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BIOGRAPHY Kathleen Odean — Author, Reviewer, Speaker, and Librarian
Kathleen was the chairperson of the 2002 Newbery Award Committee as well as a member of an earlier Newbery Award Committee, Caldecott Award Committee, Notable Children’s Books Committee, and Carnegie Award Committee for videos. Before turning to writing and public speaking, Kathleen worked as a children’s librarian for seventeen years in schools and public libraries in California and Rhode Island. An influential critic, Kathleen has been reviewing books for young people in national publications since the early 1980s. She reviews for Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, and Teacher-Librarian, and reviewed for a decade for School Library Journal. She was a contributing editor to BOOK: The Magazine for the Reading Life for five years. Her books have attracted national attention on television and radio, and in newspapers and magazines. She has been featured on NBC’s Today Show, All Things Considered, CNN, Fox Network, Minneapolis Public Radio, San Francisco’s KQED, and Parents’ Radio. Her books have been featured and reviewed in the New York Times Sunday Book Review, Christian Science Monitor, US News and World Report, USA Today, Ms., Newsday, Boston Globe, Denver Post, Dallas Morning News, Business Week, and the Providence Journal, among others. Kathleen frequently speaks throughout the U.S. to parents, teachers, and librarians about books for young people and how to encourage reading. She is a seminar presenter for TTL Seminars (Tools for Teaching and Learning) on “The Best New Young Adult Books.” She gave YA book seminars for BER for many years. She is also an adjunct faculty member at the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Library and Information Studies and at Mansfield University in Pennsylvania. Kathleen also serves as the Chief Librarian for In2Books, a foundation and company that provides excellent books for young people and their families. A Minnesota native and current Rhode Island resident, Kathleen has a B.A. in English from Carleton College, Northfield, MN, and an MLIS and M.A. in Folklore from the University of California at Berkeley. Her folklore thesis on the lore of the stock market was the subject of her first book, High Steppers, Fallen Angels, and Lollipops: Wall Street Slang (Dodd, Mead, 1988). © 2003, Kathleen Odean, all rights reserved. |
Kathleen
Odean is a nationally recognized expert and popular speaker on books
for young people, best known for her four guides, Great Books
for Girls: More than 600 Recommended Books for Girls Ages 3-14
(first published in 1997 and revised in May 2002), Great Books
for Boys: More than 600 Books for Boys 2 to 14 (Ballantine,
1998), Great Books about Things Kids Love: More than 750 Recommended
Books for Children 3 to 14 (Ballantine, 2002), and Great
Books for Babies and Toddlers: More than 500 Recommended Books for
Your Child’s First Three Years (Ballantine, 2003).