Joan Bauer





Joan Bauer

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July 12, 1951 - I was born at eleven A.M., a most reasonable time, my mother often said, and when the nurse put me in my mother's arms for the first time I had both a nasty case of the hiccups and no discernible forehead (it's since grown in). I've always believed in comic entrances.

As I grew up in River Forest, Illinois, in the 1950's, I seem to remember an early fascination with things that were funny. I thought that people who could make other people laugh were terribly fortunate. While my friends made their career plans, declaring they would become doctors, nurses, and lawyers, inwardly I knew that I wanted to be involved somehow in comedy. This, however, was a difficult concept to get across in...more


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A hydrangea that I thought had died pushes up in my garden. A vine I thought wasn't going to make it began thriving in the last two weeks. The age-old lilac tree that we were going to cut down because it never bloomed, flourished this year. I took a tree class today with my neighbors and we all officially adopted the trees on our street, pledging to care for them. I do not consider myself a gar...

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Hope Was Here
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Rules of the Road (Rules of...
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Peeled
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Close to Famous
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Best Foot Forward (Rules of...
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Squashed
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 863 ratings — published 1992 — 13 editions
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Stand Tall
3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 654 ratings — published 2002 — 10 editions
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Thwonk
3.23 of 5 stars 3.23 avg rating — 797 ratings — published 1995 — 15 editions
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Backwater
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 609 ratings — published 1999 — 9 editions
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Sticks
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“My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid.”
Joan Bauer, Rules of the Road

“We read to learn and to grow, to laugh, to be motivated, and to understand things we've never been exposed to. We read for strength to help us when we feel broken, discouraged or afraid. We read to find hope. We read because we're not just made up of skin and bones, and a deep need for chocolate, but we're also made up of words, words which describe our thoughts and what's hidden in our hearts.”
Joan Bauer

“When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian.”
Joan Bauer

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