David harrison author biography for book
About the author....
David Lee Harrison (born March 13, ) is an American children's author and poet.
David Harrison's first book for children (The Boy with a Drum), was released in 1969 and sold over two million copies. The first of his long list of awards came in 1972 when he received the Christopher Award for The Book of Giant Stories.
Since then David has published ninety original titles that have sold millions of copies.
His work has been anthologized in more than one hundred eighty-five books, appeared in dozens of magazines, professional journals, and interviews in print and online, translated into twelve languages, and presented on television, radio, cassette, and CD-ROM.
David's poetry inspired Sandy Asher's school play, Somebody Catch My Homework!, which is produced in the United States and abroad, and Jesse and Grace, a Best Friends Story, another Harrison-Asher collaboration, which is a fourth-grade best friend's play in poetry that has been praised for its honesty of characters and use of art and music and received the Distinguished Play Award from Americ
