# Jen Bryant
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jen bryant (born 1960) is an American poet, novelist and children's author. She has won several awards for her work, most notably the Robert F. Sibert International Book Medal for The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus, the NCTE Orbis Pictus Award and the Charlotte Zolotow Honor Award for A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams, and the Schneider Family Book Award for Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille. Her books The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus and A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams have both been distinguished with Caldecott Honors for Melissa Sweet's artwork.
Ep01 PoP Into the Classroom: Building Engagement and Background for a PoP Lesson
The Patterns of Power family is excited to be back! In this episode, Travis Leech and Whitney La Rocca share a favorite "In the Classroom" strategy: using a read-aloud from the text where we've curated a lesson's model sentence to build background knowledge and engagement before starting a Patterns…
Episode 500: Roget's Thesaurus
Episode 500 of the CMP, a Creativity Matters Podcast — a children’s book and a love of synonyms
This episode is a discussion of a wonderful children’s book, The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus, written by Jen Bryant and illustrated by Melissa Sweet.
This episode is mostly a voiceover for a rece…
Real People, Victorian Children’s Periodicals
Real People (3:51)
Real stories – real lives – real people. We often meet them in biographies. Perhaps we’re inspired by their examples to move through our own hard times. Individuals who are seemingly ordinary, but accomplish extraordinary things. Today, Jessica Verzello of the Worlds Awaiting te…
S6:E3 - Betsy Farquhar & Redeemed Reader
Carolyn Clare Givens chats with Betsy Farquhar the Editor-in-Chief of Redeemed Reader, a bookish review site for all types of books. She discusses the origins and mission of Redeemed Reader, along with thoughts on various book prizes, the dangers inherent in reviewing book series before they’re don…
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