The daughter of which famous author of many children’s books wrote “A Childhood at Green Hedges”?
"its place. A road named Blyton Close stands in the approximate location of the house. Green Hedges Green Hedges was Enid Blyton's home from 1938 until near her death. She wrote most of her books there and also held the famous Story Parties there. The house was situated off Penn Road in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. In 1938, Enid Blyton and her first husband Hugh Alexander Pollock moved to the eight-bedroomed, mock-Tudor mansion where she would live for the rest of her life. There were large lawns, tennis courts, and a rose garden. There was also a large porch at the side."
"Doris Gates Doris Gates (November 26, 1901 – September 3, 1987) was one of America's first writers of realistic children's fiction. Her novel ""Blue Willow"", about the experiences of Janey Larkin, the ten-year-old daughter of a migrant farm worker in 1930s California, is a Newbery Honor book and Lewis Carroll Shelf Award winner. A librarian in Fresno, California, Gates lived and worked among the people described in her novels. She is also known for her collections of Greek mythology. Doris Gates was born on November 26, 1901, in Mountain View, California, the oldest daughter of Charles Obed and Bessie Louise"
"Michelle Y. Green Michelle Y. Green is an American author of children’s literature. She graduated from the University of Maryland the Johns Hopkins Master's Program in Writing and teaches several courses, including one on writing children’s literature. She has two sons, Bryan and Evan Green. Her historical fiction focuses on what she describes as “holes in history,” little-known yet extraordinary stories of African Americans and minority groups in the United States. Her childhood inspiration, read to her in school in Germany, was Laura Ingalls Wilder’s ""Little House on the Prairie"". Her father was in the military and a member of"
"a park for her (Lucy Maud Montgomery Park) and in 1983 placed a historical marker there near the house where she lived from 1935 until her death in 1942. On November 30, 2015 (her 141st birthday), Google honoured Lucy Maud Montgomery with a Google Doodle published in twelve countries. Lucy Maud Montgomery Lucy Maud Montgomery (November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942), published as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning in 1908 with ""Anne of Green Gables"". The book was an immediate success. The central character, Anne Shirley, an orphaned girl,"
"on to say her excellent characterization and sensitivity toward her characters make her books ""a solid contribution to American children's literature"". Doris Gates Doris Gates (November 26, 1901 – September 3, 1987) was one of America's first writers of realistic children's fiction. Her novel ""Blue Willow"", about the experiences of Janey Larkin, the ten-year-old daughter of a migrant farm worker in 1930s California, is a Newbery Honor book and Lewis Carroll Shelf Award winner. A librarian in Fresno, California, Gates lived and worked among the people described in her novels. She is also known for her collections of Greek mythology."
"in the US in September 2009. Bridget lives in Miami, FL. As Bridget Kendall Bond and the Big Green Hill (2009), , LCCN: 2009908626. Bridget Renee Kendall Bridget Renee Kendall is an author of children's books in the United States. She was born in 1979 in Jonesboro, Louisiana. Bridget is a native of Louisville, Kentucky and currently lives in Miami, Florida. Educated at Pleasure Ridge Park High School and University of Phoenix, she worked in the education industry before turning to fiction. She is best known for writing the children's book, ""Bond and the Big Green Hill"", which focus on"
"Lucy Maud Montgomery Lucy Maud Montgomery (November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942), published as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning in 1908 with ""Anne of Green Gables"". The book was an immediate success. The central character, Anne Shirley, an orphaned girl, made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following. The first novel was followed by a series of sequels with Anne as the central character. Montgomery went on to publish 20 novels as well as 530 short stories, 500 poems, and 30 essays. Most of the"
"celebrates ""excellence in writing for children and to emphasize its continuing vital importance."" The lecturers are children's literature authors, scholars or critics, and most of the lectures are published online. Philippa Pearce Ann Philippa Pearce OBE (22 January 1920 – 21 December 2006) was an English author of children's books. Her most famous work is the time-slip fantasy novel ""Tom's Midnight Garden"", which won the 1958 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, as the year's outstanding children's book by a British subject. Pearce was a commended runner-up for the Medal a further four times. The youngest of four children of"
"ludis et hortis virginibus puerisque"". Part I – A Child's Garden of Verses The Child Alone Garden Days Envoys A Child's Garden of Verses A Child's Garden of Verses is a collection of poetry for children about childhood, illness, play and solitude by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. The collection first appeared in 1885 under the title Penny Whistles, but has been reprinted many times, often in illustrated versions. It contains about 65 poems including the cherished classics ""Foreign Children,"" ""The Lamplighter,"" ""The Land of Counterpane,"" ""Bed in Summer,"" ""My Shadow"" and ""The Swing."" The classical scholar Terrot Reaveley"
"including Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Fanny Bowditch Dixwell Holmes, Alice James, Charles Franklin Thwing, Horace Howard Furness, and Edward Everett Hale. She also contributed to charitable causes such as the Massachusetts Infant Asylum. Annie Haven Thwing Annie Haven Thwing (July 4, 1851 – June 5, 1940), also known as A.H. Thwing or Anne Haven Thwing, was an American historian and children's author. Her book for children, ""Chicken Little"", with illustrations by Nelly Littlehale Umbstaetter, appeared in 1899; as the title suggests, the book re-tells the old story of a chicken who believes the sky is falling. As an historian Thwing"
"A Child's Garden of Verses A Child's Garden of Verses is a collection of poetry for children about childhood, illness, play and solitude by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. The collection first appeared in 1885 under the title Penny Whistles, but has been reprinted many times, often in illustrated versions. It contains about 65 poems including the cherished classics ""Foreign Children,"" ""The Lamplighter,"" ""The Land of Counterpane,"" ""Bed in Summer,"" ""My Shadow"" and ""The Swing."" The classical scholar Terrot Reaveley Glover published a translation of the poems into Latin in 1922 under the title ""Carmina non prius audita de"
"C. Walter Hodges Cyril Walter Hodges (18 March 1909 – 26 November 2004) was an English artist and writer best known for illustrating children's books and for helping recreate Elizabethan theatre. He won the annual Greenaway Medal for British children's book illustration in 1964. Cyril Walter Hodges was born in Beckenham, Kent, the son of Cyril Hodges, ""a leading figure in advertising and copyrighting"". He was educated at Dulwich College, which he recalled as ""a wretched imprisonment"", and at Goldsmiths' College of Art. Hodges fell in love with Greta Becker, a hopeful ballet dancer, and they married in 1936. She"
"Anne of Green Gables Anne of Green Gables is a 1908 novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery (published as L. M. Montgomery). Written for all ages, it has been considered a classic children's novel since the mid-twentieth century. Set in the late 19th century, the novel recounts the adventures of Anne Shirley, an 11-year-old orphan girl, who was mistakenly sent to two middle-aged siblings; Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, originally intending to adopt a boy to help them on their farm in the fictional town of Avonlea on Prince Edward Island. The novel recounts how Anne makes her way through"
"A Clergyman's Daughter A Clergyman's Daughter is a 1935 novel by English author George Orwell. It tells the story of Dorothy Hare, the clergyman's daughter of the title, whose life is turned upside down when she suffers an attack of amnesia. It is Orwell's most formally experimental novel, featuring a chapter written entirely in dramatic form, but he was never satisfied with it and he left instructions that after his death it was not to be reprinted. Despite stating ""A Clergyman's Daughter"" (and ""Keep the Aspidistra Flying"") should be not reprinted, he did consent that after his death he did"
"converted to good works. Georgina Castle Smith Georgina Castle Smith (née Georgina Meyrick, pseudonym Brenda, 9 May 1845 – 27 December 1933) was a popular, productive English writer of didactic children's books. Some of her books highlighted the social needs of ""street arabs"" (homeless children) and encouraged people to donate clothing and food to them. Georgina was the fourth child of a solicitor, William Meyrick (1809 or 1810–1898), in Bayswater, London, and his wife Eliza (""née"" James, born 1817 or 1818). She suffered as a child from hay fever and asthma, which encouraged her to be bookish. Having appeared as"
"Bridget Renee Kendall Bridget Renee Kendall is an author of children's books in the United States. She was born in 1979 in Jonesboro, Louisiana. Bridget is a native of Louisville, Kentucky and currently lives in Miami, Florida. Educated at Pleasure Ridge Park High School and University of Phoenix, she worked in the education industry before turning to fiction. She is best known for writing the children's book, ""Bond and the Big Green Hill"", which focus on the adventures of Bond the Cat, a Tuxedo cat who teaches moralistic lessons with his adventures. ""Bond and the Big Green Hill"" was released"
"Green Knowe Green Knowe is a series of six children's novels written by Lucy M. Boston, illustrated by her son Peter Boston, and published from 1954 to 1976. It features a very old house, Green Knowe, based on Boston's home at the time, The Manor in Hemingford Grey, Huntingdonshire. In the novels she brings to life the people she imagines might have lived there. For the fourth book in the series, ""A Stranger at Green Knowe"" (1961), Boston won the annual Carnegie Medal, recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject. She was a commended runner up for"
"children (grades 2 to 6). It is funded largely by DucKon, a yearly science fiction convention in the Chicago region. Eleanor Cameron Eleanor Frances (Butler) Cameron (March 23, 1912 – October 11, 1996) was a children's author and critic. She published 20 books in her lifetime, including ""The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet"" (1954) and its sequels, a collection of critical essays called ""The Green and Burning Tree"" (1969), and ""The Court of the Stone Children"" (1973), which won the U.S. National Book Award in category Children's Books Eleanor Cameron was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba in Canada on March"
"Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year – Early Childhood Award. She has since started writing her own children's books, the first being ""The Story of GROWL"" (2007), followed by ""These are My Hands"" (2008), ""These are My Feet"" (2009) and ""Yellow is my favourite colour"" Judy Horacek Judy Horacek (born 12 November 1961) is an Australian cartoonist, artist, writer and children's book creator. She is best known for her award winning children's picture book ""Where is the Green Sheep?"" with Mem Fox, and her weekly cartoons in The Age newspaper. Horacek's latest book is ""Random Life"" (2017),"
"Claire Annabel Caroline Grant Duff Claire Annabel Caroline Grant Duff (25 December 1870 – 12 January 1944) was a poet, writer and high society hostess. She published her memoir ""A Victorian Childhood"" in 1932 with Methuen Publishing. She was the eldest daughter of Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff and Anna Julia Webster. She was the author of ""A Victorian Childhood"", which was published in 1932, under the pen name Annabel Jackson. In 1894, she married in Frederick Huth Jackson, a partner in the private bank, Frederick Huth and Sons. They had one son, Frederick who married Helen Vinogradoff, daughter of the"
"distress that she had felt unable to discuss her plans with her daughters without risking making them accessories."". She died at home in Lewes, Sussex on June 17, 2009 and was survived by two daughters and two granddaughters. Jane Aiken Hodge Jane Aiken Hodge (December 4, 1917 – June 17, 2009) was an American-born British writer. Born near Cambridge, Massachusetts, the second child of Pulitzer prize-winning poet Conrad Aiken and his first wife, the writer Jessie McDonald. Jane Hodge was 3 years old when her family moved to Great Britain, settling in Rye, East Sussex where her younger sister, Joan,"
"Ellen MacGregor Ellen MacGregor (May 15, 1906 – March 29, 1954) was an American children's writer. She is known best for the Miss Pickerell series of children's novels. She was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to George Malcolm MacGregor and Charlotte Genevieve Noble MacGregor. and was educated in schools in Garfield and Kent, Washington. She attended the University of Washington in Seattle, receiving a Bachelor of Science in library science in 1926. She did postgraduate work in science at the University of California, Berkeley. She worked in numerous libraries, wrote several well-received children's books and numerous magazine articles, and died in"
"adult, the characterization, vocabulary, and plotting are appropriate to all ages from—say—eleven up. ""To Build a Land"" won the Woodward Annual Award in 1959. ""Witch of the Glens"" was on the Horn Book Magazine honor list in 1963. ""The Mukhtar's Children"" was named as a Horn Book Magazine Fanfare Best Book of the Year in 1968 . ""Magic at Wychwood"" was recommended by Library Journal in 1970. ""Linnet"" was a Junior Literary Guild selection in 1971. Sally Watson Sally Watson (January 28, 1924) is an American author best known for her English Family Tree series, which encompasses generations of a"
"Etruscans: An Unsolved Mystery"" (1972) ""The Spy at Tory Hole"" (1975) ""A Long Look Back"" (1983, self-published, written for her grand children) Elizabeth Hoffman Honness Elizabeth Hoffman Honness McKaughan (June 29, 1904 – 2003), better known as Elizabeth Honness, was an American author, poet, and writer. Honness authored children's books in the mystery genre. During her career, she published 21 books between 1936 and 1983. Researching archeology for her novels, Honness traveled throughout Italy, Guatemala, and Mexico. She studied the Greco-Roman, Mayan, Etruscan, Nuragic, and Aztec cultures. Honness was born to George Gill Honness and Mary Van Syckle Leigh in"
"""Tatler"", ""The Spectator"", ""Thumbscrew"", ""The Paris Review"", ""First Pressings"", ""The London Magazine"", ""The Times"", ""The Guardian"", and ""The Daily Telegraph"" among others. Frieda Hughes Frieda Rebecca Hughes (born 1 April 1960) is an English poet and painter. She has published seven children's books and four poetry collections and has had many exhibitions. Hughes is the daughter of poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. Her mother was a novelist and poet and her father was the British poet laureate from 1984 until his death in 1998. Her mother died by suicide when Frieda was almost three; her father died of a"
"of biographer Gladys Storey for her book ""Dickens and Daughter"", in the process revealing Dickens's affair with the actress Ellen Ternan. Kate Perugini Catherine Elizabeth Macready Perugini (""née"" Dickens; 29 October 1839 – 9 May 1929) was an English painter of the Victorian era and the daughter of Charles Dickens. Born Catherine Dickens and nicknamed Kate or Katey, she was Charles Dickens' youngest surviving daughter, and according to her siblings her father's favourite child; he named her after his friend William Charles Macready. As a girl, she also bore the nickname ""Lucifer Box"" for her hot temper. She travelled widely"
"Nina Riggs Nina Ellen Riggs (March 29, 1977 – February 26, 2017) was an American writer and poet. Her best known work is her memoir, ""The Bright Hour"", detailing her journey as a mother with incurable breast cancer. It was published shortly after her death. The book received critical acclaim. Riggs also contributed an article to ""New York Times"" series Modern Love. Riggs was born in San Francisco, California. She was the great-great-great granddaughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and educated at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she received a bachelor's degree in creative writing, and UNC at"
"Lucy Johnston Sypher Lucy Johnston Sypher (August 6, 1907 – December 1990) wrote a series of four children's books based loosely on her childhood in the small prairie town of Wales, North Dakota: ""The Edge of Nowhere"" (1972), ""Cousins and Circuses"" (1974), ""The Spell of the Northern Lights"" (1975), and ""The Turnabout Year"" (1976). The books describe the author's life early in Wales, as the daughter of George Henry (known as Harry), the town banker, and Caroline, a church organist and music teacher from a cultured, well-educated, big-city family. In the books, eleven-year-old Lucy attends a small country school and"
"Lucy Maud Montgomery established the cordial soda as the favorite beverage of Anne, who declares: ""I just love bright red drinks!"" As one of the most familiar characters in Canadian literature, ""Anne of Green Gables"" has been parodied by several Canadian comedy troupes, including CODCO (""Anne of Green Gut"") and The Frantics (""Fran of the Fundy""). Anne of Green Gables Anne of Green Gables is a 1908 novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery (published as L. M. Montgomery). Written for all ages, it has been considered a classic children's novel since the mid-twentieth century. Set in the late 19th"
"The Green Child The Green Child is the only completed novel by the English anarchist poet and critic Herbert Read. Written in 1934 and first published by Heinemann in 1935, the story is based on the 12th-century legend of two green children who mysteriously appeared in the English village of Woolpit, speaking an apparently unknown language. Read described the legend in his ""English Prose Style"", published in 1931, as ""the norm to which all types of fantasy should conform"". Each of the novel's three parts ends with the apparent death of the story's protagonist, President Olivero, dictator of the fictional"
"judgement, she gauged just how much to present to the 8-12’s who are Miss Pickerell's audience. A clear picture in bald outline, rather than a mass of confusing and discouraging detail, is most apt to appeal to and instruct that active age group. Ellen MacGregor Ellen MacGregor (May 15, 1906 – March 29, 1954) was an American children's writer. She is known best for the Miss Pickerell series of children's novels. She was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to George Malcolm MacGregor and Charlotte Genevieve Noble MacGregor. and was educated in schools in Garfield and Kent, Washington. She attended the University"
"Elizabeth Goudge Elizabeth de Beauchamp Goudge FRSL (24 April 1900 – 1 April 1984) was a British author of novels, short stories and children's books as Elizabeth Goudge. She won the Carnegie Medal for British children's books in 1946 for ""The Little White Horse"". She was a best-selling author in both the UK and the US from the 1930s to the 1970s. Goudge gained renewed attention decades later. In 1993 one of her books was plagiarised by Indrani Aikath-Gyaltsen; the ""new"" novel set in India garnered rave reviews in both ""The New York Times"" and ""The Washington Post"" before its"
"age of 100 at her home in Sykesville, Maryland, following a fall. Nan Agle Nan Hayden Agle (April 13, 1905 – February 14, 2006) was an American author of children's books. Anna Bradford Hayden Agle was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to Charles Swett Hayden and Emily Spencer Hayden. She was a granddaughter of the chief editorial writer for the ""Baltimore Sun"", Edward Spencer. She married Harold H. Cecil in 1925 and married John Agle in 1947. She was educated at Goucher College and the Maryland Institute of Art. Nan was an art teacher at Friends School of Baltimore and at"