JOHN GRANDITS

  

John Grandits has worked in publishing most of his life. As a designer and art director, he's attacked adult trade, college text, scholarly, juvenile trade and juvenile text books. For many years he was an art director at the Cricket Magazine Group where he helped launch Muse and Click.

Forthcoming:

The Travel Game
Clarion Books

Ten Rules You Absolutely Must Not Break
If You Want to Survive the School Bus
Clarion Books

Published:

Blue Lipstick: Concrete Poems
Clarion Books

• 2008 Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers, Non-fiction,
  Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)
• NAPPA Gold Winner
• Named as one of the Best Books of 2007
  School Library Journal
• Kirkus Reviews, "Editor's Choice"

Technically, It's Not My Fault: Concrete Poems
Clarion Books, 2004

• Named as a Notable Book for Children
  and as a "Quick Pick" for Reluctant Young Adult Readers
  by the American Library Association

Grandits's writing credits include:

Writing on Fine Art:

Pictures Tell Stories, Open Court

The Heidelberg Project, Muse Magazine

Artists Tell Stories, Click Magazine

Languages of Art, Muse Magazine

What Are They Talking About, Muse Magazine

Other Writing:

Beatrice Black Bear, Illustrated by Brian Floca,
every issue of Click Magazine

Mr. Spuffington Saves the Night, Click Magazine

Mr. Spuffington Makes Lunch, Click Magazine

Buffalo, Cricket Magazine

How Writing Began: From Apple to Alphabet, Click Magazine