Patricia Polacco
Patricia Polacco
Patricia Barber Polaccois an American author and illustrator...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth11 July 1944
CityLansing, MI
CountryUnited States of America
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I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.
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When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always surrounded by loving individuals. They couldn't give us riches, but they gave us their stories, their hearts, and their time.
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My parents were divorced when I was three, and both my father and mother moved back into the homes of their parents. I spent the school year with my mother, and the summers with my dad.
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My family always encouraged my drawing ability. Kids in school who teased me about my reading would get out of their seats and stand behind my desk as I worked and go, 'Wow, you can really draw.' Later, I earned a degree in Fine Art and got a Ph.D. in Art History.
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I could walk into anyone's home one time and draw a three-dimensional architectural plan of the inside of their home from memory, but I could not add up a column of numbers.
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When you come from a family of storytellers, you're doomed. You just have to tell stories.
Now, I've got to tell you: 'In Our Mothers House,' I don't think is for a kindergartner.
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My stories deal with multicultural situations as well as multigenerational settings.
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My stories are fundamentally about the love of family.
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Maybe one of you can enlighten me, but I just don't understand why it is so hard to be kind to one another?
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I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.
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I lived the first five years of my life on a farm in Union City, Michigan, with my mom and grandparents. It was the most magical time of my life.
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I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in hand. It's our condition as human beings.
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I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad!