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Nancy Van Laan

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born

November 18, 1939

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Children's Books

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Nancy Van Laan was born in Baton Rouge, La. Her father was a colonel in the US Air Force, and the family moved frequently as Van Laan was growing up. She began making up stories to pass the time on long car trips. Although Van Laan had a learning disability, she loved to read. She began drawing and writing poetry as a child and enjoyed illustrating her own stories. Van Laan also loved ballet and began taking lessons at the age of nine. By age seventeen, she had her own ballet company in Birmingham that performed on a weekly program broadcast on Alabama Educational TV (now Alabama Public Television). Van Laan’s dancing career ended after an injury she sustained as a student at Sullins College in Bristol, Va. After completing her AA degree at...more

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Books by Nancy Van Laan

Average rating: 3.64 · 352 ratings · 101 reviews · 31 distinct works

	Possum Come a-Knockin' by Nancy Van Laan, George Booth (Illustrations) 4.11 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 1990 — 8 editions	My rating:
	When Winter Comes 3.65 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	My rating:
	So Say the Little Monkeys by Nancy Van Laan, Yumi Heo (Illustrator) 3.80 avg rating — 41 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Rainbow Crow by Nancy Van Laan, Beatriz Vidal (Illustrator) 4.08 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1989 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Magic Bean Tree: A Legend from Argentina by Nancy Van Laan, Beatriz Vidal (Illustrator) 3.60 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Tickle Tum! by Nancy Van Laan, Bernadette Pons (Illustrator) 3.71 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Scrubba Dub 2.94 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	My rating:
	A Tree for Me 3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Nit-Pickin 2.41 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	With a Whoop and a Holler: A Bushel of Lore from Way Down South 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	My rating: