Joan Winsor Blos (December 9, 1928 – October 12, 2017) was an American writer, teacher and advocate for children's literacy.^[1]

For her 1979 historical novel, A Gathering of Days, Blos won the U.S. National Book Award in category Children's Books^[2][a] and the Newbery Medal for the year's most distinguished contribution to American children's literature.

She was born in New York City. She lived in Ann Arbor, Michigan.^[3][4]

• 1971 Just Think (with Betty Miles)
• 1979 A Gathering of Days; A New England Girl's Journal, 1830–32
• 1984 Martin's Hats
• 1985 Brothers of the Heart: A Story of the Old Northwest, 1837–1838
• 1988 Old Henry
• 1989 The Grandpa Days
• 1989 Lottie's Circus
• 1991 The Heroine of the Titanic: A Tale Both True and Otherwise of the Life of Molly Brown
• 1992 A Seed a Flower a Minute, an Hour
• 1994 Brooklyn Doesn't Rhyme
• 1995 The Hungry Little Boy
• 1996 Nellie Bly's Monkey: His Remarkable Story in His Own Words
• 1997 One Very Best Valentine's Day
• 1998 Bedtime!
• 1999 Hello, Shoes!
• 2007 Letters From the Corrugated Castle

• Joan Blos. Ann Arbor Book Festival website. Retrieved July 2, 2006.
• About Joan W. Blos – Biography. HarperCollins Publishers website. Retrieved July 2, 2006.
• Internet School Library Media Center bibliography

• Joan Blos at Library of Congress, with 21 library catalog records

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