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Children's Author/Illustrator Biographies
Scieszka, Jon
Sept 8, 1954 -
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2009 Ludington Give Winner
SOURCE CITATION
"Jon Scieszka." Major Authors and Illustrators for Descendants and Countrified Adults, Ordinal ed., 8 vols. Hard blow Group, 2002. Reproduced gauzy Biography Ingenuity Center. Town Hills, Mich.: Thomson Hard blow. 2007.
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BIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY
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Jon Scieszka Biography
Jon Scieszka – American author, b. 1954
Jon Scieszka enters classic fairy tales, turns them upside down, and exits with a smirk What remains is hilarious buffoonery within these energetic, yet sophisticated parodies.
Born in Flint, Michigan, and raised in a large family, Jon Scieszka was educated at Albion College and received a master’s degree from the writing program at Columbia University. As an elementary school teacher, Scieszka found inspiration for his lessons by rewriting fairy tales; the lessons, in turn, led him to write successful stories offering fresh perspectives on dusty old tales. Although publishers once thought them too sophisticated for children, Scieszka’s stories now arouse endless laughter from an enchanted young audience.
His first book, The True Story of the Three Little Pigs (1989), is a delicious retelling of the famous tale. Narrator Alexander T. Wolf desperately defends his bad rap by arguing that he was framed. With prim spectacles and a proper bow tie, A. Wolf pleads that he was innocently borrowing a cup of sugar to bake a cake for dear granny, when he was suddenly seized by a case of the sneezes that left him huffing and puffing. Is he innocent? Perhaps not, yet this comic perspective sheds new light on
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Jon Scieszka was born in Flint, Michigan on September 8, 1954. It was a Wednesday. Right around lunchtime.
He is the second-oldest, and nicest, of six Scieszka boys. No girls.
His mother, Shirley, worked as a registered nurse.
His dad, Louis, was an elementary school principal at Freeman Elementary.
His dad's parents, Michael and Anna, came to America from Poland. "Scieszka" is a word in Polish. It means "path."
Jon’s Parents & Grandparents
Jon went to Culver Military Academy for high school. He had some spectacular teachers there, and became Lieutenant Scieszka.
Jon thought about being a doctor and studied both Science and English at Albion College in Albion, Michigan. He graduated in 1976, lived in Detroit, then moved to Brooklyn, NY to write instead. He earned his MFA in Fiction from Columbia University in New York in 1980, then painted apartments.
Not knowing what he was getting into, Jon applied for a teaching job at an elementary school called The Day School in New York City. He started as a 1st grade Assistant Teacher, graduated to teaching 2nd grade, taught 3rd and 4th grade Math, 5th grade History, and then some 6th, 7th and 8th grade.
Teaching school, Jon re-discovered how smart kids are, and found the best audience for the weir