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Steven Kellogg is an American author and illustrator that writes stories for children. He has produced more than a hundred books over the decades that his career has spanned. Born to Robert and Hilma Marie in 1941 in Connecticut, Kellogg was drawn to art and storytelling from a very young age.

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Order of A Tall Tale Series

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1 Paul Bunyan, a Tall Tale (Short Story) 1984 Description / Buy
2 Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind Crockett (Short Story) 1985 Description / Buy
3 Pecos Bill (Short Story) 1986 Description / Buy
4 Johnny Appleseed (Short Story) 1988 Description / Buy
5 Mike Fink (Short Story) 1992 Description / Buy
6 I Was Born about 10,000 Years Ago (Short Story) 1997 Description / Buy

Order of Pinkerton Series

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1 Pinkerton, Behave! (Short Story) 1979 Description / Buy
2 A Rose for Pinkerton (Short Story) 1981 Description / Buy
3 Tallyho, Pinkerton! (Short Story) 1982 Description / Buy
4 Prehistoric Pinkerton (Short Story) 1987 Description / Buy
5 A Penguin Pup for Pinkerton (Short Story) 2001 Description / Buy

Order of Steven Kellogg Children's Books with James Thurber, Deborah Guarino, Fred Rogers, David M. Schwartz, B.J. Ward

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1 The Great Quillow (Short Story) ( With: James Thurber) 1944 Description / Buy
2 The Baby Beebee Bird (Short Story) ( With: Diane Redfield Massie) 1963 Description / Buy
3 Martha Matilda O'Toole 1969 Description / Buy
4 The Wicked Kings of Bloon 1970 Description / Buy
5 Mrs. Purdy's Children 1970 Description / Buy
6 Crabapple Night ( With: Jan Wahl) 1971 Description / Buy
7 Can I Keep Him? (Short Story) 1971 Description / Buy
8 Won't Somebody Play with Me? (Short Story) 1972 Description / Buy
9 The castles Of The Two Brothers ( With: Aileen Friedman) 1972 Description / Buy
10 The Island of the Skog (Short Story) 1973 Description / Buy
11 Abby (Short Story) ( With: Jeannette Franklin Caines) 1973 Description / Buy
12 Mister Rogers' Songbook ( With: Fred Rogers) 1973 Description / Buy
13 Kisses and Fishes (Short Story) ( With: Liesel Moak Skorpen) 1974 Description / Buy
14 The Missing Mitten Mystery (Short Story) 1974 Description / Buy
15 There Was an Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly (Short Story) 1974 Description / Buy
16 The Mystery of The Missing Red Mitten (Short Story) 1974 Description / Buy
17 There Was an Old Woman 1974 Description / Buy
18 Best Friends (Short Story) 1975 Description / Buy
19 The Boy Who Was Followed Home (Short Story) ( With: Margaret Mahy) 1975 Description / Buy
20 The Great Christmas Kidnapping Caper (Short Story) ( With: Jean Van Leeuwen) 1975 Description / Buy
21 The Smartest Bear and His Brother Oliver (Short Story) 1975 Description / Buy
22 How the Witch Got Alf (Short Story) ( With: Cora Annett) 1975 Description / Buy
23 You Ought to See Herbert's House 1975 Description / Buy
24 Much Bigger Than Martin (Short Story) 1976 Description / Buy
25 The Most Delicious Camping Trip Ever ( With: Alice Bach) 1976 Description / Buy
26 Awful Alexander ( With: Judith Choate) 1976 Description / Buy
27 The Mysterious Tadpole (Short Story) 1977 Description / Buy
28 Mysterious Ostergeest (Short Story) 1977 Description / Buy
29 Barney Bipple's Magic Dandelions (Short Story) ( With: Carol Chapman) 1977 Description / Buy
30 Grouchy Uncle Otto (Short Story) ( With: Alice Bach) 1977 Description / Buy
31 The Mystery Beast of Ostergeest (Short Story) 1977 Description / Buy
32 Emu and the Three Little Pigs (Short Story) 1977 Description / Buy
33 Mystery of the Magic Green (Short Story) 1978 Description / Buy
34 Millicent the Magnificent (Short Story) ( With: Alice Bach) 1978 Description / Buy
35 The Pickle Plan (Short Story) ( With: Marilyn Singer) 1978 Description / Buy
36 Molly Moves Out ( With: Susan Pearson) 1979 Description / Buy
37 Once Said Darlene (Short Story) ( With: William Sleator) 1979 Description / Buy
38 Jill the Pill (Short Story) ( With: Julia Castiglia) 1979 Description / Buy
39 There's an Elephant in the Garage (Short Story) 1979 Description / Buy
40 The Mystery of the Flying Orange Pumpkin (Short Story) 1980 Description / Buy
41 Leo, Zack, and Emmie ( With: Amy Ehrlich) 1981 Description / Buy
42 Uproar on Hollercat Hill (Short Story) 1981 Description / Buy
43 The Mystery of the Stolen Blue Paint (Short Story) 1982 Description / Buy
44 A Change of Plans ( With: Alan Benjamin) 1982 Description / Buy
45 The Ten-Alarm Camp-Out (Short Story) ( With: Cathy Warren) 1983 Description / Buy
46 The Orchard Cat (Short Story) 1983 Description / Buy
47 Ralph's Secret Weapon (Short Story) 1983 Description / Buy
48 A, My Name Is Alice ( With: Jane Bayer) 1984 Description / Buy
49 Chicken Little (Short Story) 1985 Description / Buy
50 How Much Is a Million? (Short Story) ( With: David M. Schwartz) 1985 Description / Buy
51 Iva Dunnit and the Big Wind ( With: Carol Purdy) 1985 Description / Buy
52 Leo, Zack, and Emmie Together Again ( With: Amy Ehrlich) 1987 Description / Buy
53 Paul Bunyan 1987 Description / Buy
54 Aster Aardvark's Alphabet Adventures (Short Story) 1987 Description / Buy
55 Tom Zack and Emmie in Winter ( With: Amy Ehrlich) 1987 Description / Buy
56 Is Your Mama a Llama? (Short Story) ( With: Deborah Guarino) 1989 Description / Buy
57 Yankee Doodle (Short Story) 1989 Description / Buy
58 Engelbert the Elephant (Short Story) ( With: Tom Paxton) 1990 Description / Buy
59 The Day the Goose Got Loose (Short Story) ( With: Reeve Lindbergh) 1990 Description / Buy
60 Jack and the Beanstalk (Short Story) 1991 Description / Buy
61 The Christmas Witch (Short Story) 1992 Description / Buy
62 The Wizard Next Door (Short Story) ( With: Peter Glassman) 1993 Description / Buy
63 Island of the Skog 1993 Description / Buy
64 Parents in the Pigpen, Pigs in the Tub ( With: Amy Ehrlich) 1993 Description / Buy
65 The Rattlebang Picnic (Short Story) ( With: Margaret Mahy) 1994 Description / Buy
66 Short Vowels: Beginning Reading: Book 2 ( With: Jo Ellen Moore) 1995 Description / Buy
67 Snuffles and Snouts: Poems (Short Story) ( With: Laura Robb) 1995 Description / Buy
68 Frogs Jump: A Counting Book (Short Story) ( With: Alan Brooks) 1996 Description / Buy
69 The Three Little Pigs (Short Story) 1997 Description / Buy
70 A-Hunting We Will Go! (Short Story) 1998 Description / Buy
71 The Three Sillies (Short Story) 1999 Description / Buy
72 Give the Dog a Bone (Short Story) 2000 Description / Buy
73 Big Bear Ball (Short Story) 2002 Description / Buy
74 Clorinda (Short Story) ( With: Robert Kinerk) 2003 Description / Buy
75 Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town (Short Story) ( With: J. Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie) 2004 Description / Buy
76 The Invisible Moose (Short Story) ( With: Dennis Haseley) 2006 Description / Buy
77 Clorinda Takes Flight (Short Story) ( With: Robert Kinerk) 2007 Description / Buy
78 The Pied Piper's Magic (Short Story) 2009 Description / Buy
79 Clorinda Plays Baseball! (Short Story) ( With: Robert Kinerk) 2012 Description / Buy
80 Farty Marty (Short Story) ( With: B.J. Ward) 2013 Description / Buy
81 The Green Bath (Short Story) ( With: Margaret Mahy) 2013 Description / Buy

Order of Steven Kellogg Short Story Collections

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1 The Best Is Yet to Be ( With: Larry Sudbay) 2018 Description / Buy

Order of Jimmy's Boa Series with Trinka Hakes Noble

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1 The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash (Short Story) 1980 Description / Buy
2 Jimmy's Boa Bounces Back (Short Story) 1984 Description / Buy
3 Jimmy's Boa and the Big Splash Birthday Bash (Short Story) 1989 Description / Buy
4 Jimmy's Boa and the Bungee Jump Slam Dunk (Short Story) 2003 Description / Buy

Steven Kellogg Anthologies

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1 The Exquisite Corpse Adventure 2011 Description / Buy
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He noticed that many of the adults in his vicinity were doing jobs that they did not love. A few of them enjoyed what they did. But quite a number were miserable. This left an impression on the author who decided that he would find a way to earn a living out of his artistic skills.

Of course, before he could fulfill his dreams, Kellogg needed to fine-tune his talents, a task he approached with fervor. The author took every opportunity that came his way to draw. He had two sisters that he would regale with stories.

They had a game where he would sit in between them and then feverishly produce drawings to match the stories he was telling. He would keep passing these drawings from one sister to the other, drawing as fast as possible until the three of them were buried in paper.

The game was decent training for the boy. Kellogg’s love for art persevered throughout his school years. And once he left high school, the boy found a place at the Rhode Island School of Design. No one was particularly surprised when he chose illustration as his major.

The classes he took showed Steven Kellogg how to match pictures to stories. His life took a turn for the better when he landed a fellowship that took him to Florence in Italy. This period was one of the most fulfilling of his life. But Kellogg never stopped drawing. If anything, he poured more of his efforts into the activity.

Once he returned to the US, Kellogg started actively pursuing his publishing dreams. This involved sending his artistic ideas for books to publishers. The author had to survive. So he did some teaching. But whenever the opportunity arose, he would poke and prod the publishing arena.

Eventually, someone reached out to the illustrator and gave him the opening he needed to become a full-time storyteller. He immersed himself in the process of creating stories, putting books together, organizing the illustrations and following each project from its infancy all the way to the final stage when his books reached the hands of readers.

During those same years, Kellogg raised a family. He married Helen Hill in 1967. They settled down on an old farmhouse in the Connecticut Hills with their six children. They shared their home with numerous dogs and cats. In the years that followed, the author’s renown grew.

People discovered Steven Kellogg’s love for animals and literacy through his advocacy. They discovered the work he was doing to support animal shelters, not to mention the thousands of schools and libraries he was visiting in his attempt to generate interest in reading, and their adoration for the illustrator grew.

According to the author, his ideas for stories always emerged from the memories of his childhood. He always endeavors to make each book as fun to read as it is to look at. He wants the words on the page and their corresponding illustrations to be equally engaging.

Steven Kellogg Awards

Kellogg has accumulated a bevy of prizes and accolades over the course of his extensive career, including Parent’s Choice, Boston Globe-Horn Book, and Irma Simonton Black Awards, to mention but a few. He was also awarded the Regina Medal.

Best Steven Kellogg Books

The illustrator has been commended for his distinct and detailed watercolor and pen drawings, with some of the best books in his bibliography including:

Paul Bunyan: Paul Bunyan is a figure from American Folklore. Steven Kellogg does what he can to bring the character to life using frenetic illustrations in this short children’s book that reveals Bunyan’s great feats which include gouging out the Grand Canyon and digging the Great Lakes.

Johnny Appleseed: John Chapman originated from Massachusetts. His birth had the Revolutionary War for a backdrop. As soon as the opportunity arose, Chapman headed West, planting the orchards that would supply apples to the settlers he was certain were following behind. Over the years, larger-than-life legends about his life emerged such as the tales of his pet wolf, tree-top hammock, and bear friends.

When Does The Next Steven Kellogg book come out?

Steven Kellogg doesn't seem to have an upcoming book. Their newest book is The Best Is Yet to Be and was released on September, 14th 2018. It is the newest book in the Steven Kellogg Short Story Collections.

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