All day there was time to swim and fish and mess around outside, and every night, there was time to read. I know those quiet summers helped me begin to think like a writer. Two things were amazing about that paper. This should be published! Bernice Rappel, my 12th grade English teacher. That praise sent me off to Northwestern University feeling like I was a pretty good writer, and occasionally professors there also encouraged me and complimented the essays I was required to write as a literature major.
I learned to play guitar and began writing songs, but again, only when I felt like it. While I was still at Northwestern, a professor who taught at a nearby college saw some of my writing and liked it enough to invite me to teach creative writing at a series of summer high school workshops she had organized.
And that was when I learned how hard it is to be a teacher, and also how rewarding and fun it can be. After graduating from Northwestern I earned a Masters of Arts in Teaching at National Louis University, and then taught in the public schools north of Chicago for seven years—fourth grade for two years, eighth grade English for three years, and high school English for two years. Those were invaluable times. I loved getting to know so many people, having a year-long relationship with bright, funny kids, and also getting to read good books and think about big ideas together.
I got married my first year of teaching, and during my teaching years my wife had a career in professional theater in Chicago. We bought our first home, and then our second home, had our first son, and then school enrollments began declining in our area. And so we sold our home, packed up our two-and-a-half year old son, and moved to New York City so that I could develop a truly stable career as a singer-songwriter.
After the songwriting came my first job in publishing. I worked for a small publisher who specialized in how-to books, the kind of books that have photos with informative captions below each one. The book in which my name first appeared in print is called A Country Christmas Treasury. It was while working for this company--first called Alphabet Press and then Picture Book Studio--that I began writing picture book texts. As sales manager, I got to work with a terrific crew of people who quickly taught me about the publishing business.
As editorial director, I got to work with wonderfully talented authors, illustrators, and author-illustrators. I met people there who became life-long friends.
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Bragdon, a small company that produced how-to books. Clements claimed that his name first appeared in print on the acknowledgments page for a craft book entitled A Country Christmas Treasury by Allen Bragdon A new opportunity in publishing, at Natick, Mass. Clements also tried his hand at writing his own work, resulting in the picture book Bird Adalbert , published under the pen name Andrew Elborn Picture Book Studio, Soon after, he would write the book that changed his career.
As Clements told the story many times, the spark for Frindle arose from a presentation he gave at an elementary school in about the way words work. The book has sold 8. Clements subsequently went on to write numerous other school stories for middle grade readers, as well as more picture books, and the YA trilogy begun with Things Not Seen Philomel, In all, he created more than 80 books for young people.
Showing them new ways to see their surroundings—and others within those surroundings—Andrew laced compassion and a keen eye for detail within all of his many works. The compassion was always a given, and never ever didactic.
But the detailing shifted vastly from story to story as each book he wrote was singular. It was his care he gave to exacting measurements, maps and architecture that I found especially fascinating. He could surround a mystery, as in his Keepers of the School novels, on the measurement of a hidden room, the placement of a statue, the sound of a hollow, the trajectory of a wrecking ball. That the seemingly smallest details, the smallest actions, could matter so much, is what Andrew reinforced again and again.
Andrew Clements, in innumerable ways, reminded us all the pen was mightier than the sword, quite literally. In a note to colleagues, Corey shared some reflections of her author.
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