Steven's Baseball Mitt: A Book About Being Adopted [Library Binding]

Kathy Stinson (Author)

Product Details

• Library Binding
• Publisher: Annick Pr (March 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1550372335
• ISBN-13: 978-1550372335
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 8.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,937,855 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

The clue that Kathy Stinson has enjoyed a lifelong love of reading is in the wide range of books she has written. "What you read," she says, "influences what you write. And so does the day to day life that you live."

That's why Kathy's characters ride bikes along dirt paths, fall in love in summer, argue and have cozy chats with parents and friends, sometimes have trouble sleeping, and walk on beaches and city streets.

Kathy says, "It's also fun, as a writer, to imagine yourself into situations unlike your own." That's what she did when she wrote about Marie-Claire living through a smallpox epidemic in Montreal in 1885, and Mr. Elliot deciding as a grandfather that it's time he learned to read.

Kathy sorted mail, waited tables, and taught school before finally figuring out what she really wanted to do was write - everything from picture books to young adult novels, from biography to historical fiction. Readers never know what kind of book to expect from her next!

Kathy has served as Writer-in-Residence for several library systems in southern Ontario and has led writing workshops all across Canada.

Kathy is the mother of two grown children, who inspired some of her earliest books. She also has two grown stepdaughters and five grandchildren. If she's out buying them a present, chances are it's in a bookstore she'll be shopping. Of course!

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars Searching . . ., September 18, 2009

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This review is from: Steven's Baseball Mitt: A Book about Being Adopted (Paperback)

This is a book about a little boy searching for identity. As he searches high and low for his baseball glove, (which is never mentioned in the story, incidently) in his mind he wonders about his real mother. He loves his adoptive mother and father and family, but still thoughts of his origin nag at him. The illustrations are engaging, and the text is good to facilitte discussion between children and adults about adoption.