Sam Swope

Sam Swope is an author and the 2006 Thurber House children's writer in residence.

Works by Swope include I Am a Pencil: A Teacher, His Kids, and Their World of Stories, a memoir recounting three years Swope spent teaching writing students at a Queens, New York, public school.^[1]

I Am a Pencil won a 2005 Christopher Award, a Books for a Better Life Award, The Bechtel Prize, and was "named one of the best books of 2004 by Publishers Weekly."^[2]^[3]

Swope has reviewed books for the New York Times.^[4]

Books

I Am a Pencil: A Teacher, His Kids, and Their World of Stories; ISBN 978-0-8050-7851-0
The Araboolies of Liberty Street; ISBN 978-0-374-30390-7
The Krazees; ISBN 978-0-374-44090-9
Gotta Go! Gotta Go!; ISBN 978-0-374-42786-3
Jack and the Seven Deadly Giants; ISBN 978-0-374-33670-7

References

^ Bohjalian, Chris (2004-08-01). "Putting young lives to paper/Children's author takes a detour to teach writing at an immigrant-heavy New York grade school". The San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2008-06-23.
^ "Sam Swope bio". Retrieved 2008-06-23.
^ "Young Writers in Queens: 'I Am a Pencil': NPR". NPR. Retrieved 2008-06-23.
^ Swope, Sam (2006-12-03). "Peter Pan Books". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-06-23.