1 of 9

Slide Notes

DownloadGo Live

Christopher Paul Curtis

Published on Nov 18, 2015

No Description

PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Christopher Paul Curtis

Fun facts

  • Favorite hobbies : Playing Basketball, writing, and colleting old record labels.
  • Favorite books are anything by Toni Morrison, Kurt Vonnegut, or Zora H
  • He was born in May on 1953
  • He is 61 right now

About his family

  • Christophers parents names are Herman and Leslie
  • He is the second oldest out of 5 siblings
  • Christopher has had 3 wife's Jesse, Kaysandra and Habon
  • He has 4 children named Steven, Cydney, Ayaan and Ebyaan
  • Also he was the first free slave out of his family

Christopher's childhood

  • When he was a kid he would always read but he would get picked on but
  • Then he got a growth spurt and got a new nickname called Sasquatch.
  • He is a great reader but when young he could never find good books
  • about him ( African American )

2 books that he has wrote are....
Elijah of Buxton
And
The Mighty Miss Malone

John Newbery Award
The John Newbery medal is a literacy award give by the Association for library service to children. The bronze medal has the winners name and date engraved in the back.

RaNdOm FaCtS

  • He went to the University of Michigan flint B.A. for college
  • He loves to make children books.
  • He didn't publish his actual first book until he was in his 40 s
  • He used to get semi - hallucinations at night of car doors and
  • Assembly lines moving through his bedroom.

Education
Curtis was born on 1953 growing up In a all black neighborhood. The only white people he ever saw we're his teachers at his school. From Kindergarten through 8 the grade Curtis was a straight A student who thought he wanted to become a doctor like his father. But in high school he kinda just lost interest in academics.