Anna Sheehan facts for kids
Quick facts for kids
Anna Sheehan
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| Born | Wisconsin |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | American |
| Genre | Young adult fiction |
| Notable awards | Golden Duck Award, 2012 |
Anna Sheehan is an American writer who creates exciting novels for young adults. She is most famous for her book A Long, Long Sleep. Her stories often take classic fairy tales and give them a new, modern twist.
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About Anna Sheehan
Anna Sheehan grew up in the state of Wisconsin in the United States. Her mother is a veterinarian, which means she helps animals stay healthy.
When Anna was younger, she loved being part of the Young Shakespeare Players in Madison, Wisconsin. This group helped her act out plays by William Shakespeare. She also enjoyed historical re-enactment, which is like dressing up and living as people did in the past. Anna started writing her own stories when she was a teenager.
Her Books and Stories
Anna Sheehan has written several books that are popular with young readers.
Early Writings
One of Anna's early short stories was called "Stay". It was published in a book called The Pen and the Key: 50th Anniversary Anthology of Pacific Northwest Writers in 2005. This was an important step in her writing career.
A Long, Long Sleep
In 2011, Anna Sheehan's first novel, A Long, Long Sleep, was released by Candlewick Press in the United States. This book was also published in other countries around the world.
The story was partly inspired by the classic fairy tale Sleeping Beauty. It also drew ideas from a writer named Blake Snyder and a famous essay called "The Great Wave" by David Hackett Fischer.
A Long, Long Sleep received many good reviews. It even won the "Hal Clement" Golden Duck Award in 2012. This award is given to excellent science fiction books for young adults. Many libraries, about 210 of them, have copies of this book for people to read.
No Life but This
The next book in the series, No Life but This, came out on December 18, 2014. It continued the story from A Long, Long Sleep. This book was published by Gollancz.
Spinning Thorns
On December 10, 2015, Anna Sheehan published another novel called Spinning Thorns. This book was also released by Gollancz. Like her first novel, Spinning Thorns is also based on the fairy tale Sleeping Beauty. However, it tells the story in a new way and adds more to the original tale.
