Ralph Fletcher

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The United States

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male

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http://www.ralphfletcher.com/

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Young Adult, Children's Books, Literature & Fiction

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Ralph Fletcher is a friend of young writers and readers as well as writing teachers. He has written or co-authored many books for writing teachers includng Writing Workshop: The Essential Guide, Teaching the Qualities of Writing, Lessons for the Writer's Notebook, Boy Writers: Reclaiming Their Voices, and Pyrotechnics on the Page: Playful Craft That Sparks Writing. Ralph has worked with teachers around the U.S. and abroad, helping them find wiser ways of teaching writing.

Ralph's many books for students include picture books (Twilight Comes Twice, Hello Harvest Moon, and The Sandman), novels (Fig Pudding, Flying Solo, and Spider Boy), poetry (A Writing Kind of Day and Moving Day), and a memoir, Marshfield Dreams: When I Was a Kid. His novel...more

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Books by Ralph Fletcher

Average rating: 4.01 · 2,836 ratings · 571 reviews · 50 distinct works

	Flying Solo 3.79 avg rating — 507 ratings — published 1998 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Fig Pudding 4.17 avg rating — 284 ratings — published 1995 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Writing Workshop: The Essential Guidefrom the Authors of Craft Lessons by Ralph Fletcher, Joann Portalupi 3.94 avg rating — 203 ratings — published 2001	My rating:
	A Writer's Notebook: Unlocking the Writer within You 3.94 avg rating — 186 ratings — published 1996 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Marshfield Dreams: When I Was a Kid 4.28 avg rating — 128 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Boy Writers 4.30 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	My rating:
	What a Writer Needs by Ralph Fletcher, Donald Morison Murray (Foreword by) 4.12 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 1992	My rating:
	Craft Lessons by Ralph Fletcher, Joann Portalupi 4.21 avg rating — 131 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Also Known as Rowan Pohi 3.37 avg rating — 119 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Live Writing: Breathing Life into Your Words 4.15 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Ralph Fletcher

“The real meaning of a poem is to stop time.”
― Ralph Fletcher, A Writer's Notebook: Unlocking the Writer within You

tags: inspirational

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“When students write from experience, they can breathe those specifics into their writing- dialect, odd smells, precise names of plants- that can animate even the most tired and tedious text.”
― Ralph Fletcher, What a Writer Needs

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“When someone you love dies, you get a big bowl of sadness put down in front of you, steaming hot. You can start eating now, or you can let it cool and eat it bit by bit later one. Either way, you end up eating the whole thing. There's really no way around it.”
― Ralph Fletcher, Fig Pudding

tags: grief

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