She is also the co-founder of Firefly Shadow Theater where she designs puppets, and wrote and directed shows. Amato can also be seen playing her music and performing her songs throughout the Maryland-Washington, D.C. When she is not writing, Amato does "an insane amount of appearances and teaching." All school assemblies, residencies, classroom workshops, and workshops for teachers are just some of the avenues she uses to connect with her readers and the community. Booklist and School Library Journal both gave The Word Eater favorable reviews. However, as Flip consumes the words, the actual objects represented by the word disappear. Among her awards are the Heekin Foundation's Fellowship for Children's Novel in Progress, the Washington Post's Grants in the Arts, The Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County's Artists in Schools/Artists in Residence Grant, and The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators National Magazine Writing Award and Nonfiction Book Grant.Īmato's first book The Word Eater, published in 2000, portrays a sixth-grade girl named Lerner who discovers Flip, a word-eating bookworm. Since then she has become an award-winning children's and YA author, poet, playwright, and songwriter. Mary Amato started writing at age seven when her mother gave her a journal to write about her family's trip to California.
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