“By the same token, I think that every reader who reads a book is translating it into the language of his mind. The main difference between translating a book into another language and translating it into a movie is that a book can take you into someone else’s head, and a movie can’t. Only through reading the written word, in whatever language, can you learn what Winston Elliot Carmichael, the hero of this story, is thinking.
“I don’t know if My Father’s Daughter will catch your eye, but I hope it will engage your mind and your heart. And something else: I hope your feelings will translate into love.”
E. L. Konigsburg received the Newbery Medal and a Newbery Honor for her first two books, From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler and Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley and Me, Elizabeth. She won her second Newbery Medal for The View from Saturday. Her other acclaimed books include Silent to the Bone, The Second Mrs. Gioconda, and The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place. She lives in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.
Also by E. L. Konigsburg
Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth,
William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth
From the Mixed-up Files
of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Altogether, One at a Time
A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver
The Dragon in the Ghetto Caper
The Second Mrs. Gioconda
My Father’s Daughter
Throwing Shadows
About the B’nai Bagels
(George)
Journey to an 800 Number
Up from Jericho Tel
Samuel Todd’s Book of Great Colors
Samuel Todd’s Book of Great Inventions
Amy Elizabeth Explores Bloomingdale’s
T-Backs, T-Shirts, COAT, and Suit
TalkTalk: A Children’s Book Author
Speaks to Grown-ups
The View from Saturday
Silent to the Bone
The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place
The Mysterious Edge
of the Heroic World
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