[close] Sarah Weeks has been writing children’s books and songs for the past twenty years. She is a graduate of Hampshire College and NYU and recently became an adjunct faculty member in the prestigious Writing Program at the New School University, in New York City.

Her first YA novel, So B. It, which appeared on the LA Times bestseller list was chosen as an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, a Booksense 2004 best book of the year and received the 2004 Parent’s Choice Gold Award. Her second novel, the highly anticipated Jumping the Scratch will be released by HarperCollins in Spring 2006. Ms. Weeks has written four books in a humorous middle grade series, Boyds Will Be Boyds, published in both club and trade editions by Scholastic. Her popular Regular Guy series for middle graders has resulted in a development deal with Disney for a feature length live-action film. She has written more than thirty picture books, which include such bestsellers as Mrs. McNosh Hangs up Her Wash, If I Were a Lion, Crocodile Smile, Follow the Moon and What’s Under that Hat? In addition to being an author, Ms. Weeks is an accomplished singer/songwriter. She has written for television, stage and screen and a number of her picturebooks include songs which she both writes and sings for the accompanying CD’s. Her novels, picture books, book-with-CD packages, pop-up books, board books and early readers have been published by HarperCollins, Scholastic, Simon and Schuster, Harcourt and Dial Books. Ms. Weeks’ titles have sold well over a million copies, including several foreign editions.

Sarah is a tireless promoter, visiting schools throughout the country, talking to children about writing, reading her books, singing her songs, serving as author-in-residence and speaking to teachers and librarians at national conferences including IRA, ALA and NCTE. She lives in New York City with her two teenage sons.
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