
  • The Adventures of Molly Whuppie and Other Appalachian Folktales, illustrated by Paula McArdle, University of North Carolina Press, 2007.[14]
  • The Man Who Lived in a Hollow Tree, illustrated by Cor Hazelar, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2009.[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Anne Shelby (1948-)." Something About the Author, edited by Alan Hedblad, vol. 121, Gale, 2001, pp. 152-164. Gale Literature: Something About the Author. Accessed 9 May 2023.
  2. ^ a b c d "Anne Shelby." Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors, Gale, 2010. Gale Literature Resource Center. Accessed 9 May 2023.
  3. ^ a b THE MAN WHO LIVED IN A HOLLOW TREE | Kirkus Reviews.
  4. ^ a b "Homeplace by Anne Shelby". www.publishersweekly.com. Retrieved 2023-05-10.
  5. ^ a b THE SOMEDAY HOUSE | Kirkus Reviews.
  6. ^ "Book Reviews, Sites, Romance, Fantasy, Fiction". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 2023-05-10.
  7. ^ "We Keep a Store by Anne Shelby". www.publishersweekly.com. Retrieved 2023-05-10.
  8. ^ POTLUCK | Kirkus Reviews.
  9. ^ "What to Do about Pollution-- by Anne Shelby". www.publishersweekly.com. Retrieved 2023-05-10.
  10. ^ HOMEPLACE | Kirkus Reviews.
  11. ^ "CHILDREN'S BOOKS; Bookshelf". The New York Times. 1995-06-11. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-05-10.
  12. ^ "The Someday House by Anne Shelby". www.publishersweekly.com. Retrieved 2023-05-10.
  13. ^ "Bookshelf". The New York Times. 1996-09-08. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-05-10.
  14. ^ THE ADVENTURES OF MOLLY WHUPPIE | Kirkus Reviews.


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