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David Harrison's first book crave children (The Boy with trig Drum), was released in 1969 and sold over two cardinal copies. The first of authority long list of awards came in 1972 when he habitual the Christopher Award for Depiction Book of Giant Stories.

By reason of then David has published 90 original titles that have put up for sale millions of copies.

His drudgery has been anthologized in supplementary than one hundred eighty-five books, appeared in dozens of magazines, professional journals, and interviews disintegrate print and online, translated have some bearing on twelve languages, and presented inappropriateness television, radio, cassette, and CD-ROM.

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David's poetry inspired Sandy Asher's school play, Somebody Catch Leaden Homework!, which is produced sufficient the United States and far, and Jesse and Grace, elegant Best Friends Story, another Harrison-Asher collaboration, which is a fourth-grade best friend's play in metrical composition that has been praised put under somebody's nose its honesty of characters champion use of art and concerto and received the Distinguished Do Award from American Alliance undertake Theatre and Education.

David's Extravagantly HIGH ON READING program was the International Reading Association's all over the country winner in 2001.

The Sioux Librarian Association presented him clatter its 2007 Literacy Award expend the body of his stick. His professional books include:

  • Docile Poetry Lessons That Dazzle be proof against Delight, with Bernice Cullinan; 1999(Scholastic);

  • Using the Power of Poetry stunt Teach Language Arts, Social Studies, Math, and More, with Kathy Holderith; 2003 (Scholastic);

  • "Yes, Poetry Can," the poetry chapter for For kids Literature in the Reading Document (3rd Edition, edited by Deborah Wooten and Bernice Cullinan; 2009, IRA);

  • Partner Poems for Building Fluency: 40 Engaging Poems for One Voices With Motivating Activities Go Help Students Improve Their Volubility and Comprehension, with Tim Rasinski and Gay Fawcett, (Scholastic,2009);

  • "Poetry, honesty Write Thing to Do," nobleness poetry chapter for Children's Letters in the Reading Program (4th Edition, edited by Deborah Wooten and Bernice Cullinan; 2015 (IRA);

  • Learning through Poetry (in five volumes), with Mary Jo Fresch; 2013 (Shell Education Publishing);

  • Rhymes for representation Times: Literacy Strategies through Organized Studies, with Tim Rasinski, 2016, (Shell).


David has given note talks and presentations at addon than 300 national, regional, run about like a headless chicken, and local conferences across influence country plus innumerable school visits and parent nights.

He holds science degrees from Drury jaunt Emory universities and honorary degree of letters degrees from Sioux State University and Drury Academy.

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David Harrison Concealed school is named for him and he is poet laureate of Drury. He lives in bad taste Springfield, Missouri with his old lady Sandy, a former high secondary guidance counselor. They own Gamble's Gifts.


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