As a professional storyteller for 28 years, Kendall Haven has performed for a total audience of almost 5 million. The only West Point graduate and senior American scientist to turn master storyteller, Haven has written 28 books including 14 collections of original themed nonfiction stories and is nationally recognized as an expert in story structure and in teaching narrative writing. He is the only 9-time winner of the Storytelling World Silver Award, is an ALA notable recording artist, and is thrice-listed in ALA’s BEST OF THE BEST FOR CHILDREN. His radio drama, THE ADVENTURES OF CHRISTINA VALENTINE, won the CPB Silver and the NY Radio Awards. Included in his numerous award-winning books are THAT’S WEIRD! AWESOME SCIENCE MYSTERIES (an exploration through stories and science of major science mysteries), VOICES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION and VOICES OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR (historically true stories of life during those two dramatic periods), and the 100 GREATEST SCIENCE DISCOVERIES and the 100 GREATEST SCIENCE INVENTIONS (descriptions of how the inventions and discoveries that have shaped our world were, themselves, created). His newest work, 100,000 ANIMAL MUMMIES, will be released next year. Haven’s books have been listed in five previous California Collections.
The Leo Politi Golden Author Award is presented to the California author who has had the most books in the California Collections over time. The 2010 Award goes to Susan Goldman Rubin with 14 titles in 40 Collections during the past 13 years.
ANDY WARHOL
THE CAT WITH THE YELLOW STAR
DEGAS AND THE DANCE
DELICIOUS
EDWARD HOPPER
FIREFLIES IN THE DARK
THE FLAG WITH FIFTY-SIX STARS
HAYM SALOMON AMERICAN PATRIOT
L'CHAIM
MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE
SEARCHING FOR ANNE FRANK
STEVEN SPIELBERG
WHAAM!
THE YELLOW HOUSE
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structure and in teaching narrative writing. He is the only 9-time winner of the Storytelling World Silver Award, is an ALA notable recording artist, and is thrice-listed in ALA’s BEST OF THE BEST FOR CHILDREN. His radio drama, THE ADVENTURES OF CHRISTINA VALENTINE, won the CPB Silver and the NY Radio Awards. Included in his numerous award-winning books are THAT’S WEIRD! AWESOME SCIENCE MYSTERIES (an exploration through stories and science of major science mysteries), VOICES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION and VOICES OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR (historically true stories of life during those two dramatic periods), and the 100 GREATEST SCIENCE DISCOVERIES and the 100 GREATEST SCIENCE INVENTIONS (descriptions of how the inventions and discoveries that have shaped our world were, themselves, created). His newest work, 100,000 ANIMAL MUMMIES, will be released next year. Haven’s books have been listed in five previous California Collections.
the most books in the California Collections over time. The 2010 Award goes to Susan Goldman Rubin with 14 titles in 40 Collections during the past 13 years.
