Sources: Photo credits: 1. http://www.maryannhoberman.com/ Mary Ann Hoberman: http://www.maryannhoberman.com/ All My Shoes Come in Twos: http://www.maryannhoberman.com/books/allMyShoes.html All Kinds of Families: http://www.maryannhoberman.com/books/allKinds.html Mary Ann Hoberman Mary Ann Hoberman is from Stamford, Connecticut and was born on August 12, 1930. While she was in school, she wrote for her school newspapers and edited her high school yearbook. In 1951, she married Norman Hoberman, an architect and artist. She has four children and five grandchildren. Mary Ann and Norman currently live in Greenwich, Connecticut. They have lived in the same home for almost fifty years, in a house that Norman designed. Hoberman’s first book was published in 1957. In 1983, she received a National Book Award. She received the 2003 Poetry for Children Award from the National Council of Teachers of English. Then in 2008, the Poetry Foundation named her the Children’s Poet Laureate. Hoberman knew she wanted to be a writer before she could even write. She remembers when she was about four years old, and she first understood that the stories she loved had been written by real people with real names. She started by making up stories, poems and songs that she told to her little brother. “…most of my ideas have originated in memories of my own childhood and in my own early interests and pastimes. As a younger woman I had almost total recall of myself as a child…I loved being a child; and as a child I was somehow already aware that childhood was fleeting and that I must never forget what it felt like to be new in the world.” Book Titles The Tree That Time Built Strawberry Hill All Kinds of Families I’m Going to Grandma’s The Llama Who Had No Pajama You Read to Me, I’ll Read to You All My Shoes Come in Twos Mary Had a Little Lamb Mrs. O’Leary’s Cow The Marvelous Mouse Man The Two Sillies It’s Simple, Said Simon Bill Grogan’s Goat This biography prepared by: Rachael Hankinson.
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Sources: Photo credits: 1. http://www.maryannhoberman.com/ Mary Ann Hoberman: http://www.maryannhoberman.com/ All My Shoes Come in Twos: http://www.maryannhoberman.com/books/allMyShoes.html All Kinds of Families: http://www.maryannhoberman.com/books/allKinds.html
Mary Ann Hoberman
Mary Ann Hoberman is from Stamford, Connecticut and was born on August 12, 1930. While she was in school, she wrote for her school newspapers and edited her high school yearbook. In 1951, she married Norman Hoberman, an architect and artist. She has four children and five grandchildren. Mary Ann and Norman currently live in Greenwich, Connecticut. They have lived in the same home for almost fifty years, in a house that Norman designed. Hoberman’s first book was published in 1957. In 1983, she received a National Book Award. She received the 2003 Poetry for Children Award from the National Council of Teachers of English. Then in 2008, the Poetry Foundation named her the Children’s Poet
Laureate. Hoberman knew she wanted to be a writer before she could even write. She remembers when she was about four years old, and she first understood that the stories she loved had been written by real people with real names. She started by making up stories, poems and songs that she told to her little brother.
“…most of my ideas have originated in memories of my own childhood and in my own early interests and pastimes. As a younger woman I had almost total recall of myself as a child…I loved being a child; and as a child I was somehow already aware that childhood was fleeting and that I must never forget what it felt like to be new in the world.”
Book Titles
The Tree That Time Built Strawberry Hill All Kinds of Families
I’m Going to Grandma’s The Llama Who Had No Pajama
You Read to Me, I’ll Read to You All My Shoes Come in Twos
Mary Had a Little Lamb Mrs. O’Leary’s Cow
The Marvelous Mouse Man The Two Sillies
It’s Simple, Said Simon Bill Grogan’s Goat
This biography prepared by: Rachael Hankinson.
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