![]() ![]() “Late at night, when the house was quiet, I sat up and wrote as long as I could stay awake,” Bulla said many years later. An enthusiastic reader who taught himself to play piano, he dropped out of high school after a year to work on the family farm but finished his studies through correspondence courses. He attended a one-room school and knew from an early age that he wanted to be a writer. And the next year the Southern California Council on Children’s Literature honored Bulla for his distinguished contribution to the field of children’s literature.īorn in 1914, Bulla grew up on a farm near King City, Mo., the youngest of four children. ![]() The Authors Club of Los Angeles named his “Benito” the outstanding juvenile book by a Southern California author in 1961. He also described the challenges faced by modern youths, most notably in “Shoeshine Girl” (1975), “The Chalk Box Kid” (1987) and “The Paint Brush Kid” (1999). ![]()
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