Kristy Dempsey

Kristy Dempsey is a children's book author currently living in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. She won the 2015 Golden Kite Award for Picture Book Text on her book ''A Dance Like Starlight: One Ballerina's Dream''.

Early life and non-writing career

Dempsey was born in Lake City, South Carolina She lived in Gastonia, North Carolina, Statesville, North Carolina, Elizabethton, Tennessee, and Greenville, South Carolina as a child. She attended Furman University in Greenville. Later she lived in Carrollton, Georgia. In 1998 she moved to Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

Dempsey is a Middle School/High School/ Advanced Placement Language and Composition English Teacher and has been a school librarian. She teaches at the American School of Belo Horizonte.

Publications

*''Me With You'' (PreS-Grade 1) (Philomel 2009)
*''Mini Racer'' (PreSchool-Grade1) ( Bloomsbury 2011)
*''Surfer Chick'' (Abrams 2012)
*''A Dance Like Starlight'' (Picture book. 3–7) (Philomel 2014)
*''Superhero Instruction Manual'' (Picture book. 4–8) (Knopf 2016)
*''Ten Little Toes, Two Small Feet'' (Picture book. 1–3) (Little Bee 2016)
*''Ten Little Fingers, Two Small Hands'' (Picture book. 1–3) (Little Bee 2016)
*''A Hop is Up'' (Picture book. 2–4) (Bloomsbury 2016)
*''Papa Put a Man on the Moon'' (Picture book. 6–8) (Dial Books 2019)

Critical responses

A review of ''Papa Put a Man on the Moon'' in ''Publishers Weekly'' said:

A review of ''Papa Put a Man on the Moon'' in ''Kirkus Reviews'' said:

Jasmine L. Precopio writing in ''School Library Journal'' said of ''Papa Put a Man on the Moon'':

A starred review of ''A Dance Like Starlight'' in ''Kirkus Reviews'' said:

Barbara Auerbach writing in ''School Library Journal'' said of ''A Dance Like Starlight'':

Ann Kelley, in a starred review of ''A Dance Like Starlight'' in ''Booklist'' wrote:

Michelle Wardrip, writing in the ''Statesman Journal'' said of ''A Dance Like Starlight'':

Carolyn Eubanks, writing in the Petersburg, Virginia ''Progress-Index'' said of ''A Dance Like Starlight'':

A review of ''Superhero Instruction Manual'' in ''Kirkus Reviews'' said:

A review of ''Ten Little Fingers, Two Small Hands'' in ''Kirkus Reviews'' said:

A review of ''A Hop is Up'' in ''Kirkus Reviews'' said:

A review of ''Ten Little Toes, Two Small Feet'' in ''Kirkus Reviews'' said:

Marge Loch-Wouters, writing in ''School Library Journal'', said of ''Mini Racer'':

Randall Enos, writing in ''Booklist'' said of ''Me with You'':

Karen MacPherson, writing in the ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'' described ''Surfer Chick'' as "the comically inspiring tale of a gnarly new legend".

References

External links

Official site

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Living people
Brazilian children's writers
Brazilian women children's writers
Brazilian women writers
Brazilian writers
Year of birth missing (living people)