"Better know a word-writing man alum: Jonathan Auxier".
^ a b Schlecker, Brady (May 16, 2016)."Jonathan Auxier wins big at CCBC Book Awards". ^ a b Cerny, Dory (November 18, 2015)."At the kids' table: Jonathan Auxier's debut recalls classic children's tales". "Jonathan auxier interview and book giveaway". Sweep: The Story of a Girl and her Monster. Sweep also won the Children's/YA prize at the 2019 Vine Awards for Canadian Jewish Literature. He won the Governor General's Award at the 2018 Governor General's Awards for Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster. The book was also a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature at the 2014 Governor General's Awards. Awards Īuxier won the TD Canadian Children's Literature Award and the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children Award for his 2014 novel The Night Gardener. During graduate school, Auxier worked on a side project to refresh his creativity which he would eventually develop into the novel Peter Nimble after graduating, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in screenwriting.
He earned a BA from Trinity Western University in 2003 and a MFA in Dramatic Writing from Carnegie Mellon University in 2005. Originally from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, he currently lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US with his wife. It’s destined to become a classic.Jonathan Auxier (born August 10, 1981) is a Canadian-born writer of young adult literature. There is so much to enjoy about this book-action, suspense, magic, justice, and the importance of friendship. She becomes determined to fight for the children who are forced into this dangerous job and reveal the truth about child sweeps. Nan resents that the people of London see the soot-covered children as happy little sweeps, not to mention good luck to have at their weddings. But the sweet and naive golem needs looking after as well and he and Nan form a warm friendship. Nan desperately needs protection from the cruel master sweep she is indentured to.
She and her friend Toby believe The Sweep gave Nan the golem to protect her. Nan was a climber and one of the best in London, but after getting stuck in a flue, she discovers that her piece of coal has turned into an adorable golem. He told Nan many stories and when it was time for him to depart, he left her a magical piece of coal. When Nan was younger, she was looked after by a kindhearted man known as The Sweep. Sweep, The Story of a Girl and Her Monster by Jonathan Auxier is a heartwarming story about an eleven-year-old orphan who works as a chimney sweep in London in 1875. Auxier masterfully mixes a m agical tale with the truth about the dangerous lives of chimney sweeps (often children) in the 1800s.
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