His book, William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, is a vivid retelling of one of Shakespeare’s most popular plays.
Bruce Coville has written many books for young readers and travels a great deal to schools all across the country to discuss his work. They have three children, Orion, Cara, and Adam. Book recommendations, author interviews, editors' picks, and more. She has illustrated several of his books including The Foolish Giant, Sarah’s Unicorn, and The Monster’s Ring. In the third volume of the Unicorn Chronicles, Cara Diana Hunter journeys to the Valley of the Centaurs in search of a mysterious lost story that could hold the key to the survival of the unicorns. In 1969, Coville married illustrator Kathy Dietz. Coville has long had a special interest in the theater: “Acting, directing, writing-I love every aspect of it, and feel more alive when I am doing a show than at any other time.” He has written four plays, and as an actor, last appeared as William Shakespeare in George Bernard Shaw’s The Dark Lady of the Sonnets. He was also a teacher for seven years he taught second and fourth grades and specialized in gifted education during the last three years. While trying to become a published writer, Coville had many other jobs including toymaker, camp counselor, gravedigger, assembly line worker, and associate editor for a magazine. “I suddenly knew that what I really wanted to write was children’s books-to give other children the joy that I got from books when I was young.” Coville started to write for children when he was 18, and sold his first book when he was 27. I think it was sixth grade when I first realized that writing was something that I could do, and wanted to do very much.” The revelation that he wanted to be a children’s author came to Coville after reading Winnie the Pooh.
Why he happened to read this to me I was never quite certain. If anyone were to ask me what was the best thing he ever did for me, I could reply without hesitation that he read me Tom Swift in the City of Gold. Coville’s love of reading developed early in his childhood. He attended Duke University, the State University of New York at Binghamton, and the State University College at Oswego, and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Elementary Education in 1973. A popular author, teacher, and playwright, he was born in Syracuse, New York on May 16, 1950. |a Hostility (Psychology) |0 |v Juvenile fiction. |a Imaginary places |0 |v Juvenile fiction. |a Cara travels through an underground world to the court of the centaur king as she tries to discover the secret of the enmity between unicorns and delvers, while on Earth, Beloved and her hunters make plans to destroy the unicorns. |a Originally published: New York : Scholastic Press, 2008.
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