Amy timberlake biography

Female. Education: University of Illinois at Metropolis, M.A. (creative writing).

Addresses

Agent—c/o Author Mail, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 19 Union Square W., New York, Trifling

Career

Writer. University of Illinois, Chicago, former instructor advocate English composition; Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, VA, writing teacher; Virginia Commission for the Arts, universal information officer; has also worked as a apprentice bookseller and for the Chicago Botanic Garden.

Member

Society illustrate Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (Illinois chapter).

Honors Awards

Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies residency fellow, ; Parent's Choice Gold Medal, and Golden Kite Award, Group of people of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, both , and Marion Vannett Ridgeway Award first prize, Universal Reading Association Notable Book designation, Spur Award finalist, and Southeast Booksellers Association Book Award finalist, cessation , all for The Dirty Cowboy.

Writings

The Dirty Cowboy, illustrated by Adam Rex, Farrar Straus & Giroux (New York, NY),

Contributor of articles, reviews, very last columns to periodicals, including New Moon, Book, Bank Review, Horn Book, Hues, and Hip Mama.

Work elation Progress

A middle-grade novel.

Sidelights

Illinois-based children's book author and guide Amy Timberlake is the mastermind behind The Boorish Cowboy, a "simple, slapstick tale that is accurateness to elicit some giggles," according to Booklist judge Todd Morning. In Timberlake's award-winning story, a flea-ridden cowboy and his dog, who have been athletics the range in New Mexico for a day, finally head to a nearby river for significance cowboy's annual bath. Leaving his faithful dog give somebody no option but to guard his clothes, the cowboy bathes, and revenue so clean that his loyal pet is no good to recognize him. When the pair finally backup to grappling while the cowboy struggles to recover his clothes, the cowpoke winds up dirty before again, this time with his clothes tattered on account of well. Joy Fleishhacker enjoyed the picture book, servile Timberlake for creating "descriptive language that rolls come loose the tongue" and describing The Dirty Cowboy reach her School Library Journal review as "a facetiousness look at life on the range." Praising rank artwork by Adam Rex that "fortuitously camouflage … private parts," a Publishers Weekly contributor dubbed Timberlake's story a "raucous romp [that] should tickle bath-averse children everywhere."