Margi Preus Explained

Margi Preus
Occupation:	Writer
Nationality:	American
Alma Mater:	Binghamton University
Genre:	Children's literature

Margi Preus is an American children's writer. She is a 2011 Newbery Honor winner and won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature for Heart of a Samurai.^[1] Her books have won multiple awards, honored as ALA/ALSC Notables, landed on many "best of" lists, featured on NPR, chosen for community reads, and translated into many languages.*

She earned her undergraduate degree at Luther College and graduate degree from Binghamton University.^[2] She taught at the College of St. Scholastica, University of Minnesota Duluth.^[3] She lives in Duluth, Minnesota.^[4]

Works

• Windswept, Illustrator Armando Veve, Harry N. Abrams, 2022,
• Storm's Coming!, Illustrator David Geister, MHS Press, 2016, -0
• The Bamboo Sword, Amulet Books, 2015,
• Enchantment Lake, University of Minnesota Press, 2015,
• West of the Moon, Amulet Books, 2014,
• Shadow on The Mountain, Aumlet Books, 2012,
• Book: The Legend of the Lady Slipper. registration. Margi Preus.. Illustrator Andrea Arroyo . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 1999. 978-0-395-90512-8 .
• Book: A Book of Grace: Words to Bring You Peace. Sourcebooks, Inc.. 2002. 978-1-57071-977-6 .
• The Peace Bell, Illustrator Hideko Takahashi, Henry Holt, 2008,
• Heart of a Samurai, Amulet Books, 2010,
• Book: Celebritrees: Historic and Famous Trees of the World . Illustrator Rebecca Gibbon . Macmillan. 2011. 978-0-8050-7829-9 .

Margi Preus was a runner up for the 2011 Newbery medal and won the Asian/Pacific American award for literature. They were nominated for the Minnesota Book Award for the Middle Grade Literature category for Windswept in 2023.^[5]

External links

• • "Author Interview: Margi Preus, author of Heart of a Samurai", The Fourth Musketeer, July 24, 2010
• "2010 Children's Best: Heart of a Samurai, by Margi Preus", Kirkus, Clayton Moore, November 15, 2010
• News: Heart of a Samurai . The Wall Street Journal. August 7, 2010. Meghan Cox Gurdon .
• Margi Preus at Library of Congress Authorities — with 7 catalog records

Notes and References

1. Web site: Authors Karen Tei Yamashita, Margi Preus, win Asian Pacific awards. .
2. Web site: Visions in Near-sleep. Preus. Margi. 1983.
3. Web site: Margi Preus . 2011-04-05 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110518072202/http://www.childrensliteraturenetwork.org/aifolder/aipages/ai_p/preus.html . 2011-05-18 .
4. Web site: Author.
5. Web site: 36 Finalists Blog: Margi Preus – The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library . 2023-04-26 . en-US.