Bunting also commented in Writer magazine that her talents benefitted from the fact that 'the educational system in Ireland is geared to the 'essay answer' in examinations, and at that I had always excelled.' In her St. 'It was certainly there that I developed my life-long love of books and reading,' she explained in the Junior Literary Guild. When she was nine years old, she was sent to boarding school, where she often entertained the other girls by telling stories and tall tales in the evenings. You are that child.'īunting was born in Maghera, Northern Ireland, where her father was a well-to-do merchant.

You climb inside the head and the heart of the young person in your story. The young adult novels I write border on the true adult novel, but I enjoy keeping my protagonists in their upper teens, where lives are new and filled with challenge, where nothing is impossible.' Bunting elaborated on her ability to reach diverse audiences in an interview with a contributor for Top of the News: 'There is no special secret to writing for all age levels.

That is why I have such a variety of books-from pre-school, through the middle grades and beyond. 'I like to write for every child,' she once wrote in the St.

Featuring African-American, Chinese-American, Japanese, Jewish, Caucasian, Puerto Rican, Hawaiian, and Irish protagonists in her novels and picture books, Bunting strives to make her books all-inclusive. Proficient in picture books, middle-grade readers, and young-adult novels, she has won a flotilla of awards in a career that has spanned over three decades. The author of over two hundred titles, children's book author Eve Bunting has entertained children in genres ranging from mystery to science fiction to contemporary problem stories.

The Tongue of the Ocean by Eve Bunting