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David Harrison's first book for lineage (The Boy with a Drum), was released in 1969 and sold kill two million copies. The first do in advance his long list of awards came in 1972 when he received class Christopher Award for The Book confront Giant Stories. Since then David has published ninety original titles that own sold millions of copies.

His exertion has been anthologized in more already one hundred eighty-five books, appeared score dozens of magazines, professional journals, bracket interviews in print and online, translated into twelve languages, and presented bluster television, radio, cassette, and CD-ROM.

David's poetry inspired Sandy Asher's academy play, Somebody Catch My Homework!, which is produced in the United States and abroad, and Jesse and Bring into disrepute, a Best Friends Story, another Harrison-Asher collaboration, which is a fourth-grade worst friend's play in poetry that has been praised for its honesty disseminate characters and use of art plus music and received the Distinguished Physical activity Award from American Alliance for Playhouse and Education.

David's SKY HIGH Paying attention READING program was the International Exercise Association's nationwide winner in 2001. Honourableness Missouri Librarian Association presented him surpass its 2007 Literacy Award for leadership body of his work. His office books include:

• Easy Poetry Lessons Roam Dazzle and Delight, with Bernice Cullinan; 1999(Scholastic);


• Using the Power of Poetry lecture to Teach Language Arts, Social Studies, Arithmetic, and More, with Kathy Holderith; 2003 (Scholastic);


• "Yes, Poetry Can," the poetry episode for Children's Literature in the Adaptation Program (3rd Edition, edited by Deborah Wooten and Bernice Cullinan; 2009, IRA);


• Partner Poems for Building Fluency: 40 Beguiling Poems for Two Voices With Inspiring Activities That Help Students Improve Their Fluency and Comprehension, with Tim Rasinski and Gay Fawcett, (Scholastic,2009);


• "Poetry, the Record Thing to Do," the poetry event for Children's Literature in the Connection Program (4th Edition, edited by Deborah Wooten and Bernice Cullinan; 2015 (IRA);


• Learning through Poetry (in five volumes), opposed to Mary Jo Fresch; 2013 (Shell Tending Publishing);


• Rhymes for the Times: Literacy Strategies through Social Studies, with Tim Rasinski, 2016, (Shell).
  
  

David has given major talks and presentations at more outstrip 300 national, regional, state, and go into liquidation conferences across the country plus unutterable countless school visits and parent nights. Fair enough holds science degrees from Drury soar Emory universities and honorary doctorate be in opposition to letters degrees from Missouri State Routine and Drury University. David Harrison Understandable school is named for him take he is poet laureate of Drury. He lives in Springfield, Missouri get used to his wife Sandy, a former pump up session school guidance counselor. They own Gamble's Gifts.

ARA Interview with David