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Part of the creative team behind the American Girl series, Valerie Tripp has written many of the American Girl books about Felicity, Josefina, Samantha, Kit, Molly, and Maryellen. She also wrote American Girl’s Welliewisher and Hopscotch Hill School books.
Valerie Tripp (born 1951) is a children's book author, best known for her work with the American Girl book series. She grew up in Mount Kisco , New York , with three sisters and a brother. She graduated from Yale University and has a Master of Education degree from Harvard University .
Apr 27, 2020 · Valerie Tripp is a children's book author, best known for her work with the American Girl series. She grew up in Mount Kisco, New York with three sisters and one brother. A member of the first co-educated class at Yale University, Tripp also has a M.Ed. from Harvard.
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Valerie Tripp was born in 1951 in Mt. Kisco, New York; she was the middle of five with two older sisters and one younger sister and brother.. Tripp easily learned to read while playing school with her older sisters, and later taught her younger siblings, but was terrible at multiplication. She majored in Philosophy and graduated from Yale Universit...
Plays for American Girl Magazine
1. Annoying Annabelle 2. Samantha's Surprising Birthday 3. Molly's Teammates
Hopscotch Hill School Series
1. Good Sport Gwen 2. Lindy's Happy Ending 3. Hallie's Horrible Handwriting 4. Teasing Trouble 5. Thank You, Logan! 6. Bright, Shiny Skylar 7. The Fair-Share Pair 8. The One and Only Delaney
WellieWishers Series
1. Ashlyn's Unsurprise Party 2. The Muddily-Puddily Show 3. The Riddle of the Robin 4. Camille's Mermaid Tale 5. The Mystery of Mr. E 6. The Rainstorm Brainstorm 7. Willa's Wilderness Campout 8. Emerson and Princess Peep 9. The Clippity-Cloppity Carnival 10. The Princesses and the Dragon 11. Teamwork Magic 12. Ready to be Royal 13. A Fin-tastic Surprise
About the Author. Valerie Tripp says that she became a writer because of the kind of person she is. She says she’s curious, and writing requires you to be interested in everything. Talking is her favorite sport, and writing is a way of talking on paper.
Dec 3, 2015 · How did you start writing American Girl stories? It’s really a story of friendship: A year after I graduated from college, after I’d worked as a saleslady and a copy editor in Boston, I was hired by Pleasant Rowland to write songs, stories, plays, nonfiction essays, and skills book pages for a reading program called “The Superkids.”
May 4, 2017 · Valerie Tripp, known for her beloved American Girl fiction series, will give a presentation at 3 p.m. May 6 at Spring in the Village, Art at the Furnace event.
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