Joyce Sidman

Joyce Sidman (born June 4, 1956) is an American children's writer.

==Life Sidman was born in Hartford, Connecticut.

She graduated from Wesleyan University, with a B.A. in German. She is married and lives in Wayzata, Minnesota with her husband and their two sons.

Recognition
Sidman won a 2011 Newbery Honor Award.

Poetry

 * Like the Air. Georgetown, KY: Finishing Line Press, 1999. ISBN 978-0-9664324-2-8

Children’s Books

 * Just Us Two: Poems about animal dads (illustrated by Susan Swan). Brookfield, CT: Millbrook Press, 2000.
 * [http://books.google.com/books?id=qwapNFTFey8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=joyce+sidman&hl=en&ei=716bTY29Nqiy0QHhqdXlAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CFEQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q&f=false Eureka!: Poems about inventors. (illustrated by K. Bennett Chavez). Brookfield, CT: Millbrook Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0-7613-1665-7
 * [http://books.google.com/books?id=5feSzQHjcJ8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=joyce+sidman&hl=en&ei=716bTY29Nqiy0QHhqdXlAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CD0Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q&f=false The World According to Dog: Poems and teen voices (illustrated by Doug Mindel). Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003. ISBN 978-0-618-17497-3
 * [http://books.google.com/books?id=ydTBE9Qgxg8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=joyce+sidman&hl=en&ei=716bTY29Nqiy0QHhqdXlAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false Song of the Water Boatman: Pond poems (illustrated by Beckie Prange). Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004. ISBN 978-0-618-13547-9
 * [http://books.google.com/books?id=q-SmJ2nij4sC&printsec=frontcover&dq=joyce+sidman&hl=en&ei=716bTY29Nqiy0QHhqdXlAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDgQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false Meow Ruff: A Story in Concrete Poetry (illustrated by Michelle Berg). Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006. ISBN 978-0-618-44894-4
 * [http://books.google.com/books?id=_wTQC11bPIcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=joyce+sidman&hl=en&ei=716bTY29Nqiy0QHhqdXlAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CEwQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q&f=false Butterfly Eyes and other secrets of the meadow (illustrated by Beth Krommes). Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006. ISBN 978-0-618-56313-5
 * This Is Just to Say: Poems of Apology and Forgiveness (illustrated by Pamela Zagarensky). Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007. ISBN 978-0-618-61680-0
 * [http://books.google.com/books?id=qiXZ5KCo3fkC&printsec=frontcover&dq=joyce+sidman&hl=en&ei=716bTY29Nqiy0QHhqdXlAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false Red Sings From Treetops: A year in colors. (illustrated by Pamela Zagarensky). Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2009. ISBN 978-0-547-01494-4
 * [http://books.google.com/books?id=0uFWCv0DCBIC&pg=PP1&dq=joyce+sidman&hl=en&ei=716bTY29Nqiy0QHhqdXlAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CEMQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q&f=false Dark Emperor and other poems of the night'' (illustrated by Rick Allen). Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010. ISBN 978-0-547-15228-8
 * Ubiquitous: Celebrating Nature's Survivors (illustrator Beckie Prange). Boston: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 2010. ISBN 978-0-618-71719-4
 * Swirl by Swirl: Spirals in Nature (illustrated by Beth Krommes). Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011. ISBN 978-0-547-31583-6