Molly Bang

About the Author

Molly Bang was born in Princeton, New Jersey in 1943. After college, Bang taught English in Japan. She returned to the U.S and earned her graduate degree in East Asian Languages and Literatures, then worked in India, Bangladesh, and West Africa for Johns Hopkins, Unicef and Harvard. Her first books show more were translations of folktales, which she also illustrated. Bang has received many awards and honors, including the prestigious Caldecott Honor Book Award three times, for The Grey Lady and the Strawberry Snatcher, Ten, Nine, Eight and When Sophie Gets Angry - Really, Really Angry. She won the Giverny Award for Best Science Picture Book for Common Ground in 1998. Ten, Nine, Eight also won the ALA Notable Children's Book and When Sophie Gets Angry - Really, Really Angry, won the Charlotte Zolotow Award. It was also an ALA Notable Book and a Jane Addams Children's Honor Book Her titles include Nobody Particular: One Woman's Fight to Save the Bays, Tiger's Fall, Little Rat Sets Sail, My Light, and Picture This: Perception and Composition. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

Includes the names: Molly Bang, Molly Bang, Molly Bank, Mollly Bang, Molly Garrett Bang, Molly Garrettt Bang, Molly(Illustrator) Molly(Author) ; Bang Bang

Series

When Sophie

Sunlight

Works by Molly Bang

Ten, Nine, Eight (1983) 2,353 copies

The Paper Crane (1985) 1,196 copies

Picture This: How Pictures Work (1991) 630 copies

Living sunlight : how plants bring the earth to life (2009) — Author — 447 copies

The Grey Lady and the Strawberry Snatcher (1980) 428 copies

My Light (2004) — Author — 312 copies

When Sophie's Feelings Are Really, Really Hurt (1605) 293 copies

Yellow Ball (1991) 293 copies

Goose (1996) 267 copies

Common Ground: The Water, Earth, and Air We Share (1997) 263 copies

Ocean Sunlight: How Tiny Plants Feed the Seas (2012) 218 copies

All of Me!: A Book of Thanks (2009) 171 copies

When Sophie Thinks She Can't... (2018) 167 copies

Dawn (1789) 145 copies

Tye May and the Magic Brush (1981) 120 copies

Wiley and the Hairy Man: Adapted from an American Folk Tale (Ready-to-Read) (1976) 120 copies

Buried Sunlight: How Fossil Fuels Have Changed the Earth (2014) — Author — 119 copies

In My Heart (2006) 113 copies

Rivers of Sunlight: How the Sun Moves Water Around the Earth (2017) — Author — 99 copies

Picture This: Perception & Composition (1991) 91 copies

Delphine (1988) 82 copies

Nobody Particular: One Woman's Fight to Save the Bays (1800) 72 copies

One Fall Day (1994) 41 copies

Tiger's Fall (2001) 41 copies

Chattanooga Sludge (1996) 30 copies

Men from the Village Deep in the Mountains and Other Japanese Folk Tales (1973) 13 copies

The goblins giggle, and other stories (1973) 9 copies

The Buried Moon and Other Stories (1977) 9 copies

When Sophie Gets Angry Really Really Angry (Korean Edition) by Bang, Molly (2013) Hardcover (1800) 3 copies

Giggle, Giggle Quack / The Amazing Bone / Goose / Diary of a Worm (2005) 3 copies

Goose -VHS 2 copies

When Sophie Gets Angry-Really, Really Angry (Scholastic Bookshelf: Feelings) 2 copies

Painting Mist and Fog 1 copy

How to write a hero/ine adventure journey folktale: A manual for teachers of grades 8 and 9 1 copy

The Paper Crane 1 copy

Wben Sophie Gets Angry- Really, Really Angry 1 copy

Imagínatelo 1 copy

Ten, Nine, Eight (Picture Puffin) by Bang Molly (1985-05-07) Paperback 1 copy

Manuel pour les Hygienistes-Secouristes 1 copy

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Associated Works

The 20th-Century Children's Book Treasury: Picture Books and Stories to Read Aloud (1998) — Author — 1,585 copies

From Sea to Shining Sea A Treasury of American Folklore and Folk Songs (1993) — Illustrator — 695 copies

The Day Leo Said I Hate You! (2008) — Illustrator — 198 copies

Harley (2001) — Illustrator — 146 copies

Little Rat Makes Music (2007) — Illustrator — 104 copies

The demons of Rajpur : five tales from Bengal (1980) — Illustrator — 15 copies

Cricket Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 7, March 1978 (1978) — Contributor — 5 copies

Cricket Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 8, April 1978 (1978) — Contributor — 5 copies

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Common Knowledge

Legal name: Bang, Molly Garrett
Birthdate: 1943-12-29
Gender: female
Nationality: USA
Places of residence: San Francisco, California, USA

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Reviews

All of Me!: A Book of Thanks by Molly Bang

This is a book about a little boy who is thanking all his body parts for their usefulness. He also is thankful for other things in his life too, such as his mom.

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kayleeandgizmo | 27 other reviews | Jun 6, 2024 |

Living Sunlight: How Plants Bring The Earth To Life by Molly Bang

Picture book with a surprising amount of scientific detail. Beautiful illustrations that are actually visual representations of the process of photosynthesis, respiration, and energy production, all tied between the sunlight, plants, and animals. Told from the point of view of the sun, the author traces the journey from the photons of the sun to the processes happening within plants and animals for growth and life. Great resource for studying heterotrophs vs. autotrophs, or cellular respiration and metabolism, etc.… (more)

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JoyfulMommy07 | 37 other reviews | May 1, 2024 |