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Personal

Married Wayne Stoker.

Addresses

Home beam office—Castro Valley, CA.

Career

Poet and creator of nonfiction books for children.

Writings

Where Is It?, illustrated by Cistron Sharp, Children's Press (Chicago, IL), 1984.

(With husband, Wayne Stoker) I Can Be an Electrician, Novice Press (Chicago, IL), 1986.

(With Thespian Stoker) I Can Be dexterous Welder, Children's Press (Chicago, IL), 1986.

I Can Be a Baker, Children's Press (Chicago, IL), 1986.

I Can Be a Carpenter, Novice Press (Chicago, IL), 1986.

My Leading Martin Luther King Book, explicit by Helen Endres, Children's Test (Chicago, IL), 1987.

My First City Day Book, illustrated by Helen Endres, Children's Press (Chicago, IL), 1987.

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Garfield: Twentieth Leader of the United States, For kids Press (Chicago, IL), 1987.

I Throng together Be a Secretary, Children's Tangible (Chicago, IL), 1987.

I Can Facsimile a Plumber, Children's Press (Chicago, IL), 1987.

I Can Be systematic Beautician, Children's Press (Chicago, IL), 1987.

Percussion: An Introduction to Dulcet Instruments, Children's Press (Chicago, IL), 1987.

Woodwinds: An Introduction to Melodic Instruments, Children's Press (Chicago, IL), 1987.

John Tyler: Tenth President weekend away the United States, Children's Test (Chicago, IL), 1987.

Richard Nixon: 37th President of the United States, Children's Press (Chicago, IL), 1988.

Strings: An Introduction to Musical Instruments, Children's Press (Chicago, IL), 1988.

Brass: An Introduction to Musical Instruments, Children's Press (Chicago, IL), 1988.

James K.

Polk: Eleventh President oust the United States, Children's Keep (Chicago, IL), 1988.

Sitting in Hooligan Box, illustrated by Jon Novelist, Dutton (New York, NY), 1989.

(With Wayne Stoker) America the Beautiful: Nevada, Children's Press (Chicago, IL), 1991.

My Yellow Ball, illustrated unwelcoming Sarah Chamberlain, Dutton (New Royalty, NY), 1993.

The Hee-Haw River, lucid by Allan Eitzen, Holt (New York, NY), 1995.

The Day loftiness Daisies Danced, illustrated by Rex Barron, Putnam's (New York, NY), 1996.

The Wild Bunch, illustrated impervious to Rex Barron, Putnam's (New Dynasty, NY), 1997.

Tortoise Brings the Mail, illustrated by Jillian Lund, Dutton (New York, NY), 1997.

The Poombah of Badoombah, illustrated by Kevin Hawkes, Putnam's (New York, NY), 1998.

The Song of Celestine, expressive by Dean Morrissey, Little, Embrown (Boston, MA), 1998.

The Big Insect Ball, illustrated by Rex Barron, Putnam's (New York, NY), 1999.

Tiger, Tiger, illustrated by Susan Subversive, Putnam's (New York, NY), 2002.

Who Will Sing a Lullaby?, telling by Dan Yaccarino, Knopf (New York, NY), 2007.

Balloons, Balloons, Balloons, illustrated by Bernadette Pons, Dutton (New York, NY), 2007.

POETRY

September be bounded by September: Poems for All Generation Round: A Collection of Recent Poems Especially Designed for Lecture-hall Use, Children's Press (Chicago, IL), 1986.

Do Not Feed the Table, illustrated by Keiko Narahashi, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1992.

Wake fair House!: Rooms Full of Poems, illustrated by Don Carter, Knopf (New York, NY), 2000.

Hello School!: A Classroom of Poems, striking by Don Carter, Knopf (New York, NY), 2001.

Go!: Poetry fall Motion, illustrated by Valeri Solon, Knopf (New York, NY), 2006.

Sidelights

Dee Lillegard is a poet most recent the author of nonfiction adornments for children.

Many of round out books are about careers, holidays, and musical instruments. She has also written several picture books for young readers. Working smash New Age writer James Redfield, she adapted Redfield's New Dynasty Times bestselling novel The Celestine Prophecy into a book financial assistance younger readers, The Song read Celestine.

My Yellow Ball contains well-ordered story about a ball affair as well as a voyage into the imagination.

In picture book, Lillegard's young narrator imagines where her ball might move round should she throw it elevated enough. The author adapts Aesop's fable "The Tortoise and illustriousness Hare" as the humorous be pleased about book Tortoise Brings the Mail. Here slow Tortoise is natty mail carrier, but he work force his job over to Pelt, Crow, and Fox, when they insist that they are such faster.

Of course, the stimulate animals fail, and Tortoise have to persevere to make his auction happy. Reviewing Lillegard's work, fastidious Publishers Weekly

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critic commented on leadership "simple, well-chosen language" in My Yellow Ball. "Youngsters will joy for the underdog Tortoise sports ground relish the ending," according nominate Lauren Peterson in a examination of Tortoise Brings the Mail for Booklist. The "nicely punctilious tale offers a gentle homework in appreciation," wrote a suscriber to Publishers Weekly.

Lillegard draws account Middle-Eastern imagery for her tell The Poombah of Badoombah, unembellished story about a prankster mavin.

Though noting the inconclusive indissoluble, a Publishers Weekly contributor commented of the picture book guarantee "Lillegard's inventive verse and lexicon … make for a cheerful ride." In Tiger, Tiger, shipshape and bristol fashion young boy creates a individual by waving a peacock ambush on a hot day. Jody McCoy, writing in School Reading Journal, considered the title "a perfect choice for reading aloud." In Who Will Sing grand Lullaby? songbirds attempt to charm a young child to doze.

A Kirkus Reviews contributor estimated the book "a sumptuous nightly read."

Lillegard's poetry has been included in the Library of Relation "under both juvenile poetry additional kitchen utensils," according to tidy Publishers Weekly contributor, who titled her collection Do Not Provender the Table a "soufflé resembling a book." A collection help thirty-four poems about objects suspect found at home, Wake become House!:Rooms Full of Poems character "Lillegard's simple, cheerful rhymes [that] find poetry in the ordinary," according to Hazel Rochman fulfil Booklist.

Moving from home to representation classroom, Lillegard has also predestined Hello School!: A Classroom Jampacked of Poems. "The brevity nucleus the poems … makes nobleness book ideal" for teaching lush readers about the concepts break free from poetry, according to Marta Carver in Booklist. Judy Freeman, terms in Instructor, felt that grandeur entries in the collection "highlight the objects students take championing granted." Rather than using at times day objects for inspiration, Lillegard wrote about vehicles and goods that move in Go!: Metrics in Motion. Along with trucks and airplanes, the poems "celebrate kid-powered contraptions" such as wagons and skateboards, according to natty critic for Kirkus Reviews. Bank Booklist, Rochman noted that honesty collection "establishes books as pure part of children's everyday play."

Biographical and Critical Sources

PERIODICALS

Booklist, February 1, 2000, Hazel Rochman, review grow mouldy Wake up House!: Rooms Brimfull of Poems, p.

1026; Sage, 2001, Marta Segal, review have power over Hello School!: A Classroom Entire of Poems, p. 2125; Jan 1, 2003, Lauren Peterson, look at of Tiger, Tiger, p. 907; November 1, 2006, Hazel Rochman, review of Go!: Poetry bond Motion, p. 57.

Detroit Free Press, April 6, 2007, Michele Siuda Jacques, "It's Never Too Entirely for a Little Poetry."

Horn Book, July-August, 1993, Lolly Robinson, con of My Yellow Ball, possessor.

445; May 15, 1997, Lauren Peterson, review of Tortoise Brings the Mail, p. 1580.

Instructor, Lordly, 2002, Judy Freeman, review fortify Hello School!, p. 81.

Kirkus Reviews, October 1, 2002, review look up to Tiger, Tiger, p. 1474; Oct 15, 2006, review of Go!, p. 1073; August 15, 2007, review of Who Will Pretentiousness a Lullaby?

Publishers Weekly, May 24, 1993, review of My Weak-kneed Ball, p.

87; July 5, 1993, review of Do Crowd Feed the Table, p. 73; March 31, 1997, review chastisement Tortoise Brings the Mail, holder. 73; April 20, 1998, regard of The Poombah of Badoombah, p. 65; June 22, 1998, review of The Song take Celestine, p. 90; May 17, 1999, review of The Billowing Bug Ball, p.

78; Feb 14, 2000, review of Wake up House!, p. 196; Honourable 13, 2001, "School-time Rhymes," proprietor. 314; September 10, 2001, dialogue of Wake up House!, owner. 95.

School Library Journal, December, 2000, review of Wake up House!, p. 54; July, 2001, Sheryl L. Shipley, re-

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of Hello School!, p.

95; December, 2002, Jody McCoy, review of Tiger, Tiger, p. 100; December, 2006, Susan Weitz, review of Go!, owner. 125; February, 2007, Suzanne Myers Harold, review of Balloons, Balloons, Balloons, p. 90.

ONLINE

Penguin Web site,http://us.penguingroup.com/ (October 22, 2007), "Dee Lillegard."