Christopher Paul Curtis
Christopher Paul Curtis is an American children's book author. His first novel, The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963, was published in 1995 and brought him immediate national recognition, receiving the Coretta Scott King Honor Book Award and the Newbery Honor Book Award, in addition to numerous other awards. In 2000, he became the first person to win both the Newbery Medal and the Coretta Scott King Award—prizes received for his second novel Bud, Not Buddy—and the first African-American man to win the Newbery Medal. His novel The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963 was made into a television film in 2013.
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Newbery Book Set: The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1963, Bud Not Buddy From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler ; the View From Saturday ; Incident At Hawk's Hill, the View From Saturday, Dogsong
with E.L. Konigsburg, Allan W. Eckert, Mildred D. Taylor and Joan W. Blos
with Clare Vanderpool and Rebecca Stead
with Lois Metzger and Douglas Rees
with LeVar Burton
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with Gary Paulsen, Louis Sachar and Jerry Spinelli