Terri Libenson

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Terri Libenson
Born1980 (age 4243)
Kingston, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Occupation(s)Cartoonist, children's book author

Terri Libenson (born 1970) is an American comic strip and children's book author known for her newspaper comic strip The Pajama Diaries which took the 70th Silver Reuben Award for best newspaper comic strip and for her graphic novels for young teenagers.

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Life

Libenson was born in Kingston, Pennsylvania in 1970. [1]

Libenson wrote for the greeting card company American Greetings.[ citation needed ] She created The Pajama Diaries in 2006. [2] [3] She also wrote the graphic novel for children Invisible Emmie [4] and later Positively Izzy.

In May 2016 Libenson won the 70th annual Silver Reuben Award for her newspaper comic strip, The Pajama Diaries, after voting by her fellow cartoonists at a ceremony in Memphis. [5]

She stopped writing her main cartoon in 2019 [1] to write children's books. [6] She has written a series of books known as "Emmie and Friends" aimed at 12-14 year olds. Each of the books feature one of the Lakefront Middle School students who also appears as co-stars in the other books. [7] The early characters were girls but Tyler gets a look-in in a later book where his problems are solved by Emmie - at the cost of her own friendships. [8]

In 2020 her book Becoming Brianna was chosen as one of the youth graphic novels that defined the year by the Washington Post . [9]

Publications

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References

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  7. 1 2 "Art or sport? It doesn't always have to be simply one or the other". The National. May 23, 2021.
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