Author

Nancy Churnin

http://www.nancychurnin.com/

Biography

Nancy Churnin is the award-winning author of eight picture book biographies: The William Hoy Story: How a Deaf Baseball Player Changed the Game; Manjhi Moves a Mountain; Charlie Takes His Shot: How Charlie Sifford Broke the Color Barrier in Golf; Irving Berlin, the Immigrant Boy Who Made America Sing; The Queen and the First Christmas Tree: Queen Charlotte’s Gift to England; For Spacious Skies: Katharine Lee Bates and ‘America the Beautiful’ and Beautiful Shades of Brown, How Laura Wheeler Waring Painted Her World. Collectively her books have won a Sydney Taylor Notable, the South Asia Book Award, two Notable Social Studies Books for Young Readers, the Silver Eureka, the ILA-CBC Children’s Choices list, Junior Library Guild and more. A former theater critic for The Dallas Morning News, Nancy is a graduate of Harvard University, with a master’s from Columbia University School of Journalism. She lives in North Texas with her husband and a dog named Dog.

For Spacious Skies: Katharine Lee Bates and the Inspiration for "America the Beautiful"
Martin & Anne: The Kindred Spirits of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Anne Frank
The Queen and the First Christmas Tree
Irving Berlin: The Immigrant Boy Who Made America Sing
Charlie Takes His Shot
Manjhi Moves a Mountain
The William Hoy Story: How a Deaf Baseball Player Changed the Game
For Spacious Skies: Katharine Lee Bates and the Inspiration for "America the Beautiful"
Martin & Anne: The Kindred Spirits of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Anne Frank
The Queen and the First Christmas Tree
Irving Berlin: The Immigrant Boy Who Made America Sing

Books by Nancy Churnin

    picture • 32 Pages
    Manjhi Moves a Mountain
    Nancy Churnin, Danny Popovici
    picture • 32 Pages
    The William Hoy Story: How a Deaf Baseball Player Changed the Game
    Nancy Churnin, Jez Tuya
    picture • 32 Pages
    Irving Berlin: The Immigrant Boy Who Made America Sing
    Nancy Churnin, James Rey Sanchez
    picture • 32 Pages
    The Queen and the First Christmas Tree
    Nancy Churnin, Luisa Uribe
    picture • 32 Pages
    Martin & Anne: The Kindred Spirits of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Anne Frank
    Nancy Churnin, Yevgenia Nayberg
    picture • 32 Pages
    For Spacious Skies: Katharine Lee Bates and the Inspiration for "America the Beautiful"
    Series
    Nancy Churnin, Olga Baumert

Book Stats

7
Authored
0
Illustrated
7
Collaborators

All Nancy Churnin Books

picture • 32 Pages
5.3
Series
Hardcover
$16.99$15.80
picture • 32 Pages
Martin & Anne: The Kindred Spirits of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Anne Frank
Hardcover
$17.99$16.97
picture • 32 Pages
The Queen and the First Christmas Tree
Hardcover
$16.99$15.80
picture • 32 Pages
Irving Berlin: The Immigrant Boy Who Made America Sing
Hardcover
$17.99$16.97
picture • 32 Pages
Charlie Takes His Shot
Hardcover
$16.99$15.80
picture • 32 Pages
Manjhi Moves a Mountain
6.0
Hardcover
$17.99$16.97
picture • 32 Pages
The William Hoy Story: How a Deaf Baseball Player Changed the Game
5.3
Hardcover
$16.99$15.97

Collaborators

Danny Popovici
Jez Tuya
James Rey Sanchez
Luisa Uribe
Yevgenia Nayberg
Olga Baumert
John Joven

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