Hello and welcome!
I'm Jeri Chase Ferris and as you can see from my photo, I'll do just about anything to make history come alive. Some people think that history is old and dry and doesn't have much to do with their own lives – wrong, wrong, wrong! But never fear, I'll show you what history is REALLY like in my books and curriculum-related school presentations. I'm the author of twelve biographies for children and young adults.
Enjoy the video on NOAH, then go to the NOAH WEBSTER! page to see some of the great and starred reviews it's getting from the NY Times Sunday Book Review, Publisher's Weekly, Huffington Post, and more! Big news!! NOAH just received the 2013 Golden Kite Award for best Nonfiction of 2012 as judged by the Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators (SCBWI)!! On a more mundane but still good note, on the Webster page you'll find a 30-page teacher's guide and support for the CCS.
My biographies are about people who made a difference in our world even though all kinds of trouble stood in their way. You want to be treated fairly and so do I, but many of the people I write about were not treated fairly. In fact they were treated badly, very badly. Why? Find out...
When you read my books, you'll see how these people overcame great difficulties to do great things. They made a difference in our world and so can you! Many of my books are about multicultural heroes who, until recently, have been sadly omitted from history. Others are about important people you may never have heard of before.
My current book-in-progress is not a biography - it's historical fiction set in dark, frozen, war-time Russia. It is a survival story.
Leningrad USSR, 1941. Yuri is twelve, studying to be a professional artist. His goal in life is to become "world-famous artist Yuri Ivanovich Petrov," and he has his future mapped out. He has a scholarship to a prestigious art school, gold medals on his wall, and fame is just around the corner. But something else is just around the corner, something that will change Yuri's world forever.
Look for THE LAST MOUSE IN LENINGRAD, coming soon (I hope).
I not only write about Russia, my husband and I have a Russian collection which has been called "unmatched in the western world." I'd love for you to have a look at it. You really need to go to L.A. to see all the 8,000 items, as the website has just gotten started!
As you can see from my picture, I'm not always totally serious. I'm also not actually a cat (sorry), this picture is me as dancer. I was a teacher for thirty years, grades 1-4, which is one of the reasons I love visiting schools and libraries (and also why I'm not totally serious). And now I don't have to do lesson plans and grades. In my presentation, kids see real true history open in front of them. There's a short video below to introduce what I do. (Feel free to nominate me for an Academy Award – or not.) Then, for the whole description, go to my "author visit" page.
So, read on, and I hope to see you soon!
Jeri
Enjoy the video on NOAH, then go to the NOAH WEBSTER! page to see some of the great and starred reviews it's getting from the NY Times Sunday Book Review, Publisher's Weekly, Huffington Post, and more! Big news!! NOAH just received the 2013 Golden Kite Award for best Nonfiction of 2012 as judged by the Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators (SCBWI)!! On a more mundane but still good note, on the Webster page you'll find a 30-page teacher's guide and support for the CCS.
My biographies are about people who made a difference in our world even though all kinds of trouble stood in their way. You want to be treated fairly and so do I, but many of the people I write about were not treated fairly. In fact they were treated badly, very badly. Why? Find out...
When you read my books, you'll see how these people overcame great difficulties to do great things. They made a difference in our world and so can you! Many of my books are about multicultural heroes who, until recently, have been sadly omitted from history. Others are about important people you may never have heard of before.
My current book-in-progress is not a biography - it's historical fiction set in dark, frozen, war-time Russia. It is a survival story.
Leningrad USSR, 1941. Yuri is twelve, studying to be a professional artist. His goal in life is to become "world-famous artist Yuri Ivanovich Petrov," and he has his future mapped out. He has a scholarship to a prestigious art school, gold medals on his wall, and fame is just around the corner. But something else is just around the corner, something that will change Yuri's world forever.
Look for THE LAST MOUSE IN LENINGRAD, coming soon (I hope).
I not only write about Russia, my husband and I have a Russian collection which has been called "unmatched in the western world." I'd love for you to have a look at it. You really need to go to L.A. to see all the 8,000 items, as the website has just gotten started!
As you can see from my picture, I'm not always totally serious. I'm also not actually a cat (sorry), this picture is me as dancer. I was a teacher for thirty years, grades 1-4, which is one of the reasons I love visiting schools and libraries (and also why I'm not totally serious). And now I don't have to do lesson plans and grades. In my presentation, kids see real true history open in front of them. There's a short video below to introduce what I do. (Feel free to nominate me for an Academy Award – or not.) Then, for the whole description, go to my "author visit" page.
So, read on, and I hope to see you soon!
Jeri
All contents © Jeri Chase Ferris 2012. To contact Jeri please email jchaseferris@sbcglobal.net
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