Carolyn Crimi

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Carolyn Crimi (born 1959) is an author of children's picture books.

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Biography

Crimi was born in 1959, in Long Island, New York. After graduating from the Berkshire School, she attended Lake Forest College, where she earned a bachelor of arts in art history in 1982. She then attended Vermont College, where she earned a master of fine arts in writing for children in 2000. She lives in Evanston, Illinois. In addition to her writing career, she also teaches courses on writing for children. She is a member of the Illinois chapter of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. [1]

Her book Don't Need Friends (Doubleday, 1999) received a starred review from Publishers Weekly that said, "Crimi's tight, deft prose mines Dog and Rat's petulance for all its comedy and poignancy". [2]

In a starred review, Kirkus Reviews called There Might Be Lobsters (Candlewick, 2017) "just beachy," saying, "Sly inclusions of lobsters in the details, in particular, will provoke readers’ laughter as they cheer on Sukie and applaud Eleanor's pluck and patience". [3]

Awards

Selected works

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References

  1. 1 2 "Carolyn Crimi." Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors . Gale, 2011. Gale Literature Resource Center. Accessed 3 May 2023.
  2. 1 2 "Don't Need Friends by Carolyn Crimi". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2023-05-03.
  3. 1 2 There Might Be Lobsters. Kirkus Reviews.
  4. ↑ Reviews of Outside, Inside
  5. ↑ Reviews of Don't Need Friends.
  6. ↑ Reviews of Tessa's Tip-Tapping Toes
  7. ↑ Reviews of Get Busy, Beaver!
  8. ↑ Reviews of Boris and Bella
  9. ↑ Reviews of Henry and the Buccaneer Bunnies
  10. ↑ Reviews of The Louds Move In!
  11. ↑ Reviews of Where's My Mummy?
  12. ↑ Reviews of Henry and the Crazed Chicken Pirates
  13. ↑ Reviews of Dear Tabby
  14. ↑ Reviews of Principal Fred Won't Go to Bed
  15. ↑ Reviews of Rock 'N' Roll Mole
  16. ↑ Reviews of Pugs in a Bug
  17. ↑ Reviews of There Might Be Lobsters
  18. ↑ Reviews of Weird Little Robots
  19. ↑ Reviews of Secondhand Dogs
  20. ↑ Reviews of How to Haunt a House
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