She chaired the National Book Award Committee for Young People's Literature in 2007 and has served on the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Committee and the SCBWI Golden Kite Award committee. Partridge is on the faculty of the Vermont College of Fine Arts in the MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults. UC This Land was Made for You & Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie (Golden Kite Awards). She has won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the SCBWI Golden Kite Award, and the Jane Addams Children's Book Award. Printz Award runner-up, and twice a Boston Globe–Horn Book Award runner-up. Partridge has been a National Book Award finalist, an ALA Michael L. Her latest book is the middle grade novel, Dogtag Summer. As Guthrie put it in his verses, 'The daily paper said they were fair deportees.
He had been motivated by a daily paper article that didnt give the names of the casualties. Her books include Marching for Freedom, as well the biographies John Lennon: All I Want Is the Truth, This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Music of Woody Guthrie, and Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange. This excerpt demonstrates that Woody Guthrie used his life experiences to create music about the lives of everyday people. (Americas, DVD Region 1, United States, with Territories, Lacks Family Cemetery )Įlizabeth Partridge is an American writer, the author of more than a dozen books from young-adult nonfiction to picture books to photography books.
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