The Official Web Site of Peter Johnson
Award-Winning Young Adult and Mid-Grade Novelist & Poet
Had a great time last Thursday at Tiverton Middle School, where 600 kids read HOUDINI. It was the most organized event I’ve participated in, and the kids asked great questions. I want to remind everyone that HOUDINI will be out in paperback this summer, along with my new middle-grade novel, THE LIFE AND TIMES OF Read More …
Keynote Address for RI Center for the Book: The Problems and Joys of Being a Writer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB2IlnKn55U&feature=youtu.be
HOUDINI has been selected as a 2013 Children’s Book Committee/Bank Street College of Education Best Children’s Book of the Year, as well as nominated for the 2013-2014 Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Award! Again, let’s hear it for the narrator and his friends.
The Amazing Adventures of John Smith Jr., aka Houdiniwas chosenby Kirkus Reviewsas one of “The Best Children’s Books of 2012.” Congratulations to John, aka Houdini, and to his buddies Lucky and Jorge.
The Amazing Adventures of John Smith Jr. aka Houdini was chosen by RI Center for the Book as the publication that will be distributed by the Library of Congress in the Pavilion of the States at the National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. on September 22. Last year it was estimated that the crowd at Read More …