The Official Web Site of Peter Johnson
Award-Winning Young Adult and Mid-Grade Novelist & Poet
HOUDINI has been selected as a 2013 Children’s Book Committee/Bank Street College of Education Best Children’s Book of the Year, as well as nominated for the 2013-2014 Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Award! Again, let’s hear it for the narrator and his friends.
The Amazing Adventures of John Smith Jr., aka Houdiniwas chosenby Kirkus Reviewsas one of “The Best Children’s Books of 2012.” Congratulations to John, aka Houdini, and to his buddies Lucky and Jorge.
The Amazing Adventures of John Smith Jr. aka Houdini was chosen by RI Center for the Book as the publication that will be distributed by the Library of Congress in the Pavilion of the States at the National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. on September 22. Last year it was estimated that the crowd at Read More …
From my many school visits over the last five years, I’ve come to appreciate teachers and librarians. They are the ones who are expected to find the best books for kids, and that chore is often difficult. First of all, year by year, teachers and librarians are burdened with more and more administrative duties, expected Read More …
School Library Journal, Starred Review Providence, RI, is the rundown hometown of John Smith, Jr., 13, nicknamed Houdini by his friends Lucky and Jorge. Hoping to make some money, Houdini undertakes writing an “authentic” kid’s book about life in the neighborhood, featuring his buddies; his hardworking parents; and his admired older brother, Franklin, a Marine Read More …