Talk:Judith Viorst

Untitled
Hello. I came upon the talk page and blanked out a Wiki drawing with what appeared to be inappropriate language about the person in question. --leahtwosaints (talk) 10:03, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

I recently was researching this author and came upon a picture of her on Poets.org. It did not have any sources cited on it, so I was wondering if it would be usable, the link to the picture is here

--69.149.25.82 (talk) 22:09, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Art Buchwald
In the book, "Necessary Losses", Judith Viorst says that Art Buchwald's mother died when he was born. On-line it says that she lived and was later put into a mental institution. Which statement is correct?

Marian Kearney —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.175.34.252 (talk) 16:25, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

Contact
hello...imm here to ask where Judith Viorst lives or where i can contact her to send a letter.Please respond!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.212.15.55 (talk) 03:33, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
 * We are not in that business. Try one of her publishers, which you may find via Google. --P64 (talk) 17:42, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

Interest Level, Reading Level
Scholastic reports this for the Alexander omnibus Absolutely, Positively Alexander That publisher provides almost no biographical information for Viorst or the second illustrator Robin Preiss Glasser; none for the first illustrator Ray Cruz (deceased?).
 * Interest Level
 * Grades K - 2
 * Reading Level
 * Grade level Equivalent: 3.6 [of 1.0 to 12.9]
 * Lexile Measure®: 580L [of 200L-1600L]
 * DRA: 28 [of A,1-80]
 * Guided Reading: L [of A-Z]

--P64 (talk) 17:42, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

Selected works
At the top of the section I inserted data* for all* seven books by Viorst published before 1969, which has been the earliest one listed here. --relying thruout on the Library of Congress Online Catalog.

The last is a children's picture book (32p unpaged, color illus) that certainly belongs in the next subsection. Most of the first six are about 200 page; most illustrated; most for children (maybe all but that is not clear from the linked catalog records). All but one of them are science/nature non-fiction books and I suppose The Village Square is non-fiction too.

The LC online catalog is now down (as of 18:30 and 19:10 UTC). I put all six URL in this page but didn't completely check them for info about the books. I didn't look at catalog data after 1968. Possibly there should be a subsection for science/nature children's educational books, or something similar. Probably the prose biography should explain that her career as a (published) writer began in that field.

--P64 (talk) 19:12, 8 March 2014 (UTC)