{"product_id":"virginia-hamilton-americas-storyteller-9780821422694","title":"Virginia Hamilton: America's Storyteller","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book of 2018 (Outstanding Merit selection) - Finalist, 2018 Ohioana Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLong before she wrote \u003ci\u003eThe House of Dies Drear, M. C. Higgins, the Great, \u003c\/i\u003e and many other children's classics, Virginia Hamilton grew up among her extended family near Yellow Springs, Ohio, where her grandfather had been brought as a baby through the Underground Railroad. The family stories she heard as a child fueled her imagination, and the freedom to roam the farms and woods nearby trained her to be a great observer. In all, Hamilton wrote forty-one books, each driven by a focus on \"the known, the remembered, and the imagined\"-particularly within the lives of African Americans.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOver her thirty-five-year career, Hamilton received every major award for children's literature. This new biography gives us the whole story of Virginia's creative genius, her passion for nurturing young readers, and her clever way of crafting stories they'd love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJulie K. Rubini\u003c\/b\u003e is the founder of Claire's Day, a children's book festival in honor of her late daughter. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eHidden Ohio\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMissing Millie Benson: The Secret Case of the Nancy Drew Ghostwriter and Journalist, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eVirginia Hamilton: America's Storyteller.\u003c\/i\u003e But most of all, she cherishes her roles as wife to Brad and mother to daughter Kyle and son Ian.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ohio University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51580276277522,"sku":"9780821422694","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_00ea357d-47da-43bf-ba4f-759499420cdc.jpg?v=1756214332","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/virginia-hamilton-americas-storyteller-9780821422694","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}