Margi Preus is an American children's writer. She is a 2011 Newbery Honor winner and won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature for Heart of a Samurai.[1] Her books have won multiple awards, honored as ALA/ALSC Notables, landed on many "best of" lists, featured on NPR, chosen for community reads, and translated into many languages.*
She earned her undergraduate degree at Luther College and graduate degree from Binghamton University.[2] She taught at the College of St. Scholastica, University of Minnesota Duluth.[3] She lives in Duluth, Minnesota.[4]
Works edit
- Windswept, Illustrator Armando Veve, Harry N. Abrams, 2022, ISBN 978-1419758249
- Storm's Coming!, Illustrator David Geister, MHS Press, 2016, ISBN 978-1-68134-0180-0
- The Bamboo Sword, Amulet Books, 2015, ISBN 978-1-4197-0807-7
- Enchantment Lake, University of Minnesota Press, 2015, ISBN 978-0-8166-8302-4
- West of the Moon, Amulet Books, 2014, ISBN 978-1-4197-1532-7
- Shadow on The Mountain, Aumlet Books, 2012, ISBN 978-1419711596
- The Legend of the Lady Slipper. Illustrator Andrea Arroyo. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 1999. ISBN 978-0-395-90512-8.
Margi Preus.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - A Book of Grace: Words to Bring You Peace. Sourcebooks, Inc. 2002. ISBN 978-1-57071-977-6.
- The Peace Bell, Illustrator Hideko Takahashi, Henry Holt, 2008, ISBN 978-0-8050-7800-8
- Heart of a Samurai, Amulet Books, 2010, ISBN 978-0-8109-8981-8
- Celebritrees: Historic and Famous Trees of the World. Illustrator Rebecca Gibbon. Macmillan. 2011. ISBN 978-0-8050-7829-9.
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Margi Preus was a runner up for the 2011 Newbery medal and won the Asian/Pacific American award for literature. They were nominated for the Minnesota Book Award for the Middle Grade Literature category for Windswept in 2023.[5]
References edit
- ^ "Authors Karen Tei Yamashita, Margi Preus, win Asian Pacific awards". Star Tribune.
- ^ Preus, Margi (1983). "Visions in Near-sleep".
- ^ "Margi Preus". Archived from the original on 2011-05-18. Retrieved 2011-04-05.
- ^ "Author".
- ^ "36 Finalists Blog: Margi Preus – The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library". Retrieved 2023-04-26.
External links edit
- Official website
- "Author Interview: Margi Preus, author of Heart of a Samurai", The Fourth Musketeer, July 24, 2010
- "2010 Children's Best: Heart of a Samurai, by Margi Preus", Kirkus, Clayton Moore, November 15, 2010
- Meghan Cox Gurdon (August 7, 2010). "Heart of a Samurai". The Wall Street Journal.
- Margi Preus[permanent dead link] at Library of Congress Authorities — with 7 catalog records