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Despite the name, Eve Bunting isn't a famous baseball player. Yeah, we were surprised too. She's actually an awesome author, though, so we guess we can let that go.
Transcript
- 00:04
[Coop and Dino singing]
- 00:13
Eve Bunting is a well-known and loved children’s book author. [Even sitting in a chair]
- 00:16
Especially by her pet squirrel, Nutters, but uh…by her legions of adoring fans as well.
- 00:21
Bunting was born in Ireland and grew up listening to others tell stories. [Girl telling story to children on a farm]
- 00:24
It wasn’t long before she realized that…she loved telling stories herself.
Full Transcript
- 00:28
Her mother started a lending library in their little town because there was no library yet. [Eve's mother walks out of book lending store]
- 00:32
Someone was sure angling for the Mother of the Year Award…
- 00:35
Bunting moved to California when she was an adult…
- 00:37
…and started to write stories herself after attending a creative writing class in college. [Eve in creativity 101 class]
- 00:41
The class had gotten her creative juices flowing, and she needed some way to,
- 00:44
um… bottle ‘em. [Person bottles creative juices]
- 00:45
Writing children’s books proved to be the answer.
- 00:47
Bunting loved injecting her stories with humor… …but most importantly, she wanted to write
- 00:51
books that made children think. [Boy appears above a desk]
- 00:53
Her books feature issues like prejudice, racism, death, broken families, and so on.
- 00:57
Reeeeeal uppers.
- 00:59
Bunting has won many awards for her books.
- 01:01
And not just from her parents, either. [Bunting's trophy for being a daughter award]
- 01:03
The little town where she grew up now has a full-blown library…
- 01:06
…and it has a whole section devoted to Eve Bunting’s books. [Section of library with Eve's books]
- 01:09
They still get upset with her when she doesn’t bring one of her books back before the due
- 01:12
date though…
- 01:13
Hey.
- 01:13
Rules are rules. [Eve returning a book at the checkout]
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