Peter roop biography

Peter Roop is a Wisconsin State Teacher of the Year, and has been a writer of children's books for over 25 years.
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Peter Roop is an award-winning author and educator who has written over one hundred children's books including biographies, novels, humor, picture books.

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Peter Roop is a Wisconsin State Teacher of the Year, and has been a writer of children's books for over 25 years. He has written extensively for Cricket and Cobblestone Magazines. He currently writes and speaks full-time. Last year he talked with over 50,000 students, presenting over 800 workshops for students, educators and writers in 26 states. Together with his wife, Peter has written 60 children's books ranging from historical fiction to nonfiction. Seven of their books are "Reading Rainbow" books, including Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie, a Feature Book. Their books have received recognition from the National Association of Science Teachers, National Council of Teachers of English, the Children's Book Council, and the American Library Association. They have also received Wisconsin's Laura Ingalls Wilder Book Award. Connie Roop is a high school environmental science teacher, and a recipient of the Women Leaders in Education Award from the American Association of University Women and a Kohl Education Foundation Award for Exceptional Teaching. In 1997 an

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Good-Bye for Today: The Diary of a Young Girl At Sea

Connie Roop (Author), Peter Roop (Author), Thomas B. Allen (Illustrator), Reading level: Ages 9-12 School & Library Binding 48 pages Publisher: Atheneum (May 2000) ISBN-10: 141697573X ISBN-13: 978-1416975731

Laura doesn't want to keep a journal, but her mother says she must. After all, writing about the day-to-day life aboard her father's ship, the Monticello, will preserve her memories of a most interesting and at times terrifying, experience. The Monticello is a whaling ship, and Laura's father has decided to bring Laura, her mother and her little brother, William, along on this voyage, for as soon as they fill the ship's hold with whale oil in the Arctic they shall return to their home in New Bedford–a home that Laura, who was born in the Sandwich Islands, has never seen. But the long trip to the Arctic is a perilous one indeed. There are terrible storms, increasing cold, the thrill (and pity) of the whale hunt, the loss of crew members and, most of all, the threat of ice, which can surround a ship and squeeze it into s

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Peter Roop (1951–) Biography

(Peter G. Roop)

Personal

Born 1951, in Winchester, MA; Education: Lawrence University, B.A., 1973; Simmons College, M.A., 1980; also attended University of Wisconsin—Madison. Politics: Democrat. Religion: Unitarian-Universalist. Hobbies and other interests: Reading, traveling, speaking to educators, librarians, and writers, playing with his children.

Career

Appleton Area School District, Appleton, WI, teacher, 1973–99; writer, beginning 1977. Fulbright exchange teacher at Kingston County Primary School, Kingston, England, 1976–77; University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley, Menasha, instructor, 1983–84; University of Wisconsin, School of the Arts, Rhinelander, instructor, 1986–87. Workshop coordinator, Duquesne University, 1986–99; D.C. Heath Company, consultant, 1986–87; Learning magazine, teacher consultant, 1988–99. Member of board directors, Friends of the Appleton Public Library, 1974–84, and board of trustees, Appleton Public Library, 1983–89.

Member

Society of Children's Book