About Douglas Evans

Home and Office: Berkeley, CA 94705

Interests: traveling, hiking, birding, camping, opera, piano, music composing

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Bio
Douglas Evans taught elementary-grade students for twenty-five years in settings ranging from a small logging town in Oregon to international schools in Helsinki and London. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio and attended Gates Mill Elementary School. Doug lived in Edina, Minnesota and Eugene, Oregon before moving to Berkeley, California. He has solo traveled to over one-hundred countries around the world. Doug believes the only thing better than writing for children is teaching children in a classroom.

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Selected Writings:
*Classroom at the End of the Hall

Front Street/Scholastic
*So What Do You Do? Front Street
*Apple Island, or, The Truth About Teachers

Front Street/Scholastic
*The Elevator Family

Delacorte Press
*Math Rashes and Other Classroom Tales

Front Street/Scholastic
*MVP*: Magellan Voyage Project

Astra Publishing House
*Mouth Moths, More Classroom Tales

Front Street/Scholastic
* Also wrote many stories and poems for the Cricket magazine group.
* Elevator Family Play first produced by Columbus Children's Theater February 2013
* MVP: Magellan Voyage Project screenplay
* Published music for both children and adults

Teachers and Librarians:
Let's set up a Skype or Zoom chat with your students. Great fun!

Meet the Author from CRICKET

From Contemporary Authors:
Douglas Evans commented: "Having taught in a wide variety of schools—one in a small logging town, two international schools in Europe, a private school in Berkeley, and one in an upper-class American suburb. I've been able to collect many ideas and experiences about children and fellow teachers. For the past twenty summers, I lived in Europe and traveled to over a hundred and-twenty countries, where I've also gathered material for stories."
Evans's experience with a wide variety of children and educational settings forms the basis for the tongue-in-cheek humor of his first published book, The Classroom at the End of the Hall. "Thought I finished the book in about a year's time," Evans explained to Sally Lodge in a Publishers Weekly interview, "Often writing through the night, I collected bits and pieces of the stories over time. But they are based on types of students every teacher knows: the class pain-in-the-neck, the daydreamer, the kid with the desk that is always messy. I'd see these kids year after year and began to think of magical ways that they could solve their problems."
Pleased with the positive response of students and fellow teachers to his work, Evans commented: "I consider teaching schoolchildren the noblest profession a person can have. I've had great fun writing about the classroom and spoofing teachers."

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