Background
Perry Nodelman was born on August 18, 1942, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is a son of Lonny Nodelman, affiliated with the Canadian army, and Dorothy Nodelman (maiden name Berkan), a secretary.
515 Portage Ave, Winnipeg, MB R3B 2E9, Canada
The University of Winnipeg where Perry Nodelman received a Bachelor of Arts in 1965.
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, United States
Yale University where Perry Nodelman obtained a Master of Arts degree and a Ph. D. in English literature.
Carol Matas, one of Perry Nodelman's colleagues in writing.
(A pioneering study of a unique narrative form, the book e...)
A pioneering study of a unique narrative form, the book examines the special qualities of picture books intended to educate or tell stories to young children.
https://www.amazon.com/Words-about-Pictures-Narrative-Childrens/dp/0820312711/?tag=2022091-20
1988
(The author overviews the issue of children's literature b...)
The author overviews the issue of children's literature by discussing literary techniques and characteristics of the genre, examining the changing historical context of childhood, and evaluating specific types of literature.
https://www.amazon.com/Pleasures-Childrens-Literature-2nd/dp/080131576X/?tag=2022091-20
1992
(When his baby sister is stolen by Fairies and replaced wi...)
When his baby sister is stolen by Fairies and replaced with a changeling, John Nesbit travels into the world of the Strangers in order to rescue her and confronts such unusual creatures as human-headed flying dogs and a hollow man.
https://www.amazon.com/Same-Place-But-Different/dp/0671898396/?tag=2022091-20
1993
(When Johnny Nesbit wakes up in a pink bedroom that is ins...)
When Johnny Nesbit wakes up in a pink bedroom that is inside a glass bottle, he soon realizes that he is battling the Strangers, the fairies that had stolen his baby sister Cheryl a year earlier.
https://www.amazon.com/Completely-Different-Place-Perry-Nodelman/dp/0689808364/?tag=2022091-20
1996
(In a wonderful story, Sally gives voice to the everyday h...)
In a wonderful story, Sally gives voice to the everyday hardships people dealt with during the 1930's depression, and she tells of the anti-Semitism Jews faced in Canada.
https://www.amazon.com/Not-Nickel-Spare-Sally-Cohen/dp/0439961300/?tag=2022091-20
2007
Perry Nodelman was born on August 18, 1942, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is a son of Lonny Nodelman, affiliated with the Canadian army, and Dorothy Nodelman (maiden name Berkan), a secretary.
Perry Nodelman received a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors from the University of Winnipeg in 1964. It was followed the next year by a master’s degree in English literature from Yale University. In 1969, Nodelman completed his Doctor of Philosophy degree in the discipline.
Perry Nodelman started his career at the University of Winnipeg where he became an assistant professor in 1968. He has taught English at the University for almost thirty years.
The idea for his first book came to Nodelman while he was reading Katharine Briggs’s ‘Dictionary of Fairies, Brownies, Bogies, and Other Supernatural Creatures’. It inspired the author for 1993 ‘The Same Place but Different’, a tale about a crossover between contemporary society and the world of fairy. The main character of the book was named Johnny Nesbit. The unusual combination of traditional plot and Nesbit’s style attracted reviewers’ attention. A sequel to the first Johnny Nesbit book, ‘A Completely Different Place’, published three years later, was an excess of legend and lore.
In between bouts with Johnny Nesbit, Perry Nodelman’s own expertise as literary critic continued to be in demand. It was then when he began consulting Carol Matas on her children’s books. During the early 1990s, the Matas-Nodelman consultation tradition took a collaborative turn. In response to his critiques of her first and second drafts of fantasy for young adults, Matas ended up challenging Nodelman to flesh out the character of the male protagonist. Nodelman seized the opportunity and, in doing so, added a co-writing component to his career.
‘Of Two Minds’ and its sequel ‘More Minds’, co-written by Matas and Nodelman, were the results of the story about Princess Lenora and Prince which Matas originally presented to Nodelman. The third book about further adventures of Princess Lenora and Prince Coren, ‘Out of Their Minds’, saw the publication in 1998. As well, Nodelman has a third Johnny Nesbit book that pit Johnny against horrors worthy of Dante’s Inferno.
Perry Nodelman pursued his writing activity into the 2000s. In 2007, he published a historical fiction book ‘Not a Nickel to Spare: The Great Depression Diary of Sally Cohen’. The volume was followed the next year by an academic book about non-specific characteristics of children's literature titled ‘The Hidden Adult’. Nodelman came back to his collaboration with Carol Matas which resulted in the Ghosthunters trilogy the third volume of which, ‘The Hunt for the Haunted Elephant’, saw the print in 2010.
Nowadays, Nodelman is Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at the University of Winnipeg.
(When his baby sister is stolen by Fairies and replaced wi...)
1993(The author overviews the issue of children's literature b...)
1992(When Johnny Nesbit wakes up in a pink bedroom that is ins...)
1996(In a wonderful story, Sally gives voice to the everyday h...)
2007(A pioneering study of a unique narrative form, the book e...)
1988(The second volume of Ghosthunters series written by Carol...)
2009(The third volume of Ghosthunters series written by Carol ...)
2010(The first volume from Mind series written by Carol Matas ...)
1995(The first volume of Ghosthunters written by Carol Matas a...)
2008(The third volume on the adventures of Princess Lenora and...)
1998(The book tells the story of an average Grade 11 kid, Brad...)
1998Quotations: "My own writing tends to be about the world falling apart. Although it’s fast-paced and light in tone, it's about situations spilling over into horror. What interests me is what happens when something that shouldn’t be there breaks through into your ordinary world and a perfectly ordinary place becomes a different place. I like the idea that you don’t have to go away to have an adventure."
Perry Nodelman has been a member of the Children’s Literature Association.
Perry Nodelman likes listening to classical music and classic Broadway music.
Perry Nodelman married a writer Billie de Woolf on February 19, 1971. The family produced three children named Joshua, Asa, and Alice.