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Jim Aylesworth


Born
Jacksonville, FL, The United States
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Children's Books


Jim Aylesworth was born in Jacksonville, Florida but as an infant moved from the state. He lived in many places during his childhood: Alabama, Indiana, Georgia, Tennessee, Texas... but by the time Aylesworth was 15 his family had settled in Hinsdale, Illinois and that is where he graduated from high school in 1961.

In 1965, he graduated from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio with a B.A. in English. He returned to Hinsdale and began a career as a stockbroker. By 1970, however, Aylesworth was thinking about what he really wanted to do. After a series of assignments as a substitute teacher, Aylesworth ended up in a primary classroom. He began teaching first grade students in Oak Park, Illinois in 1971 and entered Concordia College in River Fores ...more

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The Gingerbread Man
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Old Black Fly
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My Grandfather's Coat
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The Tale of Tricky Fox
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Naughty Little Monkeys
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The Full Belly Bowl
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Our Abe Lincoln
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