| March 2007 |
The home page was updated, with a new picture,
and a page on Charlotte's book, Say It, was
added.
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| September 2005 |
| A new page was posted on
All That Sunlight. |
| April 2005 |
 A
new page on Charlotte's book Janey
was added, at the request of site-visitor
Su. |
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February-March 2005 |
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We updated in a major way. The site as a whole
got a visual face lift, broken links were corrected, and all the
photographs in
CZ’s Family
Album
were restored.
In addition, the home page now
contains an update on
Charlotte’s health and her
latest project.
And, due to an email from an elementary school librarian, Kimberlee Ent,
who so loved the book
Over and Over
CD
got inspired to do a page on it, as well as added info about how to use
the book in the classroom at
Teachers’
Resources.
Also added after a wonderful email from teacher Rebecca B on
The White Marble. |
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August 2001 |
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A page was posted on Charlotte's
reissued
Sleepy Book. |
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January 2001 |
 The sad news of the death of Ned
Shank, Charlotte's adored son-in-law, was posted here on the opening
page. It has since been removed, but the details are these: Ned lost his
life when a truck struck his bicycle on November 30, 2000. He was 44
years old and had been married to Crescent, CZ's daughter, for 23 years.
You can see see some pictures of Ned at
Charlotte's Later Years: The Family Album,
and you can learn about him at a section dedicated to him at
Crescent Dragonwagon's
web site. You may also meet this sweet, gifted,
intelligent funny man through his first, and, sadly, last children's
book,
The
Sanyasin's First Day. And, so deeply was Ned grieved by Charlotte, Crescent, and his
many friends that in 2005 Crescent finally put up a new site, about the
grief process as she has come to understand it (in part with Charlotte)
over time. Please come visit Club Ned. |
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September 2000 |
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A beautiful picture of Charlotte
at her daughter,
Crescent Dragonwagon's,
wedding was added to
Charlotte's Later Years: The Family Album. |
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A new page on the latest reissue
of her book
Do You Know What I'll Do?
was added to this site (see one of the new
illustrations from the 2000 edition, by Javaka Steptoe, below).
Also, the
page on Charlotte's very first book,
The Park Book (1944), was completed. |
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On September 16, new material
was added to the page on
The Park Book,
Charlotte's first published book. In addition, a new page on her 1970
collection of poems,
River Winding, was added. |
| On
September 15, new material was added to several pages on Charlotte's
much-loved
Mr. Rabbit & the Lovely Present.
In addition, a new page on her 1987 collection of poems,
Everything Glistens,
was added. |
| On
September 12, several new pictures were added, including a recent
picture of Charlotte with her son and daughter, at the bottom of
Charlotte's Home Page,
and one of Charlotte and her good friend, the author
Jean Craighead George. |
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A new link to the page on
Delmore Schwartz,
the mysterious, charismatic American poet edited posthumously by
Charlotte, has been added. |
| August
2000 |
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A new photo of Charlotte's
beloved writing teacher, Helen C. White, was added to page 2 of
Charlotte's Biography.
This rare picture is courtesy of the Cooperative Children's Books
Center, and was taken in 1964. |
| July 2000 |
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A new photo of
Francesca Lia Block
with baby Jasmine and papa Chris Schuette was added to the linked
author-list on
Books CZ Has Edited.
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Francesca Lia Block
was added to the linked author-list on
Books CZ Has Edited.
And, on
Friends & Colleagues,
you can now click to
Kathleen T. Horning.
Kathleen is the coordinator of the annual
Charlotte Zolotow Award & Lecture,
held in Madison, Wisconsin, at the University. |
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William's Doll
and
The Seashore Book
were added to the linked list of
Books CZ Has Written.
Some fun new literary
Links
were also added. |
| A
new page was put up about Charlotte's 1984 book,
I Know a Lady,
illustrated by James Stevenson. |
| A photograph of
Mary Rodgers
was added to the linked list of authors on
Books CZ Has Edited. |
| June 2000 |
|
Alan Arkin
was added to the linked list of authors on
Books CZ Has Edited,
and so was
Ursula Nordstrom. |
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Charlotte finally saw her birthday web site! The day before her 85th
birthday, an unseasonably hot Sunday, she sat in her own living room and
looked at it. Thank you, CZ's friends and authors, for not giving away
the surprise. P.S. She loved it!
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This Quiet Lady,
The Sky Was Blue
and
The Moon Was Best
were added to the linked list of
Books CZ Has Written.
And
Susan Hirschman
was added to the linked list of
Friends & Colleagues.
Also, a new idea for in-and-out-of-classroom-exploration was added to
Teachers' Resources.
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Patricia MacLachlan
was
added to the linked list of authors on
Books CZ Has Edited.
Cover illustrations from many of
Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present's
international additions were added to the page about this
soothing, sweetly surreal story. |
| The
Links
page was updated (a continuing process). |
Friend and fellow HarperCollins
laborer-in-the-vineyard of children's books
Bill Morris
was added to the linked list on
Friends & Colleagues.
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Author
Paul Zindel
was added to the linked list of authors on
Books CZ Has Edited. |
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Authors
Karla Kuskin and
Mary Rodgers
were added to the linked list of authors on
Books CZ Has Edited. |
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Author
Paul Fleischman was added to the linked list of authors on
Books CZ Has Edited. On
that same list, a picture of Robert Lipsyte
was added to his page. |
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Authors
M. E.Kerr and
Robert Lipsyte
were added to the linked list
of authors on
Books CZ Has Edited. |
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Author
Jean Craighead George
was added to the page on
Charlotte's friends & colleagues.
Come see pictures, comments, and links about this much-loved
novelist/naturalist/ FOC (that would be "Friend Of Charlotte). |
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More new pictures were added to all pages of
CZ's Family Album, plus a page was added on
The Park Book. |
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A photograph
of author
Myron Levoy
was added to Myron's page on the linked list of authors on
Books CZ Has Edited. |
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Author
Barbara Dana
was added to the linked list of
authors on
Books CZ Has Edited. |
| A new
page was put up about Charlotte's book
The Summer Night,
in the section
Books CZ Has Written. |
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A new page
was put up about Charlotte's book
But Not Billy,
her second book, published in 1949, then reissued thirty-six years
later. |
| All
pages of
CZ's Family Album were updated. Scroll from
page to page, or go to whichever page captures your fancy: |
|
Charlotte's Birth Family & Early Years |
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Charlotte & Her Sister, Dorothy Arnof |
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Charlotte, Young Wife & Mother |
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Charlotte's Later Years |
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Delmore Schwartz
was added to the linked list of authors on
Books CZ Has Edited. |
|
Lee Bennett Hopkins
was added to the linked list of authors on
Books CZ Has Edited.
A portrait of Lee, with his Cavalier King Charles spaniel, Royal Dude,
was added two days later. |
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