Talk:Judith Viorst

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Untitled[edit]

Hello. I came upon the talk page and blanked out a Wiki drawing with what appeared to be inappropriate language about the person in question. --leahtwosaints (talk) 10:03, 30 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I recently was researching this author and came upon a picture of her on Poets.org. It did not have any sources cited on it, so I was wondering if it would be usable, the link to the picture is here

--69.149.25.82 (talk) 22:09, 29 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Art Buchwald[edit]

In the book, "Necessary Losses", Judith Viorst says that Art Buchwald's mother died when he was born. On-line it says that she lived and was later put into a mental institution. Which statement is correct?

Marian Kearney —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.175.34.252 (talk) 16:25, 10 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Contact[edit]

hello...imm here to ask where Judith Viorst lives or where i can contact her to send a letter.Please respond!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.212.15.55 (talk) 03:33, 24 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

We are not in that business. Try one of her publishers, which you may find via Google. --P64 (talk) 17:42, 8 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Interest Level, Reading Level[edit]

Scholastic reports this for the Alexander omnibus Absolutely, Positively Alexander

Interest Level

Grades K - 2

Reading Level

Grade level Equivalent: 3.6 [of 1.0 to 12.9]
Lexile Measure®: 580L [of 200L-1600L]
DRA: 28 [of A,1-80]
Guided Reading: L [of A-Z]

That publisher provides almost no biographical information for Viorst or the second illustrator Robin Preiss Glasser; none for the first illustrator Ray Cruz (deceased?).

--P64 (talk) 17:42, 8 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Selected works[edit]

At the top of the section I inserted data* for all* seven books by Viorst published before 1969, which has been the earliest one listed here. --relying thruout on the Library of Congress Online Catalog.

The last is a children's picture book (32p unpaged, color illus) that certainly belongs in the next subsection. Most of the first six are about 200 page; most illustrated; most for children (maybe all but that is not clear from the linked catalog records). All but one of them are science/nature non-fiction books and I suppose The Village Square is non-fiction too.

The LC online catalog is now down (as of 18:30 and 19:10 UTC).
I put all six URL in this page but didn't completely check them for info about the books. I didn't look at catalog data after 1968. Possibly there should be a subsection for science/nature children's educational books, or something similar. Probably the prose biography should explain that her career as a (published) writer began in that field.

--P64 (talk) 19:12, 8 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]