Andrea Beaty

Andrea Beaty is the author of When Giants Come to Play; Iggy Peck, Architect; Doctor Ted; and the mid-grade novel Cicada Summer. As a kid, she
spent her days being a detective, world explorer, movie star, and spy. Now,
as a children's author, she spends her days pretty much the same way! She
lives in the Chicago area.

Andrea is also a very silly chick. Along with children's authors Julia
Durango and Carolyn Crimi, she reviews funny books for kids at the website
www.ThreeSillyChicks.com.


					Doctor Ted illustrated by Pascal Lemaitre Margaret K. McElderry, 2008 ages 4 to 8, ISBN 978-1-4169-2820-1 A teaching guide is available for this book. A Readers' Theater is available for this book. One morning, Ted wakes up and bumps his knee. He needs a doctor! Since doctors are scarce in Ted's room, he becomes one. Doctor Ted diagnoses his mother's freckles as measles and prescribes an operation. He diagnoses the principal's bad breath and prescribes a shot. No one appreciates Ted's medical talents until an accident strikes and Doctor Ted saves the day! Awards Junior Library Guild Selection; Starred PW Review; National Parenting Publications Award - Gold Medal Winner



					Cicada Summer Amulet, 2008 ages 8 to 12, ISBN 978-0-8109-9472-0 A teaching guide is available for this book. Lily has read every Nancy Drew book in the library. She's good at spying and keeping secrets. She has to be. She has secrets of her own that no one can ever find out. When summer brings lying, stealing Tinny Bridges to town, Lily must depend on her wits to keep ahead of this sly newcomer. Tinny takes candy from the general store and blames Lily. She tries to steal Lily's friends and her father's affection. Worst of all, she seems to know Lily's secrets. When Tinny goes missing, only Lily has any idea what happened to her. But for Lily, finding Tinny means confronting her hidden past. In one unusual summer, Lily Mathis will have a chance to solve a mystery, make a friend, and, most important, find forgiveness. Awards Borders Original Voices Selection; National Parenting Publications Award - Gold Medal Winner



					Iggy Peck, Architect illustrated by David Roberts Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2007 ISBN 978-0810911062 A teaching guide is available for this book. A Readers' Theater is available for this book. Iggy has one passion: building. His parents are proud of his fabulous creations, though they're sometimes surprised by his materials. But hey! What's wrong with a tower built of diapers? (Even dirty ones!) Dear Ig has it made until second grade. That's when he meets his match. His teacher, Miss Lila Greer, frowns upon architecture. Banned from building in school, second grade becomes a bore until one day a fateful field trip lets Iggy Peck show the world his true talents! Awards Time Magazine's Top Ten Children's Books of 2007!; Parents' Choice Silver Award; Friends of American Writers Award; Bank Street College Best Books; EB White Read Aloud Nominee



					When Giants Come to Play illustrated by Kevin Hawkes Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2006 ISBN 978-0810957596 A teaching guide is available for this book. "Sometimes on a summer morning, when the sun shines just so and the wind blows like this and like that on its way to somewhere else, giants come to play. They come to play with Anna who waits for them just beyond the end of Lillian Lane." Thus begin the adventures of Anna and the giants who spend a summer day playing catch by the gnarled oak, picking peaches on the hillside, and dangling their toes in the cool shady pond until their shadows grow long and sleepy. Kevin Hawkes' illustrations perfectly capture the whimsy and wonder of these giant adventures.