What nationality is the author of "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie"?
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Laura Numeroff Laura Joffe Numeroff (born July 14, 1953) is an American author and illustrator of children's books who is best known as the author of "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie".
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If You Give a Mouse a Cookie If You Give a Mouse a Cookie is a children's book written by Laura Numeroff and illustrated by Felicia Bond first published in 1985. Described as a "circular tale," it is Numeroff and Bond's first collaboration in what came to be the "If You Give..." series.
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Terry Burrows Terence Ashley Burrows is an English author, multi-instrumental musician, and producer based in London. Best known as a cult performer under the alias Yukio Yung, Burrows is also a prolific author of books relating to music history, theory, and tuition, technology, business, popular psychology and modern history – including "Guitars Illustrated" (Billboard), "1001 Guitars..." (Cassell), "KISS Guide to Playing Guitar" (Dorling Kindersley), "Total Guitar Tutor" (Barnes & Noble), and "ITV Visual History of the 20th Century" (Carlton). His books—now numbering more than eighty—have been published in fourteen different countries and translated into six different languages. As a writer, his pseudonyms include Terence Ashley, Harrison Franklin, Hans-Joachim Vollmer and Yukio Yung. He has also written for numerous periodicals in the UK, US, and Germany.
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Primo Levi Primo Michele Levi (] ; 31 July 1919 – 11 April 1987) was an Italian Jewish chemist, writer, and Holocaust survivor. He was the author of several books, novels, collections of short stories, essays, and poems. His best-known works include "If This Is a Man" (1947) (U.S.: "Survival in Auschwitz"), his account of the year he spent as a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland; and his unique work, "The Periodic Table" (1975), linked to qualities of the elements, which the Royal Institution of Great Britain named the best science book ever written.
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Donna Wick Donna Wick, PhD (born April 14, 1956) is an American author, talk radio host, inspirational speaker, publisher and media expert.
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Victor Watson (author) Victor Watson (born 1936) is an English author who has written on the nature and history of children's literature and on how children learn to read. He later turned to writing novels for children.
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Dorothy Edwards Dorothy Edwards (6 November 1914 – 1982) was a children's writer from England.
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Jennifer Saunders Jennifer Jane Saunders (born 6 July 1958) is an English comedian, screenwriter, and actress. She has won three BAFTAs (including the BAFTA Fellowship), an International Emmy Award, a British Comedy Award, a Rose d'Or Light Entertainment Festival Award, two Writers' Guild of Great Britain Awards, and a People's Choice Award.
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McKitterick Prize The McKitterick Prize is a United Kingdom literary prize. It is administered by the Society of Authors. It was endowed by Tom McKitterick, who had been an editor of "The Political Quarterly" but had also written a novel which was never published. The prize is awarded annually for a first novel (which need not have been published) by an author over 40. As of 2009, the value of the prize was £4000.
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Mary Gentle Mary Rosalyn Gentle (born 29 March 1956) is a UK science fiction and fantasy author.
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Meta Given Meta H. Given (January 25, 1888 – November 1981) was an American nutritionist, home economist, and best-selling cookbook author.
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Sam McBratney Sam McBratney (born 1943) is a writer from Northern Ireland. He has written more than fifty books for children and young adults, but is best known as the author of the best-selling children's book "Guess How Much I Love You", which has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide, and been translated into 53 languages.
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Michael Kenyon Michael F. Kenyon (26 June 1931 – 29 May 2005) was a British author of crime novels. Author of more than 20 humorous mystery novels, he was one of the first in the field of spoof-espionage story telling, but perhaps better known for the Superintendent O'Malley, and latterly Inspector Henry Peckover series of books. Peckover was especially successful, fondly known as "The Bard Of The Yard". He was also a regular contributor to Gourmet Magazine, The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times.
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Gerda Charles Gerda Charles was the pseudonym of Edna Lipson (14 August 1914 – 4 November 1996), an award-winning Anglo-Jewish novelist and author. She was born in Liverpool and spent her early years there. Her father died when Edna was a year old, throwing the family into poverty. At the age of 15, Edna moved to London with her mother. Together, they ran a boarding house while she continued her education through evening classes.
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Beverley Randell Beverley Randell MNZM (born 1931) is a New Zealand children's author, whose work has been published by 16 publishers in several languages. Born in Wellington, she studied English and History at Victoria University College before becoming a teacher. In 1955 her first story, "John the Mouse who Learned to Read", was published, and has sold around 267,000 copies. Over the years she wrote hundreds of stories, many aimed at children with limited reading skills, but also books aimed at adults. She married Hugh Price, a publisher, in 1955 and they collaborated on many books. In 2004 she was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to children's literature and education, and to date over two million copies of her books have been sold.
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Scott Adams Scott Raymond Adams (born June 8, 1957) is the creator of the "Dilbert" comic strip and the author of several nonfiction works of satire, commentary, business, and general speculation.
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Nigel Slater Nigel Slater (born 9 April 1958) is an English food writer, journalist and broadcaster. He has written a column for "The Observer Magazine" for over a decade and is the principal writer for the "Observer Food Monthly" supplement. Prior to this, Slater was food writer for "Marie Claire" for five years. He also serves as art director for his books.
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Benny Lewis Brendan Richard "Benny" Lewis is an author, polyglot, language teacher, and defines himself as a "technomad language hacker". Born in Ireland, he graduated in electronic engineering and then spent six months in Spain struggling to learn Spanish. His frustration with conventional methods led him to take a different approach, as described in his book and website "Fluent in 3 Months". He has given two talks on TEDx In 2013, he was named a "Traveler of the Year" by "National Geographic" magazine.
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Lois Lowry Lois Lowry (born Lois Ann Hammersberg; March 20, 1937) is an American writer credited with more than thirty children's books. She has won two Newbery Medals, for "Number the Stars" in 1990 and "The Giver" in 1994. For her contribution as a children's writer, she was a finalist in 2000 and U.S. nominee again in 2004, as well as a finalist in 2016 for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest recognition available to creators of children's books. Her book "Gooney Bird Greene" won the 2002 Rhode Island Children's Book Award.
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Carole Rosenthal Carole Rosenthal (born 13 December 1940) is a fiction writer, the author of "It Doesn't Have To Be Me", a collection of short stories.
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Graham Oakley Graham Oakley (born 27 August 1929) is an English writer and illustrator best known for children's books. According to the 2008 Modern Classics edition of "The Church Mice", he lives in Lyme Regis, Dorset and is "mostly retired".
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Ruth Lowinsky Ruth J. Emilie Lowinsky, née Hirsch (1893–1958) was an English society hostess and food writer. Her husband, the surrealist Thomas Esmond Lowinsky, provided illustrations for her first book, "Lovely Food" (1931), published by the Nonesuch Press on hand-made paper.