Talk:Jeanne Birdsall

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As User:p64de I changed the publication date format (1 seven-year-old instance) from yyyy-mm-dd to mdy. Revert that if you care.

We have cited her website "About Jeanne" since 2006 with publication date 2005. She now displays no date. It is evident that the site has been revised and I deleted the publ for "About Jeanne" altho no new content is evident to me in that page.

(We cite two of her webpages. Perhaps, and certainly if the number increases, we should switch to one full citation of her website with short citations of its pages.) --P64 (talk) 01:59, 28 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Influences/influenced[edit]

second of two new sections -P64

{{Infobox writer}} no longer supports the fields influences and influenced. Its template documentation now instructs (twice): "No longer supported. Please move cited/citable instances into prose."

Here are the current parameter values (cut and paste except bullet points):

| influences = E. Nesbit, Edward Eager
| influenced =

See Talk: Ray Bradbury#Influences/influenced for some more explanation with cross-references.

--P64 (talk) 01:59, 28 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

These will be easy to cover in prose. Sources:

ZoomInfo Jeanne Birdsall[1] Cache: “Penderwicks” series author comes to FSU (Framingham State U) 2011-11-23, appeared -11-03 --with {dead} link to the original
School Library Journal 2013-02: Writing for the Middle Grades: A Roundtable with Birdsall, Stead, and Wilson
Bildungsroman 2006-05-08: Interview: Jeanne Birdsall

At a glance: Super material! I guess Nesbit and Eager hold first and second place but Birdsall provides a lot of info about influence and inspiration by others too.

--P64 (talk) 19:13, 29 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Horn Book 2013-05-02 Middle Grade Saved My Life --mentions Nesbit among others, not Eager

--P64 (talk) 19:31, 29 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]