Eve Bunting was born and educated in northern
Ireland. Her childhood was filled with myths and folklore; no wonder she grew up to be a
Shanachie.
Eve came to the US with her husband and three children in 1958. They settled in California. Eve enrolled in a writing class at the local college, and has been writing ever since.
Her first book, The Two Giants, was published in 1972. This was her retelling of a traditional Irish fairy tale, "about Finn McCool, the Irish giant, and how he outsmarted Culcullan, the terrible Scottish giant. I thought everybody in the world knew that story, and when I found they didn't - well, I thought they should."
Since then, she has written over 150 other books for kids. She has written contemporary fiction, historic fiction, humor, fantasy, poetry, nonfiction, picture books, and young-adult novels. She says she likes to write books that make young people ask questions. Finding an idea to write about is never a problem - her ideas come to her with a "jolt."
Eve has taught writing at the University of California, Los Angeles, and is on the board of directors of both the Society of Children's Book Writers and The Writer magazine. She lives in LA with her husband, Ed. They have four grandchildren.
Books:
Blackwater
The Blue and the Gray
The Butterfly House
Can You Do This, Old Badger
Cheyenne Again
Coffin on a Case
Dandelions
The Day Before Christmas
The Day the Whale Came
The Days of Summer
A Day's Work
Dear Wish Fairy
December
Doll Baby
Dreaming of America: An Ellis Island Story
Ducky
Face at the Edge of the World
Fifteen
Flower Garden
Fly Away Home
The Follower
Ghost's Hour, Spook's Hour
The Girl in the Painting
Gleam and Glow
Going Home
Happy Birthday, Dear Duck
The Hideout
How Many Days to America?: A Thanksgiving Story
I Am the Mummy Heb-Nefert
I Don't Want to Go to Camp
I Have an Olive Tree
I Like the Way You Are
In the Haunted House
The In-Between Days
Is Anybody There?
Island of One
Jane Martin, Dog Detective
Jin Woo
Jumping the Nail
Lady's Girl
Little Badger, Terror of the Seven Seas
The Man Who Could Call Down Owls
Market Day
Mask
The Memory String
The Mirror Planet
Moonstick: The Seasons of the Sioux
The Mother's Day Mice
My Backpack
Nasty, Stinky Sneakers
Night of the Gargoyles
Night Tree
No Nap
Ph Rick
On Call Back Mountain
Once Upon a Time
Our Sixth-Grade Sugar Babies
Our Teacher's Having a Baby
Peepers
A Perfect Father's Day
A Picnic in October
The Pumpkin Fair
Red Fox Running
Robot People
Roman Numerals I to Mm
Rudi's Pond
Scary, Scary Halloween
Secret Place
Sixth-Grade Sleep-Over
Smoky Night
So Far from the Sea
Some Frog!
Someday a Tree
Someone Is Hiding on Alcatraz Island
SOS Titanic
Spying on Miss Muller
St. Patrick's Day in the Woods
Stable of Fear
Strange Things Happen in the Morning
A Sudden Silence
The Summer of Riley
Summer Wheels
Sunflower House
Sunshine Home
Swan in Love
Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust
Train to Somewhere
Trouble on the T-Ball Team
A Turkey for Thanksgiving
Twinnies
Two Different Girls
Undersea People
The Valentine Bears
The Wall
Wanna Buy an Alien?
The Wednesday Surprise
Who Was Born This Special Day?
Your Move
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http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Exhibit/6356/
http://suite101.com/article.cfm/childrens_writing/6008
http://www.friend.ly.net/scoop/biographies/buntingeve/
www.amazon.com