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Deborah Hopkinson

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Lowell, Massachusetts, The United States

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http://www.deborahhopkinson.com

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Children's Books, Historical Fiction, Nonfiction

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March 2010

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I write nonfiction and historical fiction about ordinary and extraordinary people of the past, women's history, and environmental and social justice issues. I also speak to students with #ZOOMINGINTOHISTORY presentations.

I'm available for critiques of picture books, nonfiction, and middle grade novels.

New books in 2021: WE MUST NOT FORGET: HOLOCAUST STORIES OF SURVIVAL and RESISTANCE, THE DEADLIEST DISEASES THEN AND NOW, THE STORY OF A STORY, illus by Hadley Hooper, and MY LITTLE GOLDEN BOOK ABOUT DOLLY PARTON.

Recent Awards:
BUTTERFLIES BELONG HERE won the 2021 Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award and is an OR Book Award finalist. WE HAD TO BE BRAVE is also an Oregon Book Award finalist.

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	Titanic: Voices From the Disaster 4.04 avg rating — 4,201 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel 3.90 avg rating — 3,229 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 — 1,719 ratings — published 1993 — 12 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 4.05 avg rating — 1,589 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
	Ordinary, Extraordinary Jane Austen by Deborah Hopkinson (Goodreads Author), Qin Leng (Illustrator) 4.36 avg rating — 676 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
	A Letter to My Teacher by Deborah Hopkinson (Goodreads Author), Nancy Carpenter (Illustrator) 4.39 avg rating — 665 ratings — published 2017 — 7 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) 4.27 avg rating — 632 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
	A Boy Called Dickens by Deborah Hopkinson (Goodreads Author), John Hendrix 3.79 avg rating — 645 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek: A Tall, Thin Tale by Deborah Hopkinson (Goodreads Author), John Hendrix (Illustrator) 3.96 avg rating — 615 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
	Who Was Charles Darwin? by Deborah Hopkinson (Goodreads Author), Nancy Harrison (Illustrator) 4.17 avg rating — 630 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

tags: abraham-lincoln, children, childrens-books

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