Laura Amy Schlitz Quotes

Laura Amy Schlitz is an American author of children's literature. She is a librarian and storyteller at The Park School in Brooklandville, Maryland.

She received the 2008 Newbery Medal for her children's book entitled Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village, and the 2013 Newbery Honor for her children's book, Splendors and Glooms. She also won the 2016 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, the 2015 National Jewish Book Award, and the Sydney Taylor Book Award for her young adult book, The Hired Girl. Her other published books are The Hero Schliemann: The Dreamer Who Dug For Troy , A Drowned Maiden's Hair: A Melodrama , which won a Cybils Award that year, The Bearskinner: A Tale of the Brothers Grimm , The Night Fairy , and Princess Cora and the Crocodile .

Schlitz attended Goucher College in Towson, Maryland, and graduated in 1977. Wikipedia

✵ 28. May 1955

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Splendors and Glooms

Splendors and Glooms

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Famous Laura Amy Schlitz Quotes

“My books promised me that life wasn’t just made up of workday tasks and prosaic things. The world is bigger and more colorful and more important than that.”

Laura Amy Schlitz

“You know how it is. Someone pretends to love you, and you give too much away.”

Laura Amy Schlitz book Splendors and Glooms

Source: Splendors and Glooms

“But I think the most important thing those books gave me was a kind of faith. My books promised me that life wasn’t just made up of workaday tasks and prosaic things. The world is bigger and more colorful and more important than that.”

Laura Amy Schlitz

Source: The Hired Girl

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