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# Sarah Sullivan

author and educator

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- [Home](https://sarahsullivanbooks.com/) - Sarah Sullivan is the author of picture books, novels and poetry. Her picture book, Passing the Music Down, was an N.C.T.E. Notable book, a nominee for the West Virginia Children’s Choice Award and a Bank Street College Best Children’s Book. Her novel, All That’s Missing, received a starred review from the Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books. Her poetry has been anthologized and has appeared in Cricket magazine and other publications. Sarah holds an MFA in Writing for Children & Young Adults from Vermont College where she was awarded a Harcourt Post-Graduate Scholarship. She lives with her husband in Williamsburg, Virginia.
- [All That's Missing](https://sarahsullivanbooks.com/books/bk_all_thats_missing/) - All That’s Missing pub­lish­er, Can­dlewick Press2013 When his grandfather’s demen­tia rais­es the specter of fos­ter care, Arlo flees to find his only oth­er fam­i­ly mem­ber in this gen­uine, heart­en­ing novel. Arlo’s grand­fa­ther trav­els in time. Not literally—he just mix­es up the past with the present. Arlo holds on as best he can, fix­ing him­self corn­flakes for
- [speaking details](https://sarahsullivanbooks.com/speaking/speaking_details/) - Speaking I love vis­it­ing schools and libraries in per­son and vir­tu­al­ly. I also love speak­ing and pre­sent­ing at con­fer­ences, fes­ti­vals, and oth­er pro­fes­sion­al devel­op­ment events. School and Libraries Group Presentations Using a Pow­er­Point slide pro­gram, I offer a look behind the scenes of cre­at­ing a book from ini­tial spark to final pub­lished work. Pro­grams may
- [biography](https://sarahsullivanbooks.com/about/bio/) - Biography Where did you grow up? I grew up main­ly in Col­orado, West Vir­ginia and Delaware. Because of my father’s job, we moved fre­quent­ly. By the time I was in fourth grade I had attend­ed five schools in four states! We lived in Lit­tle­ton, Col­orado from the time I was eight until I was six­teen, so that’s real­ly where I “grew
- [contact](https://sarahsullivanbooks.com/contact/) - Contact Sarah Sullivan Name Email Message Send
- [educators](https://sarahsullivanbooks.com/educators/) - Educators’ Resources A Day for Skating Down­load­able Activ­i­ty Kit for A Day for Skating All That’s Missing Fig­u­ra­tive Language—Metaphor: a Mini-Lesson “Using His­tor­i­cal Research to Cre­ate a Fic­tion­al Char­ac­ter: Where Did Solomon Bro­ken­ber­ry Come From?” by Sarah Sullivan Passing the Music Down Pass­ing the Music Down Book­mark Pass­ing the Music Down Teacher’s Guide Fig­u­ra­tive Lan­guage: a
- [A Day for Skating](https://sarahsullivanbooks.com/books/day_for_skating/) - A Day for Skating illus­tra­tor, Made­line Valen­tinepub­lish­er, Can­dlewick Press2019 In a sweet rhyming tale, a young child’s first skat­ing adven­ture on a frozen pond ends with a cozy bed­time sto­ry.Tap and step, then slide and turn.Whoops! Fall down.That’s how we learn.On a brisk winter’s day, the frozen pond is criss­crossed by fig­ure skaters, hock­ey play­ers, new
- [discounted book orders](https://sarahsullivanbooks.com/speaking/discounted_book_orders/) - Discounted Book Orders Book Sales and Autographing When I vis­it your school, stu­dents, teach­ers, and staff can pur­chase my books direct­ly from my pub­lish­er at a spe­cial 40% school dis­count! Dur­ing my vis­it, I will sign and per­son­al­ize all the books. Here’s how it works: First, get in touch with Dominique Peck at Can­dlewick Press at appearances@candlewick.com
- [schedule](https://sarahsullivanbooks.com/speaking/schedule/) - Appearance Schedule As a writer, teacher, and MFA grad­u­ate, Sarah has a great deal of expe­ri­ence speak­ing to and work­ing with groups of all ages.Learn more about invit­ing Sarah to speak to your class­room, orga­ni­za­tion, con­fer­ence, or festival. Places I’ve Been Mar 19, 2020 Thurs­day, 12:15 to 1:15 PMEVENT CANCELLEDSchool Vis­it, Vir­ginia Fes­ti­val of the BookHol­ly­mead Ele­men­tary
- [speaking main](https://sarahsullivanbooks.com/speaking/)
- [for the press](https://sarahsullivanbooks.com/about/press/) - For the Press Feel free to use my pho­to and biog­ra­phy in fly­ers or brochures for a con­fer­ence or author vis­it, or for a news article. Bio Sarah Sul­li­van is the author of pic­ture books, nov­els and poet­ry. Her pic­ture book, Pass­ing the Music Down, was an N.C.T.E. Notable book, a nom­i­nee for the West Vir­ginia
- [Blog](https://sarahsullivanbooks.com/blog/)
- [meet sarah](https://sarahsullivanbooks.com/about/)
- [Books](https://sarahsullivanbooks.com/books/)
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- [Root  Beer and Banana](https://sarahsullivanbooks.com/books/bk_root_beer_banana/) - Root Beer and Banana illus­tra­tor, Greg Shedpub­lish­er, Can­dlewick Press2005 TO READ THIS BOOKFind this book at your local pub­lic library or your favorite used bookseller. Sarah Sul­li­van’s lyri­cal text and Greg Shed’s warm, nos­tal­gic illus­tra­tions lend a south­ern fla­vor to this gen­tle tale of friend­ship and small kindnesses. Mis­ter Mac’s ceil­ing fan stirs the heatwhile
- [Dear Baby](https://sarahsullivanbooks.com/books/bk_dear_baby/) - Dear Baby Letters from Your Big Brother illus­tra­tor, Paul Meiselpub­lished by Can­dlewick Press2013 TO READ THIS BOOKFind this book at your local pub­lic library or your favorite used bookseller. There’s a baby on the way! Of course, Mike is very excit­ed and curi­ous about his new sib­ling. And he’s very eager to assume his new role
- [Once Upon a Baby Brother](https://sarahsullivanbooks.com/books/bk_once_upon-html/) - Once Upon a Baby Brother illus­trat­ed by Tri­cia Tusapub­lished by Far­rar, Straus & Giroux2013 TO READ THIS BOOKFind this book at your local pub­lic library or your favorite used bookseller. Lizzie loves to make up sto­ries and tell them to any­one and every­one, even though now that her annoy­ing baby broth­er, Mar­vin, has joined the
- [Passing the Music Down](https://sarahsullivanbooks.com/books/bk_passing_music_down/) - Passing Down the Music illus­tra­tor, Bar­ry Rootpub­lish­er, Can­dlewick Press2011 A warm­heart­ed ode to an Amer­i­can musi­cal tra­di­tion and to gen­er­a­tional ties, told in lyri­cal free verse with atmos­pher­ic illustrations. A young boy trav­els to the hills of Appalachia to meet the old-time fid­dle play­er whose music he has admired, and so sparks a friend­ship that will