ACADEMIC SPOTLIGHT

Author Ann Morris Visits for
Ezra Jack Keats Day

Ann Morris's many award-winning books include Families, Bread Bread Bread, Hats Hats Hats, Loving, and the Grandma Remembers series.

As a children's book writer, Ann Morris has been able to successfully integrate her varied experiences in teaching young children, travel, writing, and editing. Having grown up in the public schools of New York City, where each child's ethnic heritage was revealed by his name or by the contents of the lunch box from home filled with sausages, egg rolls, matzos, or pizza, she developed a strong interest in cultures other than her own. " I'm a gypsy by nature," she says. "I always have my suitcase packed."

She has taught children in public and private schools in New York City, and adults at Bank Street College, Columbia Teachers College, New York University, and Queens College of the City University of New York.

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