Growing Up at 62 : A Celebration
Harriet May Savitz is the published author of over 20 books for and about disabled children. She was nominated for the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award for "Fly, Wheels, Fly" and "Run, Don't Walk" was adapted for television by Henry Winkler productions and has aired on ABC and Showtime. She is a cofounder of the Philadelphia Children's Reading Round Table, a group dedicated to the betterment of children's books, and still writes to young audiences. This is her first book for adults.
Run, Don't Walk...(Nominated for the l983-l984 California Young Reader Medal - an ABC Aftershool Special produced by Henry Winkler )
The Lionhearted (Kirkus Review.."We cheer a major victory...stirs awareness of wheelchair occupants' problems and of the wider implications of the word handicapped." Listed in The University of Iowa's Books for Young Adults l975-l976 pollas one of the most popular books read by older teenagers)
On The Move (Library Journal Review: "The problems of paraplegics and their feelings of frustration and rage are realistically described.
Credits:
essays appearing in seven newspapers, nat'l magazines (Mature Years)
Chicken Soup For The Golden Soul, 20 published books (ABC Afterschool Special produced by Henry Winkler.)
Credits:
Strike Out Or Home Run appearing in
Chicken Soup For The Golden Soul essays published in national magazines and three newspaper columns
Twenty published books (children, young adult, adult)
Credits:
3 newspaper essay columns-Chicken Soup for the Golden
Soul-20 published books-national magazines- readership over 50
Awards...PSLA (Pennsylvania School Library Association) l981 Outstanding Pennsylvania Author Award
In celebration of the International Year of Disabled Persons received recognition for
"Wheelchair Champions."
Something About the Author _ Volume 5 & 9
Who's Who of American Women l979- l980
350 essays available
"essays published in Chicken Soup books."