Lynne Rae Perkins
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| Nationality | American |
| Genre | Children's literature |
| Notable works | All Alone in the Universe (2000) Criss Cross (2005) |
| Notable awards | Newbery Medal (2006) |
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Lynne Rae Perkins is an American writer and illustrator of children's books.
Her novel Criss Cross, winner of the 2006 Newbery Medal,[1] is a book of vignettes, illustrations, photographs, and poems about a group of four small-town teenagers.
Perkins' picture book Home Lovely was a runner-up for the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award. Her novel All Alone in the Universe was named an ALA Notable Book, a Booklist Editor's Choice, a Bulletin Blue Ribbon Book, and a Smithsonian Magazine Notable Book for Children.
Works
- Home Lovely, (New York: Greenwillow Books, 1995)
- Clouds for Dinner, (New York: Greenwillow Books, 1997)
- All Alone in the Universe, (Scholastic Books, 2000)
- Georgie Lee, illustrator, book by Sharon Phillips Denslow, (New York: Greenwillow Books, 2002)
- The Broken Cat, (New York: Greenwillow Books, 2002)
- Snow Music, (New York: Greenwillow Books, 2003)
- Criss Cross, (New York: Greenwillow Books, 2005)
- Pictures from our Vacation, (New York: Greenwillow Books, 2007)
- The Cardboard Piano, (New York: Greenwillow Books, 2008)
- As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth, (New York: Greenwillow Books, 2010)
- Seed by Seed (Illustrator), (New York: Greenwillow Books, 2012)
- Nuts to You, (New York: Greenwillow Books, 2014)
- Frank and Lucky Get Schooled, (New York: Greenwillow Books, 2016)
- Violet & Jobie in the Wild, (New York: Greenwillow Books, 2023)
References
- ^ "'Criss Cross' Nets Newbery Medal for Perkins". NPR.org. Retrieved November 5, 2018.