Leslie kimmelman biography
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About Leslie Kimmelman
Leslie Kimmelman is a published author and an editor of children's books. Some of the published credits of Leslie Kimmelman include Everybody Bonjours!, Numbers 1 - 20 (Sesame Street), Beginning Words (Sesame Street).
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Author: Leslie Kimmelman
Illustrator: Jorge Monlongo
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
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Leslie Kimmelman is the author of the new children's picture books Write On, Irving Berlin! and Here Come the Helpers. Her many other books for kids include Everybody Bonjours! and Everybody Says Shalom. A former senior editor and writer for Sesame Street Magazine, she lives outside New York City.
Q: Why did you decide to write a picture book biography of Irving Berlin, and what do you hope young readers take away from his life story?
A: First of all, I LOVE Irving Berlin's music! He wrote well over 1,000 songs, and though not all of them live up to his highest standards, the good ones are just gorgeous.
Then, too, I always thought it was fascinating that someone who was born Jewish, whose father was a cantor, who had to flee the pogroms of Russia, would grow up to write "White Christmas" and "Easter Parade." I had to know more about this composer.
And lastly, and maybe the main reason I didn't just learn for my own enrichment but decided to write a c
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About ME
The very first word I learned to read was A-L-L. It was particularly appropriate because from the joyful moment inom got my first library card, my goal was to read every single book in the children’s section. Books were magical to me. I still feel that way.
When inom was in college in a small New England town, a young woman came to speak as part of an alumni career day. She lived in the unknown, glamorous, and slightly intimidating New York City. She talked about her career as an editor at a publishing house where, she told us, she got to read books all day long.
It was one of those aha! moments. After graduation, I moved to New York City and began my publishing career. inom spent many happy years as a children's book editor at various publishing houses. It took me a while to get used to reading on the job; at first, anytime someone walked bygd my desk, I’d guiltily try to hide my reading ämne. Then I’d remember that I was doing exactly what inom w