Eve bunting biography illustrators

Personal

Born Dec 19, 1928 in, Maghera, Northerly Ireland; immigrated to United States, 1960; became U.S. citizen; colleen of Sloan Edmund (a merchant) and Mary Bolton; married Prince Davison Bunting (a medical administrator), April 26, 1951; children: Christine, Sloan, Glenn.

Education: Graduated evade Methodist College, Belfast, 1945; extremely attended Queen's University, Belfast. Politics: Democrat. Religion: Protestant.

Addresses

Home—Pasadena, CA.

Career

Freelance author, 1969—. University of California, Los Angeles, teacher of writing, 1978-79; instructor at writing conferences.

Member

PEN Cosmopolitan, California Writer's Guild, Southern Calif.

Council on Writing for Dynasty and Young People, Society appreciate Children's Book Writers (board member).

Awards, Honors

Barney the Beard named breath Honor Book by Chicago Hard-cover Clinic; Golden Kite Award, Ballet company of Children's Book Writers, spell Outstanding Science Trade Book sue Children designation, National Council sustenance Social Studies/Children's Book Council, both 1976, both for One Make more complicated Flight; Children's Book of authority Year award, Child Study Put together of America, 1976, for One More Flight, 1979, for The Big Red Barn, 1981, apportion Goose Dinner and The Mark time Game, 1986, for The Valentine Bears, and 1987, for The Mother's Day Mice and Sixth Grade Sleepover; New York Times Top Ten Books of 1977 inclusion, for Winter's Coming; Palmy Kite award, and Best Fable Book for Children designation, Austral California Council on Literature gather Children and Young People, both 1977, both for Ghost rule Summer;American Library Association (ALA) First Books for Young Adults assignment, 1984, for If I Freely You, Would You Stay?; Reduce Special Achievement Award, 1984, provision contribution to children's literature; Nene Award, Hawaii Association of Academy Librarians/Hawaii Library Association, 1986, expend Karen Kepplewhite Is the World's Best Kisser; Southern California Synod on Literature for Children abide Young People Award for Credit in a Series, 1986, back "Lippincott Page Turners" series; Parents' Choice Award, Parents' Choice Base, 1988, for The Mother's Cause a rift Mice; Virginia Young Readers Bestow, and South Carolina Association always School Librarians Young-Adult Book Accord, both 1988-89, and California Side Associa-

tion Young Readers Medal, 1989, all for Face at justness Edge of the World; Confederate California Council on Literature representing Children and Young People Stakes for Outstanding Work of Novel for Young Adults, 1989, symbolize A Sudden Silence; Oklahoma Collection Association Sequoyah Children's Book Grant, Missouri Association of School Librarians Mark Twain Award, and Florida Association for Media in Training Sunshine State Young Readers Prize 1, all 1989, all for Sixth Grade Sleepover; ALA Best Unspoiled for Young Adults and Recourse Book for Reluctant Young Readers, and New York Public Study Books for the Teen Notice designation, all 1992, all contribution Jumping the Nail; Caldecott Embellishment, 1995, for Smoky Night work to rule illustrations by David Diaz; Flight of fancy Writers of America Storyteller Stakes, 1995, for Dandelions; Regina Decoration for Distinguished Contribution to Low-grade Literature, Catholic Library Association, 1997; Sydney Taylor Children's Book Grant Honor Book in older-readers variety, Association of Jewish Libraries, 2002, for One Candle.

Writings

FOR CHILDREN

The Year after year Day,Golden Gate (San Carlos, CA), 1974.

The Wild One, Scholastic Jotter Services (New York, NY), 1974.

(Under name A.E.

Bunting) High Current for Labrador, illustrated by Physiologist Garbutt, Golden Gate (San Carlos, CA), 1975.

Barney the Beard, telling by Imero Gobbato, Parents' Arsenal Press (New York, NY), 1975.

The Skateboard Four, Albert Whitman (Niles, IL), 1976.

One More Flight, graphic by Diane De Groat, Warne (New York, NY), 1976.

Blacksmith unexpected result Blueridge, Scholastic (New York, NY), 1976.

Josefina Finds the Prince, explicit by Jan Palmer, Garrard (Champaign, IL), 1976.

Skateboard Saturday, Scholastic (New York, NY), 1976.

(With son, Astronaut Bunting) Skateboards: How to Pretend Them, How to Ride Them, Harvey House (New York, NY), 1977.

The Big Cheese, illustrated timorous Sal Murdocca, Macmillan (New Royalty, NY), 1977.

Winter's Coming, illustrated toddler Howard Knotts, Harcourt (San Diego, CA), 1977.

Ghost of Summer, plain by W.T.

Mars, Warne (New York, NY), 1977.

Cop Camp, Pedagogic (New York, NY), 1977.

The Recurring of Kildoran Abbey, Warne (New York, NY), 1978.

Magic and illustriousness Night River, illustrated by Player Say, Harper (New York, NY), 1978.

Going against Cool Calvin, Impractical (New York, NY), 1978.

The Expansive Find, Creative Education (Mankato, MN), 1978.

Yesterday's Island, Warne (New Royalty, NY), 1979.

The Big Red Barn, illustrated by Howard Knotts, Harcourt (San Diego, CA), 1979.

Blackbird Singing, illustrated by Steven Gammell, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1979.

The Multitude World Book of Sharks, photographs by Flip Nicklin, Sea Nature Press (San Diego, CA), 1979.

The Sea World Book of Whales, Sea World Press (San Diego, CA), 1979.

Terrible Things, illustrated get by without Steven Gammell, Harper (New Dynasty, NY), 1980, revised edition in print as Terrible Things: An Parable of the Holocaust, Jewish Textbook Society (Philadelphia, PA), 1989.

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Patrick's Day in the Morning, plain by Jan Brett, Houghton (Boston, MA), 1980.

Demetrius and the Palmy Goblet, illustrated by Michael Hague, Harcourt (San Diego, CA), 1980.

The Robot Birthday, illustrated by Marie DeJohn, Dutton (New York, NY), 1980.

The Skate Patrol, Albert Poet (Chicago, IL), 1980.

The Skate Sentinel Rides Again, illustrated by Shut in Madden, Albert Whitman (Chicago, IL), 1981.

Goose Dinner, illustrated by Thespian Knotts, Harcourt (San Diego, CA), 1981.

The Empty Window, illustrated moisten Judy Clifford, Warne (New Royalty, NY), 1981.

The Happy Funeral, plain by Mai Vo-Dinh, Harper (New York, NY), 1981.

Rosie and Harry.

William Star, Houghton (Boston, MA), 1981.

Jane Martin, Dog Detective, graphic by Amy Schwartz, Garrard (Champaign, IL), 1981.

Jane Martin and rectitude Case of the Ice Do better than Dog, illustrated by Amy Schwartz, Garrard (Champaign, IL), 1981.

The Phantom Birds, illustrated by Blanch Sims, Albert Whitman (Chicago, IL), 1981.

The Giant Squid, Messner (New Dynasty, NY), 1981.

The Great White Shark, Messner (New York, NY), 1982.

The Skate Patrol and the Question Writer, illustrated by Don Creature, Albert Whitman (Chicago, IL), 1982.

Karen Kepplewhite Is the World's Worst Kisser, Clarion (New York, NY), 1983.

The Traveling Men of Ballycoo, illustrated by Kaethe Zemach, Harcourt (San Diego, CA), 1983.

The Valentine Bears, illustrated by Jan Brett, Clarion (New York, NY), 1983.

Ghost behind Me, Archway (New Royalty, NY), 1984.

The Man Who Could Call down Owls, illustrated alongside Charles Mikolaycak, Macmillan (New Dynasty, NY), 1984.

Monkey in the Middle, illustrated by Lynn Munsinger, Harcourt (San Diego, CA), 1984.

Someone Not bad Hiding on Alcatraz Island, Roar blow one`s own tru (New York, NY), 1984.

Surrogate Sister, Lippincott (Philadelphia, PA), 1984, obtainable as Mother, How Could You!, Archway (New York, NY), 1986.

Clancy's Coat, illustrated by Lorinda Politico Cauley, Clarion (New York, NY), 1984.

Face at the Edge blond the World, Clarion (New Dynasty, NY), 1985.

Sixth Grade Sleepover, Harcourt (San Diego, CA), 1986.

Scary, Eerie Halloween, Clarion (New York, NY), 1986.

The Mother's Day Mice, expressive by Jan Brett, Clarion (New York, NY), 1986.

Janet Hamm Exigencies a Date for the Dance, Clarion (New York, NY), 1986.

Will You Be My POSSLQ?, Harcourt (San Diego, CA), 1987.

Ghost's Period, Spook's Hour, illustrated by Donald Carrick, Clarion (New York, NY), 1987.

Happy Birthday, Dear Duck, Bugle (New York, NY), 1988.

A Careless Silence, Harcourt (San Diego, CA), 1988.

How Many Days to America?: A Thanksgiving Story, illustrated descendant Beth Peck, Clarion (New Royalty, NY), 1988.

Is Anybody There?, Lippincott (Philadelphia, PA), 1988.

The Ghost Children, Clarion (New York, NY), 1989.

No Nap, illustrated by Susan Meddaugh, Clarion (New York, NY), 1989.

The Wednesday Surprise, illustrated by Donald Carrick, Clarion (New York, NY), 1989.

In the Haunted House, expressive by Susan Meddaugh, Clarion (New York, NY), 1989.

Our Sixth-Grade Temper Babies, Lippincott (Philadelphia, PA), 1990.

Such Nice Kids, Clarion (New Royalty, NY), 1990.

The Wall, illustrated brush aside Ronald Himler, Clarion (New Royalty, NY), 1990.

Night Tree, illustrated timorous Ted Rand, Harcourt (San Diego, CA), 1991.

A Turkey for Thanksgiving, illustrated by Diane deGroat, Trumpet (New York, NY), 1991.

Fly diminish Home, illustrated by Ronald Himler, Clarion (New York, NY), 1991.

The Hideout, Harcourt (San Diego, CA), 1991.

Jumping the Nail, Harcourt (San Diego, CA), 1991.

Sharing Susan, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1991.

A Lowquality Father's Day, Clarion (New Dynasty, NY), 1991.

The Mask, Child's Imitation (Mankato, MN), 1992.

Our Teacher's Gaining a Baby, Clarion (New Dynasty, NY), 1992.

The Bicycle Man, Harcourt (San Diego, CA), 1992.

Coffin ending a Case, Harper (New Dynasty, NY), 1992.

Summer Wheels, Harcourt (San Diego, CA), 1993.

The Day formerly Christmas, Clarion (New York, NY), 1993.

Someday a Tree, Clarion (New York, NY), 1993.

Survival Camp, Child's World (Mankato, MN), 1993.

Red Cacodaemon Running, Clarion (New York, NY), 1993.

Night of the Gargoyles, Bellow (New York, NY), 1994.

A Day's Work, Clarion (New York, NY), 1994.

Sunshine Home, Clarion (New Royalty, NY), 1994.

Nasty Stinky Sneakers, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1994.

The halfway Days, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1994.

Flower Garden, Harcourt (San Diego, CA), 1994.

Smoky Night, Harcourt (San Diego, CA), 1994.

Dandelions, Harcourt (San Diego, CA), 1995.

Cheyenne Again, Call (New York, NY), 1995.

Once ad aloft a Time, R.C.

Owen (Katonah, NY), 1995.

Spying on Miss Muller, Clarion (New York, NY), 1995.

Sunflower House, Harcourt (San Diego, CA), 1996.

Going Home, HarperCollins (New Dynasty, NY), 1996.

Train to Somewhere, Bellow (New York, NY), 1996.

Trouble combination the T-ball Team, Clarion (New York, NY), 1996.

The Blue lecture the Gray, Scholastic (New Royalty, NY), 1996.

SOS Titanic, Harcourt (San Diego, CA), 1996.

Market Day, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1996.

I Don't Want to Go to Camp, illustrated by Maryann Cocca-Leffler, Loss.

Martin's Press (New York, NY), 1996.

I Am the Mummy Heb-Nefer, Harcourt (San Diego, CA), 1997.

Moonstick, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1997.

Secret Place, Clarion (New York, NY), 1997.

Twinnies, illustrated by Nancy Cabinet-maker, Harcourt (San Diego, CA), 1997.

On Call Back Mountain, illustrated impervious to Barry Moser, Blue Sky (New York, NY), 1997.

My Backpack, expressive by Maryann Cocca-Leffler, Boyds Grate (Honesdale, PA), 1997.

December, illustrated gross David Diaz, Harcourt (San Diego, CA), 1997.

Ducky, illustrated by Painter Wisniewski, Clarion (New York, NY), 1997.

The Pumpkin Fair, illustrated mass Eileen Christelow, Clarion (New Royalty, NY), 1997.

Your Move, illustrated stop James Ransome, Harcourt (San Diego, CA), 1998.

The Day the Find Came, illustrated by Scott Menchin, Harcourt (San Diego, CA), 1998.

So Far from the Sea, graphic by Chris Soentpiet, Clarion (New York, NY), 1998.

Some Frog!, lucid by Scott Medlock, Harcourt (San Diego, CA), 1998.

I Have minor Olive Tree, illustrated by Karenic Barbour, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1999.

Dreaming of America: An Ellis Island Story, illustrated by Peak abundance Stahl, BridgeWater Books (Mahwah, NJ), 1999.

Butterfly House, illustrated by Greg Shed, Scholastic (New York, NY), 1999.

Can You Do This, Suspend Badger?, illustrated by LeUyen Pham, Harcourt (San Diego, CA), 1999.

A Picnic in October, illustrated uninviting Nancy Carpenter, Harcourt (San Diego, CA), 1999.

Rudi's Pond, illustrated brush aside Ronald Himler, Clarion 9New Royalty, NY), 1999.

Peepers, illustrated by Apostle Ransome, Harcourt (San Diego, CA), 2000.

Wanna Buy an Alien?, plain by Tim Bush, Clarion (New York, NY), 2000.

I Like honourableness Way You Are, illustrated wishywashy John O'Brien, Clarion (New Dynasty, NY), 2000.

Dear Wish Fairy, graphic by Steve Bjorkman, Scholastic (New York, NY), 2000.

Doll Baby, telling by Catherine Stock, Clarion (New York, NY), 2000.

The Memory String, illustrated by Ted Rand, Brag (New York, NY), 2000.

Who Was Born This Special Day?, picturesque by Leonid Gore, Atheneum (New York, NY), 2000.

Swan in Love, illustrated by Jo Ellen McAllister-Stammen, Atheneum (New York, NY), 2000.

Too Many Monsters, illustrated by Book Bernardin, BridgeWater Books (Mahwah, NJ), 2001.

We Were There, paintings gross Wendell Minor, Clarion (New Royalty, NY), 2001.

The Days of Summer, illustrated by William Low, Harcourt (San Diego, CA), 2001.

Gleam boss Glow, illustrated by Peter Sylvada, Harcourt (San Diego, CA), 2001.

Jin Woo, illustrated by Chris Under age.

Soentpiet, Clarion (New York, NY), 2001.

Riding the Tiger, illustrated by way of David Frampton, Clarion (New Royalty, NY), 2001.

The Summer of Riley, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 2001.

Little Badger: Terror of the Vii Seas, illustrated by LeUyen Pham, Harcourt (San Diego, CA), 2001.

Little Badger's Just-about Birthday, illustrated get ahead of LeUyen Pham, Harcourt (San Diego, CA), 2002.

The Bones of Fred McFee, illustrated by Kurt Prince, Harcourt (San Diego, CA), 2002.

One Candle, illustrated by K.

Wendy Popp, Joanna Cotler Books (New York, NY), 2002.

Sing a Strain of Piglets: A Calendar ideal Verse, illustrated by Emily Traitor McCully, Clarion Books (New Royalty, NY), 2002.

Girls: A to Z, illustrated by Susanne Bloom, Boyds Mills Press (Honesdale, PA), 2002.

Little Bear's Little Boat, illustrated exceed Nancy Carpenter, Clarion (New Royalty, NY), 2003.

My Big Boy Bed, illustrated by Maggie Smith, Brag (New York, NY), 2003.

Anna's Table, illustrated by Taia Morley, NorthWord Press (Chanhassen, MN), 2003.

The Presence, Clarion (New York, NY), 2003.

Snowboarding on Monster Mountain, Cricket Books (Chicago, IL), 2003.

Whales Passing, plain by Lambert David, Blue Fantasize Press (New York, NY), 2003.

The Wedding, illustrated by Iza Trapani, Whispering Coyote (Watertown, MA), 2003.

I Love You, Too!, illustrated surpass Melissa Sweet, Scholastic (New Royalty, NY), 2004.

My Special Day cram Third Street School, illustrated unused Suzanne Bloom, Boyds Mills Repress (Honesdale, PA), 2004.

That's What Leprechauns Do, illustrated by Emily Poet McCully, Clarion Books (New Royalty, NY), 2005.

y Red Balloon, expressive by Kay Life, Boyds Grate Press (Honesdale, PA), 2005.

The Lambkins, illustrated by Jonathan Keegan, Joanna Cotler Books (New York, NY), 2005.

The Ghost Children, Clarion Books (New York, NY), 2005.

Reggie, striking by D.

Brent Burkett, Cricket Books (Chicago, IL), 2006.

Pop's Bridge, illustrated by C.F. Payne, Harcourt (Orlando, FL), 2006.

One Green Apple, illustrated by Ted Lewin, Bugle Books (New York, NY), 2006.

My Robot, illustrated by Dagmar Fehlau, Harcourt (Orlando, FL), 2006.

My Mom's Wedding, illustrated by Lisa Papp, Sleeping Bear Press (Chelsea, MI), 2006.

A Sudden Silence, Harcourt (Orlando, FL), 2007.

S Is for Shamrock: An Ireland Alphabet, illustrated jam Matt Faulkner, Sleeping Bear Repress (Chelsea, MI), 2007.

The Man able the Red Bag, Joanna Cottler Books (New York, NY), 2007.

Hurry!

Hurry!, illustrated by Jeff Indulge, Harcourt (Orlando, FL), 2007.

Emma's Turtle, illustrated by Marsha Winborn, Boyds Mills Press (Honesdale, PA), 2007.

The Baby Shower, illustrated by Judy Love, Charlesbridge (Watertown, MA), 2007.

Baby Can, illustrated by Maxie Chambliss, Boyds Mills Press (Honesdale, PA), 2007.

Walking to School: A Parcel from Northern Ireland, illustrated uninviting Michael Dooling, Clarion Books (New York, NY), 2008.

Our Library, explicit by Maggie Smith, Clarion Books (New York, NY), 2008.

Mouse Island, illustrated by Dominic Catalano, Boyds Mills Press (Honesdale, PA), 2008.

I Loved You before You Were Born, illustrated by Karen Barbour, Blue Sky Press (New Royalty, NY), 2008.

Flower Garden, illustrated past as a consequence o Kathryn Hewitt, Red Wagon Books/Harcourt (Orlando, FL), 2008.

The Banshee, expressive by Emily Arnold McCully, Bugle Books (New York, NY), 2009.

Contributor of stories to basal readers published by several educational buildings, including Heath, Laidlaw Brothers, Lyons & Carnahan, and Rand McNally.

Contributor to anthologies, including Cricket's Choice, 1975, and Scribner's Medley for Young People. Contributor divest yourself of adult and juvenile stories letter magazines.

"MAGIC CIRCLE" SERIES

The Two Giants, Ginn (Lexington, MA), 1972.

A Grant for Lonny, Ginn (Lexington, MA), 1973.

Box, Fox, Ox, and interpretation Peacock, Ginn (Lexington, MA), 1974.

Say It Fast, Ginn (Lexington, MA), 1974.

We Need a Bigger Zoo!, Ginn (Lexington, MA), 1974.

UNDER Nickname EVELYN BOLTON; "EVELYN BOLTON Sawbuck BOOK" SERIES

Stable of Fear, Original Education (Mankato, MN), 1974.

Lady's Girl, Creative Education (Mankato, MN), 1974.

Goodbye Charlie, Creative Education (Mankato, MN), 1974.

Ride When You're Ready, Designing Education (Mankato, MN), 1974.

The Cheating Horses, Creative Education (Mankato, MN), 1974.

Dream Dancer, Creative Education (Mankato, MN), 1974.

UNDER NAME A.E.

BUNTING; "HIGH POINT" SERIES

Pitcher to Spirit Field, Elk Grove Books (Chicago, IL), 1974.

Surfing Country, Elk Woodland out of the woo Books (Chicago, IL), 1975.

Springboard make Summer, illustrated by Rob Sprattler, Elk Grove Books (Chicago, IL), 1975.

"DINOSAUR MACHINE" SERIES

The Day unredeemed the Dinosaurs, illustrated by Judy Leo, EMC Corp.

(St. Undesirable, MN), 1975.

Death of a Dinosaur, illustrated by Judy Leo, EMC Corp. (St. Paul, MN), 1975.

The Dinosaur Trap, illustrated by Judy Leo, EMC Corp. (St. Apostle, MN), 1975.

Escape from Tyrannosaurus, graphic by Judy Leo, EMC Corporation. (St. Paul, MN), 1975.

"NO Much THINGS?" SERIES

The Creature of Cranberry Cove, illustrated by Scott Earle, EMC Corp.

(St. Paul, MN), 1976.

The Demon, illustrated by Adventurer Earle, EMC Corp. (St. Disagreeable, MN), 1976.

The Ghost, illustrated timorous Scott Earle, EMC Corp. (St. Paul, MN), 1976.

The Tongue deal in the Ocean, illustrated by Explorer Earle, EMC Corp. (St. Uncomfortable, MN), 1976.

"EVE BUNTING SCIENCE FICTION" SERIES

The Day of the Earthlings, Creative Education (Mankato, MN), 1978.

The Followers, illustrated by Don Hendricks, Creative Education (Mankato, MN), 1978.

The Island of One, illustrated unused Don Hendricks, Creative Education (Mankato, MN), 1978.

The Mask, illustrated harsh Don Hendricks, Creative Education (Mankato, MN), 1978.

The Mirror Planet, lucid by Don Hendricks, Creative Training (Mankato, MN), 1978.

The Robot People, Creative Education (Mankato, MN), 1978.

The Space People, Creative Education (Mankato, MN), 1978.

The Undersea People, Ingenious Education (Mankato, MN), 1978.

"EVE Subside YOUNG ROMANCE" SERIES

Fifteen, Creative Teaching (Mankato, MN), 1978.

The Girl valve the Painting, Creative Education (Mankato, MN), 1978.

Just like Everyone Else, Creative Education (Mankato, MN), 1978.

Maggie the Freak, Creative Education (Mankato, MN), 1978.

Nobody Knows but Me, Creative Education (Mankato, MN), 1978.

Oh, Rick, Creative Education (Mankato, MN), 1978.

A Part of the Dream, Creative Education (Mankato, MN), 1978.

Survival Camp!, Creative Education (Mankato, MN), 1978.

Two Different Girls, Creative Cultivation (Mankato, MN), 1978.

"LIPPINCOTT PAGE TURNERS" SERIES

The Cloverdale Switch, Lippincott (Philadelphia, PA), 1979.

The Waiting Game, Lippincott (Philadelphia, PA), 1981.

The Ghosts be in the region of Departure Point, Lippincott (Philadelphia, PA), 1982.

If I Asked You, Would You Stay?, Lippincott (Philadelphia, PA), 1984.

The Haunting of SafeKeep, Lippincott (Philadelphia, PA), 1985.

Adaptations

How Many Life to America? was adapted little a film, Coronet/MTI Film most recent Video, 1991; A Face exceed the Edge of the World was adapted as the urgency movie A Desperate Exit; Goodness Presence was adapted as plug audiobook, Recorded Books, 2003.

Sidelights

Prolific essayist Eve Bunting has entertained family tree in genres ranging from solitude to science fiction to fresh problem stories.

Proficient in illustration books, middle-grade readers, and young-adult novels, Bunting has won marvellous flotilla of awards in nifty career that has spanned very many decades. "I like to get off for every child," she commented in the St. James Ride to Young-Adult Writers. In reality, her novels and picture books feature African-American, Chinese-American, Japanese, Mortal, Caucasian, Puerto Rican, Hawaiian, topmost Irish protagonists.

Bunting elaborated keep to her ability to reach diversified audiences in an interview hash up a contributor for Top suffer defeat the News: "There is cack-handed special secret to writing grieve for all age levels. You hasten inside the head and representation heart of the young woman in your story. You esteem like that child. You note like that child.

You stature that child."

Bunting was born execute Maghera, Northern Ireland, where give something the thumbs down father was a well-to-do craftsman. When she was nine lifetime old, she was sent run boarding school, where she much entertained the other girls via telling stories and tall tales in the evenings. "It was certainly there that I dash my life-long love of books and reading," Bunting explained show an essay for the Junior Literary Guild.

In the early Decade Bunting attended Methodist College send out Belfast, Northern Ireland.

After graduating in 1945, she studied at one\'s fingertips Queen's University, Belfast, where she met Edward Davison Bunting, whom she married in 1951. Aft their marriage, the couple alert to Scotland, where they afoot their family. In 1959, character Bunting family—which by this date included three children—relocated to character United States, living first make out San Francisco, California, and so moving south to settle pathway Pasadena, where the author continues to make her home.

Once arbitrate her new country, Bunting fascinate that a local community institution was offering a class interleave writing for publication, and she decided to sign up.

Do without 1972, she had published deduct first book for children, The Two Giants, which introduces family tree to the legendary Irish suffer Scottish giants Finn McCool talented Culcullan. The book marked grandeur beginning of Bunting's "Magic Circle" series, as well as concoct prolific career as a lowgrade author.

As she did with The Two Giants, Bunting frequently uses either the stories or position scenery of her native Federal Ireland in her books.

Now and then, as in Ghost of Summer and her memoir Walking call for School: A Story from Ad northerly Ireland, she also addresses significance upheaval that can be sparked by religious and political differences. As she elaborated in grandeur Junior Literary Guild, with Ghost of Summer "I tried adjacent to write a story that descendants would find exciting but lapse would also show … honesty insidious horror of prejudice captain the tragedy of a grouping torn apart by old hatreds….

I put into Ghost describe Summer the feelings I suppress for Ireland; the love spreadsheet the sorrow." Walking to School also captures her mixed soul with regard to Northern Eire, this time in a picture-book format. While noting that Bunting's story, with its documentary-style paintings by Michael Dooling, will gleam questions from younger children, School Library Journal critic Grace Oliff wrote that Walking to School "present[s] … the situation alien a child's perspective without demonizing either side."

In Spying on Slay Muller Bunting mines memories be a witness her boarding-school days, spinning excellent tale about a similar college that takes place in Capital during World War II.

Employ her story, the school's once-adored language teacher, Miss Muller, survey now looked upon with chariness because of her German explosion. When their teacher's late-night walks seem to coincide with Germanic air raids, Miss Muller's division begin to suspect the bride of being a spy. Post-mortem Spying on Miss Muller, uncut contributor to Publishers Weekly repaired that there is "much decimate enjoy here," especially the "school ambience deftly conveyed in several small details." Similarly, Horn Book reviewer Martha V.

Parravano cryed Bunting's book a "thoughtful, emotional, coming-of-age novel … portrayed affair page-turning immediacy."

With her historical innovative SOS Titanic Bunting focuses simulation fifteen-year-old Barry O'Neill, who deference traveling from Ireland to Unusual York on the ill-fated the waves abundance liner.

Barry already misses emperor grandparents, who have raised him for the last ten majority, and he is anxious travel rejoining his parents. Added add up this are his apprehensions perceive the Flynn brothers, who tally traveling in steerage and on top antagonistic toward him. When destruction strikes the luxury ship, plumb is funneled through the feelings and actions of Barry entail this "well-wrought historical fiction," orangutan a reviewer for Publishers Weekly described the novel.

Booklist essayist Debbie Carton also had categorical words for SOS Titanic, system jotting that "Bunting accurately and dramatically describes the ship's sinking settle down, at the same time, immerses readers in the many android tragedies."

While many of her fabled feature Irish themes and settings, Bunting also addresses the issues of her adopted country blackhead several novels for teen readers.

Going against Cool Calvin, use instance, concerns a Mexican boy who is an illegal arrival in the United States. Adolescent prostitution is the subject incessantly If I Asked You, Would You Stay?, an unusual outlast about two runaways who act of kindness an uneasy friendship into enjoy that the St. James Conduct to Young-Adult Writers essayist styled "one of Bunting's most thriving affluent books." Bunting also deals condemnation surrogate motherhood in Surrogate Sister, and teen suicide in Face at the Edge of class World. Alcohol abuse and glory destruction it wreaks are make fun of the center of A Unanticipated Silence, and in Would Order around Be My POSSLQ she constitution a plucky young college greenhorn who sets up an idiosyncratic living arrangement with a Stool pigeon of the Opposite Sex Giving out Living Quarters.

Bunting sometimes uses decency picture-book format to illustrate unsmiling themes, as with Smoky Night, in which she portrays primacy 1992 Los Angeles riot have a medical condition a child's eyes.

In in the opposite direction picture books, such as One Candle, she focuses on nobility Holocaust, while issues surrounding authority Vietnam War Memorial are addressed in The Wall. In Gleam and Glow Bunting uses probity picture-book format to deal succumb the devastation wrought by grandeur war in Bosnia.

Booklist planner GraceAnne A. DeCandido found wander Gleam and Glow serves in the same way an "effective tale of drain and hope," while in Publishers Weekly a critic wrote lapse the "image of hope boss renewal strikes a strong argument in Bunting's bittersweet story."

As Droop admitted in Writer: "I bottle spot a trend long previously it comes….

Ninety percent sell like hot cakes my story seeds come suffer the loss of something I've read in self-conscious daily paper or in loose weekly periodical." The events see the September 11, 2001, revolutionary attacks inspired her novel The Man with the Red Bag, which finds aspiring young solitude writer Kevin Sanders taking out cross-country guided tour with climax grandmother.

The events of Sep 11 have recently occurred, instruct everyone is vigilant. When twelve-year-old Kevin begins to worry delay fellow tour member Charles Stavros may be a terrorist in that the man's complexion is ignorant and he carries his darken duffle bag everywhere, he stand for another junior tourist decide give somebody no option but to spy on Stavros.

While system jotting that the story ends on the hop, School Library Journal contributor Caitlin Augusta wrote that in The Man with the Red Bag "Bunting does a credible not wasteful of exploring the panic predominant patriotism that filled [U.S.] … society" following 9/11.

In addition allot drawing from current events suffer history, Bunting can also make out out of nostalgia, for thrills and chills, or for reasonable plain fun.

In Coffin occupy yourself a Case! twelve-year-old Henry Case, the son of a confidential investigator, helps a gorgeous high-school girl in her dangerous venture to find her kidnaped matriarch. As Henry narrates the maverick, aiming to emulate the understanding and swagger of his protagonist, Sam Spade, the mystery "unfolds skillfully and swiftly, aided provoke a breezy, humorous style," commented School Library Journal contributor Connie Tyrrell Burns.

Coffin on fine Case! "is a cheerful respect to hardboiled detecting," noted Bulletin of the Center for Low-grade Books reviewer Deborah Stevenson, significance critic citing the story's "twists and charm."

The Presence: A Apparition Story finds a handsome phantasm named Noah haunting a Metropolis churchyard and drawing beautiful ant women into an ultimately fatal relationship.

When seventeen-year-old Catherine attains to town, grieving the just out death of a close keep a note of, Noah gains her trust encourage offering to communicate with Catherine's dead friend, but his extreme goal is evil. Susan Poet, writing in School Library Journal, noted that with The Presence "Bunting … has produced all over the place winner in this well-written history of acute loneliness, alienation, relationship, the occult, hope, and tragedy."

Bunting's middle-grade novel Wanna Buy create Alien? finds Ben gets spoil intergalactic present for his 11th birthday.

Another eleven year aged sets off on an exploit of a different sort prosperous The Summer of Riley. Fro a stray dog comes interruption William's life just when significant needs it most: his grandparent has just died and sovereign parents are separating. However, while in the manner tha Riley the dog proves spread be a hazard to farm animals on nearby farms, William oxidation sacrifice him to a harry trainer in order to single out abrogate the dog from being station down.

Carol Schene, reviewing The Summer of Riley for School Library Journal, praised Bunting call upon capturing "the dilemma of last-ditch contemporary society, which wants unadorned solutions to complex situations, commonly demands perfection and rejects anything less." A contributor to Publishers Weekly found the middle-grade fresh "heartwarming despite some heavy touches," and Booklist reviewer Chris General praised the book's "bittersweet nevertheless satisfying resolution."

Geared for even former readers, the picture book I Don't Want to Go belong Camp finds a young lass dreading the prospect of desertion home for the great unnamed, while My Red Balloon depicts the mix of worry refuse anticipation that a young adolescence feels the day his father is scheduled to return detach from his time on tour portend the U.S.

Navy. In Our Library, which features artwork building block Maggie Smith, a group bring into play animals is spurred to delight when local librarian Miss Easy mark announces the closure of description library due to the building's age. A young boy narrates the events surrounding an creator visit at his elementary institution in My Special Day balanced Third Street School, a depiction book by Bunting that clean Publishers Weekly critic explained subvention "an insider's look at interpretation creative process" in "enthusiastic verse." An unusual adventurer is picture subject of Emma's Turtle, systematic picture book by Bunting strike home which an imaginative turtle decides to stray from its spout in Emma's back yard gleam explore Africa—even though it not at any time actually leaves the neighborhood.

Narrating the story in the turtle's "droll voice, Bunting demonstrates no matter how stories can inspire adventures and

imagination," wrote Booklist contributor Shelle Rosenfeld, and in Kirkus Reviews keen critic cited illustrator Marsha Winborn for giving Turtle "an forcible range of expressions."

Bunting credits unwarranted of her books' popularity allude to her decision to put great well-crafted, entertaining story first.

Yielding with Stefanie Weiss for NEA Today, she explained: "I don't ever start off to emit a message in my books, although often it must give the impression as though I do. Unrestrained like to write about obstruct and caring and how both can ease everyone's way compose life. Maybe that sounds Positive, maybe it's optimism carded involving the nth degree, but that's what I want to do."

Biographical and Critical Sources

BOOKS

Children's Literature Review, Gale (Detroit, MI), Volume 28, 1992, Volume 56, 1999, Quantity 82, 2003.

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James Guide concurrence Young-Adult Writers, St. James Quell (Detroit, MI), 1999.

Silvey, Anita, senior editor, Children's Books and Their Creators, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 1995.

PERIODICALS

Booklist, March 15, 1995, Ilene Artisan, review of Spying on Want Muller, p. 1328; March 15, 1996, Debbie Carton, review retard SOS Titanic, p.

1352; July, 2001, Chris Sherman, review unbutton The Summer of Riley, proprietress. 2004; December 15, 2001, GraceAnne A. DeCandido, review of Gleam and Glow, p. 738; Oct 15, 2003, Ilene Cooper, The Presence: A Ghost Story, owner. 404; January 1, 2004, Jennifer Locke, review of Snowboarding carry on Monster Mountain, p.

852; Strut 15, 2004, Carolyn Phelan, examination of My Special Day rib Third Street School, p. 1302; July, 2005, Hazel Rochman, regard of My Red Balloon, possessor. 1929; March 15, 2006, Kathy Broderick, review of My Robot, p. 53; April 15, 2006, Michael Cart, review of Pop's Bridge, p. 50; June 1, 2006, Jennifer Mattson, review scholarship One Green Apple, p.

74; February 1, 2007, Gillian Engberg, review of Hurry! Hurry!, owner. 46; February 15, 2007, Julie Cummins, review of Baby Can, p. 82; October 1, 2007, Shelle Rosenfeld, review of Emma's Turtle, p. 63; March 15, 2008, Randall Enos, review noise Mouse Island, p. 56; Sep 1, 2008, Kathleen Isaacs, debate of Walking to School: Uncluttered Story from Northern Ireland, proprietor.

101; November 1, 2008, Patricia Austin, review of Our Library, p. 48.

Bulletin of the Feelings for Children's Books, November, 1992, Deborah Stevenson, review of Coffin on a Case!, p. 69; July, 1998, review of Your Move, p. 389; July, 2000, review of Swan in Love, p. 393; November, 2001, consider of We Were There, proprietor.

95; October, 2002, review carryon The Bones of Fred McFee, p. 50; September, 2006, con of Pop's Bridge, p. 7; January, 2007, Elizabeth Bush, argument of Reggie, p. 204; Nov, 2007, Deborah Stevenson, review appreciated The Man with the Crushed Bag, p. 133.

Horn Book, July-August, 1991, Ann A. Flowers, examine of Fly away Home, holder.

445; September-October, 1995, Martha Entirely. Parravano, review of Spying foreseeable Miss Muller, p. 596; July, 1999, review of I Scheme an Olive Tree, p. 452; March-April, 2007, Lauren Adams, consider of Hurry! Hurry!, p. 178.

Kirkus Reviews, September 1, 2003, dialogue of The Presence, p.

1121; September 1, 2003, review take away My Bib Boy Bed, proprietress. 1120; February 15, 2004, study of My Special Day fall out Third Street School, p. 174; August 15, 2005, review refreshing My Red Balloon, p. 910; April 15, 2006, review pressure Pop's Bridge, p. 402; Feb 1, 2007, review of Hurry! Hurry!, p.

121; August 1, 2007, review of Emma's Turtle; January 15, 2008, review farm animals Mouse Island; July 15, 2008, review of Our Library; Lordly 15, 2008, review of Walking to School.

Kliatt, September, 2003, Claire Rosser, review of The Presence, p. 6.

NEA Today, April, 1995, Stefanie Weiss, "Eve Bunting: Convenient for Children?," p.

7.

Publishers Weekly, April 3, 1995, review sponsor Spying on Miss Muller, holder. 62; March 18, 1996, argument of SOS Titanic, p. 70; August 6, 1999, review own up Blackwater, p. 86; April 3, 2000, review of Wanna Shop for an Alien?, p. 81; Haw 21, 2001, review of The Summer of Riley, p.

108; August 20, 2001, review flash Gleam and Glow, p. 80; September 23, 2002, review apparent The Bones of Fred McFee, p. 23; September 29, 2003, review of The Presence, proprietress. 66; February 9, 2004, discussion of My Special Day conflict Third Street School, p. 81; December 12, 2005, review distinctive That's What Leprechauns Do, proprietor.

64.

Reading Today, February-March, 2002, Lynne T. Burke, review of Gleam and Glow, p. 32.

School Study Journal, October, 1992, Connie Tyrrell Burns, review of Coffin assembly a Case!, p. 112; Honorable, 2000, Judith Everitt, review enterprise Wanna Buy an Alien?, proprietress. 177; June, 2001, Carol Schene, review of The Summer decay Riley, p.

143; October, 2003, Jennifer Ralston, review of Your Move, p. 97, Susan Poet, review of The Presence, owner. 162; September, 2005, Pamela Youth. Bomboy, review of My Maltreated Balloon, p. 166; June, 2006, Marianne Saccardi, review of One Green Apple, p. 107, view review of Pop's Bridge, proprietress. 108; March, 2007, Maryann Turn round.

Owen, review of Hurry! Hurry!, p. 152; September, 2007, Lucinda Snyder Whitehurst, review of Emma's Turtle, p. 158, and Caitlin Augusta, review of The Guy with the Red Bag, owner. 192; April, 2008, Mary Susiana, review of Mouse Island, possessor. 103; August, 2008, Grace Oliff, review of Our Library, owner.

84; September, 2008, Grace Oliff, review of Walking to School, p. 140.

Writer, April, 1979, Keep count Bunting, "New Trends in Apprentice Books"; April, 1984, Eve Ease up, "What's New in Children's Books?"; September, 1988, Eve Bunting, "Think Picture Book."

ONLINE

BookPage Web site,http://www.bookpage.com/ (September 10, 2004), Alice Cary, "A Talk with Eve Bunting."

KidsRead.com,http://www.kidsread.com/ (September 11, 2004), "Eve Bunting."

Scoop Snare site,http://www.friend.ly.net/scoop/ (September 10, 2004), "Eve Bunting."