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Happy Birthday Dan Gutman

10/19/2021

"I want reading my books to feel effortless. I'm trying to write stories that are so captivating that kids will look up after an hour and feel like they'd been watching a movie in their head." --Dan Gutman

Today is the 66th birthday of famed children’s author, Dan Gutman.  Known for his funny rhymes and relatable texts, his books range from stories about what can happen in a classroom to tales of baseball greats. Today we will learn a little bit about the author himself.

Dan grew up playing Little League baseball in Newark, New Jersey and went on to obtain a degree in psychology from Rutgers. While in graduate school, he realized that psychology was not really the field he wanted to be in; instead, he wanted to be a writer. He started his writing career cranking out humorous essays for newspapers and magazines with limited success, and eventually started a magazine himself, capitalizing on the Pac Man videogame craze. The magazine, Video Game Player, eventually became Computer Games but eventually went under, which led Gutman to a life of freelance writing. 

Most of his early pieces were about computers, which he admits was odd because he knew very little about computers. Gutman's love of sports, especially baseball, never dimmed, and he began writing about those topics after this son was born, focusing on books for kids. It was then that he realized that was his true passion. As he puts it, I discovered how incredibly rewarding it is to take a blank page and turn it into a WORLD.” (Gutman, 2020-2025)

We are excited to carry so many of his works and glad to share his talents with our schools and libraries. To find his books in our collection, click here.

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