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"...that joy in reading made me want to be a writer, and from the time
that I was nine years old, I never doubted that I would be one." --
Stephanie S. Tolan
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 Welcome to the Deep End For those who visit this website because of an interest in my work with and for the gifted, consider checking out my blog. --S.S.T.
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Change Your Story, Change Your Life, the book that has been (and still is) available as a free, downloadable PDF on my other website: StoryHealer is now also a real book whose pages you can flip and which you can share with others, available here: CreateSpace and through Amazon. It is also available as a Kindle e-book. |
 
First presented in 1949, the
Christopher Awards salute writers, illustrators, directors, producers
and executive producers who remind audiences and readers, of
all ages and faiths and of no particular faith, of their worth,
individuality and power to positively impact and shape our world.
Read Tolan's
Christopher
Award winning tale for all ages, Listen!. This dog is
wild at heart. How can Charley reach him? And is it worth the risk? Tolan weaves together themes of nature, family, and love
into a complex and powerful portrait of recovery... Read the first
chapter on-line!
| "Well-written and engaging...Touching and heartwarming."
-- Kirkus |
"This gentle tale features Tolan's graceful way with words
and her acute observations of the natural world, dogs in
particular." -- Horn Book |
 Surviving the Applewhites
Tolan's critically acclaimed novel, a 2003 Newbery Honor book, and now a
play. Don't
miss it! Read the first chapters on-line!
“In this laugh-out-loud novel, a young teen on the fast track to the
juvenile detention center suddenly finds himself living in rural North
Carolina with the outrageously eccentric Applewhite clan. Jake Semple, 13,
has been expelled from a long line of schools before coming to the
Applewhites to be home-schooled. This extended family forms what a
visiting reporter christens an “artistic dynasty,” with various creative
endeavors absorbing the adults’ time and attention. Jake is left largely
to his own devices, since the family doesn’t believe in telling their
charges what or when to study. He develops a loyal following consisting of
an active four-year-old and an overweight basset hound, and his
transformation is complete once he becomes enmeshed in the family’s
production of The Sound of Music. Quirky characters, from the cub reporter
to the visiting guru, add to the offbeat humor. The Applewhites’
over-the-top personalities mark them as literary kin of Helen Cresswell’s
Bagthorpes. Running beneath the narrative that gently pokes fun at
everything from sculpture to TV documentaries, though, is also the story
of a boy allowing himself to belong and begin to discover his own
potential. This has terrific booktalk and read-aloud potential, and will
help fill the need for humorous contemporary fiction.” -- Starred review,
School Library Journal
Stephanie S. Tolan is the well known author of young adult and
children's fiction, as well as an author and speaker on her topic of
passion: exceptionally gifted children. Is It a Cheetah?
has become a metaphor for gifted children everywhere. Her
appearances at conferences on parenting and educating the gifted child
are much sought after.
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