Scott O'dell was an American writer of children books who created 26 stories for youngsters, along with three adult stories and four nonfiction works. He was most famously the writer of the children's novel Island of the Blue Dolphins , which won the 1961 Newbery Medal and the 1963 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis as well as the Lewis Carroll Shelf Prize in 1961. Other prize winning works by O'dell include The King's Fifth , Black Star, Bright Dawn , The Black Pearl , and Sing Down the Moon ; which were all also Newbery Honor prize works. O'dell created primarily historical fiction. Many of his children's stories are about historical California and Mexico.
Scott O'Dell
