A great voice in Children’s Literature and two-time Newbery Award-winner E.L. Konisburg has died. I found out on Facebook, via a post from Jane Yolen.
I loved her books. For years, The View from Saturday was read, re-read and re-read yet again until it fell apart, then I’d run out and find a new one. She touched my life and my heart with her books and she lives on in them. My granddaughter now reads and re-reads From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler much as I did The View from Saturday. I am positive, because her books are so enduring, that my granddaughter’s grandchildren will one day be lying in a window seat with a well-loved, almost falling apart book by Ms. Konisburg in their hands.
She will be greatly missed.
Her list of work is here on her author page at Simon and Schuster.
Her biography is here at Scholastic.
I am sure there will be a lot of blogs about her shortly and I’ll do my best to get the links all posted here.
In the meantime, read this great review from Elizabeth Lund done back in 2007.
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