Peggy Rathmann is an award-winning author of more than eighty books for children, including favorites that have been translated into five languages. She is the author of the popular children's novel The House That Jack Built, which was made into a movie of the same name by director Lars von Trier. The book has sold over three million copies since its publication in 1988, and it remains a perennial favorite on classroom reading lists. Peggy has received numerous awards while writing picture books for young children, including the Children's Book Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, two Young Adult Library Services Association Best Books of the Year, two Newbery Honor Books, four Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards, and the Margaret A
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Edwards Award for Outstanding Contributions to Young Adult Literature.