Welcome to my web page on The Life of Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. You will find FAQ’s, where she lived, and much more.

BIOGRAPHY-

    Phyllis Reynolds Naylor is 68 years old. She thinks that writing is the most important thing and she’ll never give it up! She has been writing for a very long time and enjoys what she writes. She liked to make up stories her whole life. She believes that what she writes is what she feels. If the book she is writing is sad, so is she.

    Phyllis Naylor was born in Anderson, Indiana, in 1933. When she was young, she loved to play around on cardboard boxes and slide down hills on them. But her favorite thing to do was write. Then she lived in Bethesda, Maryland, with her husband Rex, and her two sons Jeff and Michael.

    When she got to college, she was studying to be a clinical psychologist. Phyllis liked to write all kinds of stories. She usually wrote two books at a time. She starts on serious books and funny books in one day some in the morning, and some in the afternoon. She has written some books about witchcraft such as Witch’s Sister, Witch Water, and The Witch Herself. She has written some ghost books also like Shadows on the Wall, Faces in the Water, and Footprints at the Window.

    She said one of her favorite books is A String of Chances. She says, "It’s about a sixteen year old girl named Evie Hutchins who, during a summer that shakes her faith in her deepest beliefs, is finally able to look at both herself and her family with a new perspective."

    As Phyllis was growing up, she thought that the book was important, and that the authors weren’t. When she got in fifth grade, writing was her favorite thing to do. Her first book was published when she was 16 years old. She couldn’t wait to write books when she was little.
 
 

This is nine of Phyllis Naylor’s book:

The Grooming Of Alice

Bernie Magruder And The Parachute Peril

Jade Green

Walker’s Crossing

Bernie Magruder And The Haunted Hotel

Bernie Magruder And The Disappearing Bodies

I Can’t Take You Anymore!

How I Came To Be A Writer

Alice On The Outside

    She said, "My book’s are based on what has happened to me, things I have heard or read about, all mixed up with my imaginings." She imagines that the characters she is writing about comes alive and does what she writes. (Like a movie on the desk.) She imagines what she writes in her head.

    I recommend the book Shiloh, because it is a very interesting book (my opinion). It is about a boy named Marty, who found a dog and he became best friends with the dog. He named it Shiloh. Marty was very nice to Shiloh and fed him even though his parents never knew about Shiloh. I don’t want to tell you too much about the book or the book wouldn’t be interesting anymore, so if you want to read a book about a dog, this is a great book.

QUESTIONS

1.Q- When was Phyllis Reynolds Naylor's first book published? And where?

A- Her first book was published when she was 16 years old and it was published in a Church Magazine!

2.Q- How many books does Phyllis Nayor work on at a time?

A- Phyllis works on two at a time sometime. She starts one in the morning and then starts a different one in the afternoon.

3.Q- What is one of Phyllis' favorite books?

A- Phyllis like the book A String of Chances, she said, "It's about a sixteen year old girl Evie Hutchins who, during a summer that shakes her faith in her deepest beliefs, is finally able to look at both herself and her family with a new perspective.

4.Q- Where were you born? And when?

A- Phyllis Naylor was born in Anderson, Indiana in 1933, during the Great Depression.

5.Q- How many people does Phyllis have in her immediate family?

1. Phyllis Naylor has two sons and a husband. She spends a lot of time with them. They usually go hiking and swimming together and many other family trips.

Alice Alone

Percy’s Picnic

A Spy Among the Girls

The Grooming of Alice

Jade Green ; A Ghost Story

These are some of Phyllis Naylor's books that were published

Books for Young Adult

1967 To Shake a Shadow

1968 When Rivers Meet

1970 Making It Happen

1972 No Easy Circle

1976 Walking Through the Dark

1980 Shadows on the Wall

1981 Faces in the Water

1981 Footprints at the Window

1982 A String of Chances

1983 The Solomon System

1984 Night Cry

1985 The Dark of the Tunnel

1986 The Keeper

1987 The Year of the Gopher

1990 Send No Blessings

Books for Middle Grades

1965 The Galloping Goat and Other Stories

1967 What the Gulls Were Singing

1969 To Make a Wee Moon

1971 Wrestle Mountain

1973 To Walk the Sky Path

1975 Witch's Sister

1976 Getting Along with Your Family

1977 Witch Water

1978 The Witch Herself

1978 How I Can to be a Writer

1979 Getting Along with Your Friends

1979 How Lazy Can You Get?

1980 Eddie, Incorporated

1981 Getting Along with Your Teacher

1983 The Mad Gasser of Bessledorf Street

1985 The Agony of Alice

1986 The Bodies in the Bessledorf Hotel

1987 Beetles, Lightly Toasted

1988 Maudie in the Middle

1988 One of the Third Grade Thonkers

1989 Alice in Rapture, Sort Of

1990 Bernie and the Bessledorf Ghost

1991 Shiloh

1991 Witch Weed

1991 Reluctantly Alice

1992 The Witch Returns

1992 Josie's Trouble

1992 All But Alice

1993 The Face in the Bessledorf Funeral Parlor

1993 The Grand Escape

1993 The Boys Start the War
                                                                                                                          - Kayla