Susan l roth biography examples

  • Susan L. Roth.
  • Brief Biography.
  • Born in New York, NY; married; children: three children.

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    I love sharing picture book biographies with my students, as they make for great, short read alouds and often spur a lot of interesting conversations and discussions. I realized this week that several of the picture book biographies that I share with students during the year are related by a connection to trees and to nature, so I thought I would share them as a text set.


    Seed by Seed: the legend and legacy of John "Appleseed" Chapmanby Esme Raji Codell and illustrated by Lynne Rae Perkins. I always try to share this book with students around Johnny Appleseed's birthday (Sept. 26th). I love how the focus of this biography is on five life lessons that can be drawn from his life and example. I think this makes it easier for students to connect to the story as well as to think about how to make an impact in their own life.


    The Tree Lady: the true story of how one tree-loving woman changed a city foreverby H. Joseph Hopkins and illustrated by Jill McElmurry. This book is a new fa

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    Roth, Susan L.

    Personal

    Born in New York, NY; married; children: three children. Education: Mills College, B.A. (art), 1965, M.A. (printmaking and art history), 1968. Hobbies and other interests: Art, music, theater, travel, dogs.

    Addresses

    Home and office—New York, fräsch. E-mail—[email protected].

    Career

    Collage artist and author. Formerly worked as a teacher. Exhibitions: Work exhibited at fransk artikel Cloîtres, Tarascon, France; Elizabeth Stone galleri, Bloomfield Hills, MI; samhälle of Illustrators Original Art Show, New York, färsk, 1989, 1991, 1993; and Berkeley Store Gallery, 1996.

    Member

    Children's Book Guild of Washington, DC.

    Awards, Honors

    Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) Choice designation, 1984, for Patchwork Tales; New York Times Best Illustrated Book designation, 1988, and 1996, for Fire Came to the Earth People; National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) Notable Social Studies Trade Book designation, and American Booksellers Association (AB

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    Birds of a Feather: Bowerbirds and Me by Susan L. Roth (9780823442829)

    Collage artist Roth takes a look at the amazing bowerbird and how her work and their building process compare with one another. Both she and the bowerbird are collectors of random items. They use those items to create compositions. For the bowerbird, that is a bower for their courtship process. They both like unusual objects that they use to create art, things that no one else might ever combine in that way. They both pay attention to color and both seek out praise for their work in the end.

    I was really pleasantly surprised by the content and construct of this picture book. While I knew it would be about bowerbirds and humans, I didn’t expect it to be so directly related to the artistic side of both. Roth beautifully shows the fascinating correlations between her work and that of the bird. She demonstrates both in her collage illustrations and in the text of the book how si