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Jonah Winter

Born

in Fort Worth, Texas, The United States

August 19, 1962

Website

http://www.jonahwinter.com/

Genre

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Jonah Winter is the celebrated author of many picture book biographies, including Barack, which was a New York Times bestseller. His books include Here Comes the Garbage Barge, Sonia Sotomayor, Roberto Clemente, and more. A poet and a painter, Mr. Winter divides his time between Santa Fe and a small town in Pennsylvania.

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Average rating: 3.99 · 12,102 ratings · 2,746 reviews · 52 distinct works • Similar authors

	Here Comes the Garbage Barge! by Jonah Winter, Red Nose Studio (Illustrator) 3.80 avg rating — 1,464 ratings — published 2010 — 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
	Frida by Jonah Winter, Ana Juan (Illustrator) 4.18 avg rating — 1,338 ratings — published 2002 — 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
	Lillian's Right to Vote: A Celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by Jonah Winter, Shane W. Evans (Illustrator) 4.36 avg rating — 1,237 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The Case of R.B.G. vs. Inequality by Jonah Winter, Stacy Innerst (Illustrator) 4.46 avg rating — 832 ratings — 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
	The Sad Little Fact by Jonah Winter, Pete Oswald (Illustrator) 3.81 avg rating — 659 ratings — published 2019 — 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
	The Secret Project by Jonah Winter, Jeanette Winter (Illustrator) 3.70 avg rating — 568 ratings — published 2017 — 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
	Elvis Is King! by Jonah Winter, Red Nose Studio (Illustrator) 3.78 avg rating — 547 ratings — published 2019 — 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
	Sonia Sotomayor: A Judge Grows in the Bronx/La juez que creció en el Bronx by Jonah Winter, Edel Rodriquez (Illustrator) 4.29 avg rating — 430 ratings — published 2009 — 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
	Just Behave, Pablo Picasso! by Jonah Winter, Kevin Hawkes (Illustrator) 3.85 avg rating — 380 ratings — published 2012 — 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
	You Never Heard of Sandy Koufax?! by Jonah Winter, André Carrilho (Illustrator) 3.99 avg rating — 348 ratings — published 2009 — 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

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“Pages and pages and pages with words all over the pages. My goodness, what fun. What fun to write whatever words occur.”
― Jonah Winter, Gertrude is Gertrude is Gertrude is Gertrude

tags: writing

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“And now it's time for tea. Teatime is teatime. And look who's here, in time for tea.”
― Jonah Winter, Gertrude is Gertrude is Gertrude is Gertrude

tags: tea

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“You see Miss Gertrude is a genius. And a genius is a genius. So what if no one understands a word she writes. Some day they might.”
― Jonah Winter, Gertrude is Gertrude is Gertrude is Gertrude

tags: genius

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What book should we read in April?

You may write in titles, provided the book is a 2018 Newbery contender and already published.

Siren Sisters by Dana Langer

26 votes 17.7%

One Last Word: Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance by Nikki Grimes

22 votes 15.0%

One Amazing Elephant by Linda Oatman High

21 votes 14.3%

Loving vs. Virginia: A Documentary Novel of the Landmark Civil Rights Case by Patricia Hruby Powell

21 votes 14.3%

The Secret Project by Jonah Winter

17 votes 11.6%

The Playbook: 52 Rules to Aim, Shoot, and Score in This Game Called Life by Kwame Alexander

10 votes 6.8%

The Someday birds (write-in)

9 votes 6.1%

Hello, Universe (write-in)

5 votes 3.4%

The Playbook (write-in)

5 votes 3.4%

Hello, Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly (write-in)

4 votes 2.7%

One Amazing Elephant by Linda Oatman High (write-in)

4 votes 2.7%

see you in the cosmos (write-in)

2 votes 1.4%

the playbook (write-in)

1 vote 0.7%

147 total votes

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