1. Biography

2. Works
    Journalism  Children's books  Other works 

3. References

4. External links

Mandel is a journalist,^[6][7]

and essayist.^[8][9]

One of his Boston Globe articles won a gold Lowell Thomas award from The Society of American Travel Writers in 2005 for adventure travel article of the year.^[10] Articles of Mandel's for The Washington Post won bronze Lowell Thomas awards in 2003 and 2006.^[11][12]

Biography

Son of Paul Mandel, a novelist and Life magazine editor,^[13][14]

Mandel grew up in Manhattan,^[15]

graduating from Middlebury College and Brown University.^[16][17]

He lives now in Providence, Rhode Island with his wife, Kathryn Byrd Mandel.

Works

Journalism

A contributor to the travel sections of The Washington Post,^[18][19]

and The Huffington Post,^[23] Mandel’s essays for The Wall Street Journal,^[24][25]

Children's books

Mandel's picture books for young children tend to be simple texts with only a few rhyming or rhythmic phrases per page.^[28][29] Zoo Ah-Choooo, illustrated by Elwood Smith (Holiday House, 2012), fits this template, adding exaggerated animal sounds into the mix. "Gusty splatters and loud, boisterous sneezes can't lose with the preschool set,” said Kirkus Reviews.^[30] His picture book, Jackhammer Sam (Macmillan/Roaring Brook, 2011), picks up on the sound of a pneumatic drill, something Mandel recalls from growing up in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood.^[15][31] "If a new Walt Whitman broke up sidewalks with a jackhammer, this is exactly what his 'Song of Myself' would be," wrote Mary Harris Russell in her review for The Chicago Tribune. "Like New York City itself, Sam is wonderful and overwhelming, rattling and mesmerizing," said Publishers Weekly in the magazine's 2011 review.^[32][33] Mandel’s Bun, Onion, Burger (Simon & Schuster, 2010) was named a Summer 2010 Children's Indie Next Pick by the American Booksellers Association,^[34] and the equally simple Red Cat White Cat, illustrated by Clare Mackie (Henry Holt, 1994), was an American Bookseller Pick of the Lists and received a starred review in Kirkus. Say Hey! A Song of Willie Mays (Hyperion/ Jump at the Sun, 2000) was selected for The Jump at the Sun Treasury: An African American Picture Book Collection (Hyperion/Jump at the Sun, 2001) ^[35] and was included in the Baseball As America exhibit curated by the National Baseball Hall of Fame as an example of baseball in popular culture.^[36] One of the early titles for young children about African-American baseball players from the 1960s, Say Hey! was followed by several picture books including Hank Aaron: Brave in Every Way by Peter Golenbock (Harcourt, 2001) and Roberto Clemente: Pride of the Pittsburgh Pirates by Jonah Winter (Atheneum, 2008).^[37][38]

• The Official Cat I.Q. Test, illustrated by June Otani (HarperCollins, 1991). {{ISBN|0060965924}}, {{ISBN|978-0060965921}}
• The Cat Dictionary, illustrated by Annette Busse (Penguin, 1994). {{ISBN|0140246614}}, {{ISBN|978-0140246612}}
• Red Cat White Cat, illustrated by Clare Mackie (Henry Holt, 1994). {{ISBN|080502929X}}, {{ISBN|978-0805029291}}
• Say Hey! A Song of Willie Mays, illustrated by Don Tate (Hyperion/Jump at the Sun, 2000). {{ISBN|0786804807}}, {{ISBN|978-0786804801}}
• My Ocean Liner: Across the North Atlantic on the Great Ship Normandie, illustrated by Betsey MacDonald (Stemmer House, 2000). {{ISBN|0880451491}}, {{ISBN|978-0880451499}}
• The Jump at the Sun Treasury: An African American Picture Book Collection (Hyperion/Jump at the Sun, 2001). {{ISBN|0786807547}}, {{ISBN|978-0786807543}}
• Planes at the Airport, illustrated by Edward Miller (Scholastic/Cartwheel, 2004). {{ISBN|0439564166}}, {{ISBN|978-0439564168}}
• Boats on the River, illustrated by Edward Miller (Scholastic/Cartwheel, 2004). {{ISBN|0439564158}}, {{ISBN|978-0439564151}}
• Bun, Onion, Burger, illustrated by Chris Eliopoulos (Simon & Schuster, 2010). {{ISBN|1416924663}}, {{ISBN|978-1416924661}}
• Jackhammer Sam, illustrated by David Catrow (Macmillan/Roaring Brook, 2011). {{ISBN|1596430346}}, {{ISBN|978-1596430341}}
• Zoo Ah-Choooo, illustrated by Elwood Smith (Holiday House, 2012). {{ISBN|0823423174}}, {{ISBN|978-0823423170}}

Other works

Three articles of Mandel's, from The Washington Post and The Baltimore Sun, were included in the 2015 anthology of travel journalism, Adventures of a Lifetime: Travel Tales from Around the World.^[39]

An essay by Mandel, "An American Cat in Paris," was included in the 1999 anthology, Chicken Soup for the Cat & Dog Lover's Soul, and reprinted in the 2008 anthology, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Loving Our Cats.^[40]

He contributed a brief autobiographical chapter and recipe to the 2006 anthology Authors in the Pantry.^[41]

References

External links

• {{official website|http://www.petermandel.net}}
• Profile of Peter Mandel as part of the "Inside the Writer’s Studio" series about authors on the Read Local/Barrington Books (R.I.) website.
• Citation of article by Peter Mandel in book, [https://books.google.com/books?id=avD3XicGsh4C&pg=PA85 Sacred Stacks: The Higher Purpose of Libraries And Librarianship] by Nancy Kalikow Maxwell (American Library Association, 2006); {{ISBN|0838909175}}.
• "Zoo Ah-Choooo: Peter Mandel, Author", review of Mandel's children's book, Zoo Ah-Choooo, Publishers Weekly, February 1, 2012.
• "Jackhammer Sam by Peter Mandel; illustrated by David Catrow", https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/peter-mandel/jackhammer-sam/, review of Mandel's children's book, Jackhammer Sam, Kirkus Reviews, September 14, 2011.
• "Bun, Onion. Burger: Peter Mandel, Author", http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-4169-2466-1, review of Mandel's children's book, Bun, Onion, Burger, Publishers Weekly, June 14, 2010.
• "My Ocean Liner: Across the North Atlantic on the Great Ship Normandie, Peter Mandel, Author; Betsey MacDonald, Illustrator; John Maxtone-Graham, Introduction", review of Mandel's children's book, My Ocean Liner, Publishers Weekly, Oct. 28, 2000.
• Interview with Peter Mandel on website for guidebook, Travel Writing 2.0: Earning Money from Your Travels in the New Media Landscape by Tim Leffel (Splinter Press, 2010); {{ISBN|1609101081}}, {{ISBN|978-1609101084}}.
• Interview with Peter Mandel, Kidoinfo.com website.

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