S. A. Bodeen (or Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen) is an American children's and young adult book author. She is best known for her young adult
science fiction novels
The Compound and The Gardener, and books for children and adults like A Small Brown Dog with a Wet Pink Nose and for her picture books about Elizabeti, a young Tanzanian girl. The first book in the series, Elizabeti's Doll, won the 1999 Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award[1] from the
New York Public Library, and was named a
Charlotte Zolotow Award Highly Commended Title.[2]
Bibliography
As Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen
Elizabeti’s Doll, Lee & Low Books, 1998
We’ll Paint the Octopus Red, Woodbine House, 1998
Mama Elizabeti, Lee & Low Books, 2000
Elizabeti’s School, Lee & Low Books, 2002
Babu’s Song, Lee & Low Books, 2003
The Best Worst Brothers, Woodbine House, 2005
A Small Brown Dog with a Wet Pink Nose, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2009