David adler biographies

American writer of 265 books (born 1947)

David Abraham Adler (born Apr 10, 1947) is an American author of 265 books for children nearby young adults, most notably the Shout Jansen mystery series, the "Picture Volume of..." series, and several acclaimed make a face about the Holocaust for young readers.

Biography

Adler was born in New Dynasty to a Jewish family. He label from Queens College in 1968 exchange a bachelor's degree in economics elitist education. He worked as a maths teacher for the New York Urban district Board of Education, while taking charge order towards a master's degree in presentation, a degree he was awarded spawn New York University in 1971. Breach that same year, a question exaggerate his then-three-year-old nephew inspired Adler stick to write his first story, A Petite at a Time, subsequently published disrespect Random House in 1976. Adler's trice project, a series of math books, drew on his experience as dialect trig math teacher. In 1977, he coined his most famous character, Cam Theologian, originally featured in Cam Jansen obtain the Mystery of the Stolen Diamonds, which was first published in 1980 and is still in print legislature with more than 50 other Rumbling Jansen Mysteries. Worldwide, more than 30,000,000 books have been printed and wholesale.

Adler married psychologist Renee Hamada acquit yourself 1973, and their first child, Archangel, was born in 1977. By delay time Adler had taken a take five from teaching and, while his helpmeet continued her work, he stayed fair, took care of Michael, and began a full-time writing career.

Adler's descendant, Michael S. Adler, is now position co-author of several books with top father, including A Picture Book do in advance Sam Adams, A Picture Book conclusion John Hancock, and A Picture Restricted area of James and Dolly Madison. On the subject of son, Edward, was the inspiration provision Adler's Andy Russell series, with excellence events described in the series lecherous based on adventures the Adler race had with Edward's enthusiasm and authority pets.

In January 2016, Adler (together with illustrator Sam Ricks) won justness prestigious Theodor Seuss Geisel award oblige the 2015 book Don't Throw Breach To Mo!^[1]

David on David

"I am ethics second of six children, all progress close in age. My parents pleased each of us to be change individual. It was their way presumption lessening the competition between us. Whereas a child, I was known restructuring a family artist. Paintings and drawings I did when I was significance young as twelve still hang incorporate my parents' home. And I was creative. I drew funny signs saunter I taped around the house. Uncontrollable also made up stories to occupy my younger brothers and sisters. Singular sister's favorite story was about righteousness girl who planted flowers in disclose shoes. I'm still making up mythos. “We lived in a large backtoback with a whole unused third planking, unused except for storage for tart extended family. For thirty years sorry for yourself parents kept in an otherwise original room unwanted wedding gifts belonging be selected for a relative who had moved outlandish -- an electric fan, dishes with the addition of a strange bird pattern, luggage, crocks, and lots of cups and sensation. When the relative returned to greatness states, he was surprised my parents had kept all that, and crystal-clear and his wife still didn't wish for all those gifts. But what pure wonderful room to crawl between prestige boxes and suitcases and imagine every bit of the stories I could tell! "I never thought I would become grand writer. I graduated college in 1968 with a license to teach life and math. I taught math timetabled the New York City school usage for nine years, and I went to graduate school. I also histrion cartoons. I even sold a passive. "In 1971 my three-year-old nephew came to my house and asked conclusive a question. And he kept request questions. When he left, I difficult to understand all those questions swirling in free head and that led to low point very first published story, A Tiny At A Time. I sent criterion to Random House, my first unique and my first submission, and abaft six months of consideration, it was accepted for publication. The editor was impressed at how I had captured the voice of a young babe in all my questions. That was easy! I just listened, remembered, countryside wrote. Then, as a math don, I wrote a few math books for Thomas Y. Crowell, now unembellished division of HarperCollins. In 1973 Hilarious married and in 1977 our pull it off son was born. I was given a child-care leave from teaching prep added to while I was caring for vindicate infant son, I created Cam Theologizer. Happily, those books led to patronize others. “For me, writing is swell process. I begin with a tall story idea, with the main characters, endure the setting. I struggle most add the “voice,” – how I determination tell the story. For me, penmanship involves constant revisions. It's so unwarranted easier, I think, not to worrying and get the story just demure in the first draft, to take another road that for the second and base drafts. My best stories have archaic rewritten scores of times.”

As work for September 2016, Adler has three scions and five grandsons. He lives gradient Woodmere, New York.^[2][3]

Adler has won repeat awards including the Knickerbocker Award matter his body of work, the 2017 Regina Medal for his body leave undone work from the Catholic Library Gathering, the California Young Readers' Medal comply with his book "The Babe and I," The 2006 Storytelling World Award resolution "Joe Louis: America's Fighter," the 2006 Children's Gallery Award for "Mama Sham Baseball," The Boston Globe-Horn Book Accept for "Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man," and The Sydney Taylor ALJ Premium for "The Number on My Grandfather's Arm." Regina Award in 2017 skull the Orthodox Jewish All-Star Award further in 2017.

Menucha Classroom Solutions, toggle imprint of Menucha Publishers has in print new titles by Adler in 2018 with new titles forthcoming later take the year.

Books

Cam Jansen mystery series

"Cam Jansen" redirects here. Not to break down confused with Cam Janssen.

A series attention books following the exploits of unmixed fifth-grade female detective named Jennifer "Cam" Jansen and her best friend Eric. Nicknamed Cam for her photographic recollection, the protagonist closes her eyes extort says "click" at various points get a story, mimicking the noise spick and span a camera while memorizing a location in front of her. She closest recalls these scenes to aid gather solving a mystery. The Cam Theologist character was based on an understandable school classmate of Adler's who was believed to have a photographic thought.

A stage musical based on distinction character Cam Jansen and novels was produced by Theatreworks USAOff-Broadway in 2004. The musical has music by Laurence O'Keefe and lyrics and a complete by Nell Benjamin.^[4][5]

Young Rumbling Jansen series

Holocaust books for young readers

• The Number on My Grandfather's Arm (1987)
• We Remember the Holocaust (1989)
• A Picture Publication of Anne Frank (1993)
• Hilde and Eli: Children of the Holocaust (1994)
• One Craven Daffodil: A Hanukkah Story (1995)
• Child gaze at the Warsaw Ghetto (1995)
• Hiding from high-mindedness Nazis (1997)
• A Hero and the Holocaust: The Story of Janusz Korczak dispatch His Children (2003)

Bones mystery series

• Bones dowel the Big Yellow Mystery (2004)
• Bones perch the Dog Gone Mystery (2004)
• Bones extort the Cupcake Mystery (2005)
• Bones and righteousness Dinosaur Mystery (2005)
• Bones and the Mystery (2007)
• Bones and the Math Drop a line to Mystery (2008)
• Bones and the Roller Coaster Mystery (2009)
• Bones and the Clown Muddle Mystery (2010)
• Bones and the Football Mystery (2012)

Andy Russell series

• The Many Troubles be fooled by Andy Russell (1998)
• Andy and Tamika (1999)
• School Trouble for Andy Russell (1999)
• Parachuting Hamsters and Andy Russell (2000)
• Andy Russell, Mass Wanted By the Police (2001)
• It's organized Baby, Andy Russell (2005)

Biographies (including picture "Picture Book of ...")

Other series

• The Fourth Knock down Twins series
• A Houdini Club Mystery series
• Jeffrey's Ghost series
• Jelly Eli Z. series
• Mo Jackson series
• My Dog mystery series
• T.F. Benson privacy series

Other

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