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Deborah Hopkinson

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Lowell, Massachusetts, The United States

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Children's Books, Historical Fiction, Nonfiction

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I write picture books, nonfiction, and middle grade fiction. I love history and talking with young readers. In 2020-21 I am launching #ZoomingIntoHistory with Deborah Hopkinson!

My new books in 2020 are MINDFUL DAY, WE HAD TO BE BRAVE, THANKS to FRANCES PERKINS, and BUTTERFLIES BELONG HERE.

ORDINARY, EXTRAORDINARY JANE was a 2019 Oregon Book Award finalist and both HOW I BECAME a SPY and CARTER READS THE NEWSPAPER are finalists in 2020. I received the Jane Addams Peace Association Award for STEAMBOAT SCHOOL and the 2017 Green Earth Book Award for FOLLOW THE MOON HOME.

My nonfiction includes D-DAY: THE WORLD WAR II INVASION THAT CHANGED HISTORY, TITANIC: VOICES FROM THE DISASTER, a 2013 Sibert Honor Book and a 2013 YALSA Excellence in Nonficti ...more

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	Titanic: Voices From the Disaster 4.04 avg rating — 4,056 ratings — published 2012 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel 3.89 avg rating — 3,065 ratings — published 2013 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt by Deborah Hopkinson (Goodreads Author), James E. Ransome (Illustrator) 4.35 avg rating — 1,619 ratings — published 1993 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hear My Sorrow: The Diary of Angela Denoto, a Shirtwaist Worker, New York City 1909 4.04 avg rating — 1,538 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Letter to My Teacher by Deborah Hopkinson (Goodreads Author), Nancy Carpenter (Illustrator) 4.38 avg rating — 603 ratings — published 2017 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ordinary, Extraordinary Jane Austen by Deborah Hopkinson (Goodreads Author), Qin Leng (Illustrator) 4.35 avg rating — 600 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Steamboat School by Deborah Hopkinson (Goodreads Author), Ron Husband (Illustrations) 4.26 avg rating — 592 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek: A Tall, Thin Tale by Deborah Hopkinson (Goodreads Author), John Hendrix (Illustrator) 3.97 avg rating — 595 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Boy Called Dickens by Deborah Hopkinson (Goodreads Author), John Hendrix 3.80 avg rating — 606 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Who Was Charles Darwin? by Deborah Hopkinson (Goodreads Author), Nancy Harrison (Illustrator) 4.18 avg rating — 570 ratings — published 2005 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Things of the past

When I first was inspired to write The Great Trouble, about Dr. John Snow and the London cholera epidemic of 1854, I fell into the same trap many of the elementary students I speak to at author visits do.

I thought of it as an inspiring story of perseverence and achievement -- and something in the past.

But now each day brings report of new outbreaks. The latest is in Mexico, probably stemming fro Read more of this blog post »

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“The events of the Titanic disaster can be seen as a symbol of what happens through overconfidence in technology, complacence, and a mindset of profits over people's safety.”
― Deborah Hopkinson, Titanic: Voices From the Disaster

tags: greed, technology, titanic

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“And what did Maurice buy when he first got paid? A Russian-English dictionary! Maurice bought a novel and began to try to read it. Each time he saw a word he didn't know, he copied it on a piece of paper. After he finished each page, he looked up the words he didn't know in his new dictionary, then read the page again until he could understand it.
Maurice did this, page by page, until he finished the book. It was slow going, but he didn't give up. 'Every day more of the strange sounds took on meaning as words arranged themselves into sentences.”
― Deborah Hopkinson, Shutting Out the Sky: Life in the Tenements of New York, 1880-1924

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“Then how about this: Remember Austin Gollaher, because what we do matters, even if we don't end up in history books.”
― Deborah Hopkinson, Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek: A Tall, Thin Tale

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