Jon Scieszka

Jon Scieszka is an American author of children's literature born September 8th, 1954 in Flint, Michigan. He is the second oldest of five sons to father Louis Scieszka, an elementary school principal, and mother Shirly, a Registered Nurse.

Jon first attended Culver Military College in Indiana, graduating after three years, and then started studying medicine at Albion College. He received a B.A. in writing in 1976, and turned down an acceptance to Johns Hopkins Medical School, opting instead to attend Columbia University's writing program where he received his Master of Fine Arts in 1980. After graduating, Jon worked in a variety of capacities: teaching elementary school, writing for magazines, painting apartments, and working as a carpenter and lifeguard.

Today Jon lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn with his wife Jerilyn, son Jake, and daughter Casey.

Works

• The Frog Prince, Continued – 1991
• The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales – 1992, 10th Anniversary Edition – 2002
• The Not-So-Jolly Roger (Time Warp Trio) – 1993
• Math Curse – 1995
• The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs – 1996
• The Book That Jack Wrote – 1997
• Squids Will Be Squids: Fresh Morals, Beastly Fables – 1998
• Summer Reading Is Killing Me! (Time Warp Trio) – 2000
• It's All Greek to Me (Time Warp Trio) – 2001
• Baloney (Henry P.) – 2001
• Sam Samurai (Time Warp Trio) – 2002
• See You Later, Gladiator (Time Warp Trio) – 2002
• Me Oh Maya! (Time Warp Trio)  – 2003
• Your Mother Was a Neanderthal (Time Warp Trio) – 2003
• Good, the Bad, and the Goofy(Time Warp Trio) – 2003
• Science Verse – 2004
• Da Wild, Da Crazy, Da Vinci (Time Warp Trio) – 2004
• Tut, Tut (Time Warp Trio) – 2004
• Knights of the Kitchen Table (Time Warp Trio) – 2004
• Hey Kid, Want to Buy a Bridge? (Time Warp Trio) – 2004
• Viking It and Liking It (Time Warp Trio) – 2004
• 2095 (Time Warp Trio) – 2004

External Links

• Buy Jon Scieszka's Books at Amazon.com
• Guys Read, Jon's literacy program for guys of all ages.