Christopher Paul Curtis won the Newbery Medal and the Coretta Scott
King Award for his bestselling second novel, Bud, Not Buddy. His
first novel, The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963, was also singled
out for many awards, and has been a bestseller in hardcover and
paperback. His most recent novels for Random House include The
Mighty Miss Malone, Mr. Chickee's Messy Mission, Mr. Chickee's
Funny Money, and Bucking the Sarge.
Christopher Paul Curtis grew up in Flint, Michigan. After high
school he began working on the assembly line at the Fisher Body
Plant No. 1 while attending the Flint branch of the University of
Michigan. He is now a full-time writer, and lives with his family
in Windsor, Ontario.
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AN ALA NOTABLE CHILDREN'S BOOK
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"This is a book that changes lives. It certainly changed mine."
--Kate DiCamillo, two-time Newbery Medalist
"I identify with so much in Christopher Paul Curtis's engrossing
classic, The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963." --David Barclay
Moore, winner of the Coretta Scott King John Steptoe Award for New
Talent
"An exceptional first novel."—Publishers Weekly, starred review
"Superb . . . a warmly memorable evocation of an African American
family." —The Horn Book Magazine, starred review
"Ribald humor . . . and a totally believable child's view of the
world will make this book an instant hit."—School Library Journal,
starred review
A 1996 Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Honor book, this comic tale, narrated by a 10-year-old boy, describes an eccentric family's unwitting trip South to visit Grandma‘during one of the stormiest times of the Civil Rights movement. PW's boxed, starred review called it "an exceptional first novel." Ages 10-up. (Oct.)
AN ALA TOP TEN BEST BOOK
AN ALA NOTABLE CHILDREN'S BOOK
AN IRA YOUNG ADULT'S CHOICE
A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW BEST BOOK
NAMED TO MULTIPLE STATE AWARD LISTS
"This is a book that changes lives. It certainly changed mine."
--Kate DiCamillo, two-time Newbery Medalist
"I identify with so much in Christopher Paul Curtis's engrossing
classic, The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963." --David
Barclay Moore, winner of the Coretta Scott King John Steptoe Award
for New Talent
"An exceptional first novel."-Publishers Weekly, starred
review
"Superb . . . a warmly memorable evocation of an African American
family." -The Horn Book Magazine, starred review
"Ribald humor . . . and a totally believable child's view of the
world will make this book an instant hit."-School Library
Journal, starred review
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