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2007 Botanical artist Anne Ophelia Dowden brought the natural world to children through her books, which includeThe Blossom on the Bough: A Book of Trees and The Clover and the Bee: A Book of Pollination (both Harper). She died on January 4, 2007, in Boulder, Colorado, at the age of ninety-nine. Harry Horse, a political cartoonist and children's author known for his books The Last Polar Bears (Viking) and Little Rabbit Goes to School (Peachtree), died on January 10, 2007, on the Shetland island of Burra. He was forty-six. Carol Otis Hurst, lifelong storyteller and educator, died on the weekend of January 20, 2007, at her home in Westfield, Massachusetts. Among her stories for children were the historical novels Through the Lock and In Plain Sight (both Lorraine/Houghton). She received a 2001 Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor award for nonfiction for Rocks in His Head (Greenwillow), illustrated by James Stevenson. Ms. Hurst was seventy-three. Joseph Low, longtime New Yorker cover artist and winner of a Caldecott Honor for his Twice Mice (McElderry), died on February 12, 2007. He was ninety-five. Janet McDonald died on April 11, 2007, in Paris at the age of fifty-three. Ms. McDonald was the author of Chill Wind (winner of the Coretta Scott King—John Steptoe New Talent Award), Brother Hood, and Harlem Hustle (all Farrar), as well as other novels. Her article, "Up the Down Staircase: Where Snoop and Shakespeare Meet," was published in the November/December 2005 issue of The Horn Book Magazine. Lloyd Alexander, author of over forty books for children, including the Chronicles of Prydain, and winnerof the 1969 Newbery Medal for The High King, died on May 17, 2007, at his home in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania. He was eighty-three. Clyde Robert Bulla, who published the first of his sixty children's books in 1946, died on May 23, 2007. He was ninety-three. Bulla helped generations of children take their first steps toward independent reading with such books as Daniel's Duck (Harper), Shoeshine Girl (Crowell), and The Chalk Box Kid (Random). "I write. I travel. I come home to write again," he once explained. The longtime resident of Los Angeles grew up in small-town Missouri and returned there for the last years of his life. Influenced by the comics he read growing up, Douglas Hill created science fiction that transported young readers to fantastical worlds. During the course of his career, he penned close to seventy children's books, including the Las Legionary series. Though born in Canada, Hill lived and worked in England and died in London on June 21, 2007. He was seventy-two.
2006 Jan Mark, who won England’s Carnegie Medal in 1977 for her first book, Thunder and Lightnings, and again in 1984 for Handles, died on January 15, 2006, in Oxford. She was 62 years old. Tana Hoban, the creator of stylish photographic concept books for the very young, including 1, 2 3 (Greenwillow), a Boston Globe–Horn Book Award Special Citation winner in 1985, died in Paris on January 27, 2006. She was 88. Her brother, writer Russell Hoban, survives her. Martha Alexander, an illustrator and author of nearly fifty children’s books (three of which are set to be reissued by Charlesbridge in coming months), died on January 31, 2006. She was 85. Rolf Myller, an architect whose children's book, How Big is a Foot? (Dell), has been playfully preaching the virtues of standard measurements since 1962, died in New York City on March 23, 2006. He was sevety-nine. Robert McClung, author of The Amazing Egg, Sea Star, and numerous other books, died June 24, 2006, in Northampton, Massachusetts. He was eighty-nine. Elizabeth Staples Halbrooks, whose distinguished career at the Horn Book began with a chance encounter at a Boston supermarket, died on July 28, 2006. She oversaw the office and directed the company’s marketing and advertising efforts from 1963 until 1982, then served on our board of directors until 1990. In the September/October 1999 Horn Book Magazine, she remembered her tenure at the Horn Book. Known for capturing the teen experience long before the term "young adult fiction" came into popular use, Maureen Daly, author of Seventeenth Summer (Simon), died on September 25, 2006, in Palm Desert, California. She was eighty-five. Theodore Taylor, who authored The Cay (Doubleday) and over fifty other books for children and young adults, died on October 26, 2006. He was eighty-five. Hilda van Stockum, author and illustrator of over twenty books for children, including the 1935 Newbery Honor Book A Day on Skates: The Story of a Dutch Picnic (Harper), died on November 1, 2006, in Berkhamsted, United Kingdom. Benny Andrews, a painter whose style drew on Southern folk art, died on November 10, 2006, in Brooklyn, New York. He illustrated numerous children's books, including Pictures for Miss Josie by Sandra Belton (Harper) and I Am the Darker Brother: An Anthology of Modern Poems by African Americans (Simon). He was seventy-five. Bebe Moore Campbell, author of Stompin' at the Savoy (Philomel) and Sometimes My Mommy Gets Angry (Putnam), as well as a number of novels for adults, died on November 27, 2006, in Los Angeles. She was fifty-six. Mary Stolz, one of the earliest young adult novelists and the author of the Newbery Honor Books Belling the Tiger and The Noonday Friends (both Harper), died on December 15, 2006. She was eighty-six. Philippa Pearce, whose Tom's Midnight Garden (Harper) is one of England's most celebrated novels for children, died on December 21, 2006. She was eighty-six.
2005 Judith Rosenfeld, a children’s book specialist, former librarian, and contributor to several journals, including The Horn Book Magazine, died on January 13, 2005. Max Velthuijs, winner of the Hans Christian Andersen Medal for Illustration, died at eighty-one on January 25, 2005, in the Netherlands. He wrote and illustrated more than twenty books, many of them starring Frog, renowned for his red-and-white striped shorts and trusting nature. Ted Rand died at his home on Mercer Island, Washington, on March 12, 2005. He was eighty-nine. An artist who came to children’s books relatively late in life, he illustrated scores of titles, including the forthcoming A Pen Pal for Max (Holt) by his wife, Gloria Rand. Best known for her Witch World series, fantasy and science-fiction writer Andre (Alice Mary) Norton died on March 17, 2005, in Tennessee. She was ninety-three. Charlotte Huck, a professor who transformed the study of children’s literature with her courses at Ohio State University and her popular textbook, Children’s Literature in the Classroom, died at her home in Redlands, California, on April 7, 2005. She was eighty-two. A member of the Reading Hall of Fame, past president of the National Council of Teachers of English, and winner of several teaching awards, she retired from academia in 1986 and began to write children’s books. They include Princess Furball and The Black Bull of Norroway (both Greenwillow). Faith McNulty, the author of How to Dig a Hole to the Other Side of the World (HarperCollins) and other children’s books on science and nature, died on April 10, 2005, at the age of eighty-six. A writer for The New Yorker, she was also the author of the adult bestseller The Burning Bed. James Houston, a writer, artist, and three-time winner of the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children Award, died on April 17, 2005. He was eighty-three. James (Jim) Haskins, whose acclaimed biographies and histories explored the African-American experience, died on July 6, 2005. A professor of children's literature at the University of Florida at Gainesville, he was 63 . Toni Trent Parker, an author and a prominent advocate of multicultural children's literature, died on September 15, 2005. She was 58. Helen Cresswell, the award-winning author of the Bagthorpe Saga books, The Piemakers, The Night Watchman, and many others, died of cancer on September 26, 2005. She was 71. Stan Berenstain, who co-created the Berenstain Bears with his wife, Jan, died in Pennsylvania on November 12, 2005, at the age of 82. The Berenstains began collaborating as Philadelphia art students in the 1940s and later worked with Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss) to develop their bestselling easy-to-read series. John Langstaff, the pioneering musician and teacher whose books included Frog Went A-Courtin’ (Harcourt), the 1955 Caldecott winner illustrated by Feodor Rojankovsky, died on December 13, 2005, at the age of 84. Here in the Boston area he was particularly well-known as the founder of the Christmas Revels, an eclectic holiday production that began in Cambridge and is now performed in eight other cities. Margaret Hodges, professor emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh's library school and the author of Saint George and the Dragon, the 1985 Caldecott winner illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman, died on December 13, 2005, at the age of 94. Her book about Moses, with drawings by Barry Moser, will be published in 2006.
2004 Joan Aiken, author of scores of books but perhaps best known for her novel The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (Delacorte), died in England on January 4, 2004, at the age of seventy-nine. The daughter of poet Conrad Aiken, she wrote for children as well as adults and was accomplished in seemingly all genres: fantasy, poetry, drama, picture book, short story, and mystery. Thomas B. Allen, an illustrator whose picture books included Judith Hendershot’s In Coal Country (Knopf), a Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor Book, died on November 8, 2004, in Sarasota, Florida. He was seventy-six. Music fans also knew him for his celebrated depictions of jazz, country, and bluegrass performers. Trina Schart Hyman died on November 19, 2004, at the age of 65. She won the 1985 Caldecott Medal for Saint George and the Dragon (Little, Brown) by Margaret Hodges and was a three-time recipient of Caldecott Honors. Margaret N. Coughlan, whose modest title — children’s book specialist at the Children’s Literature Center at the Library of Congress — belied her impressive contributions to the field, died March 14, 2004, in Washington DC. She was seventy-eight. Paula Danziger died on July 8, 2004, in New York at the age of fifty-nine. Her first book, The Cat Ate My Gymsuit (Delacorte), published to enormous success in 1974, is still in print, as are every one of her other titles, more than thirty all together. Ruth Heller, an illustrator and writer of intricately designed concept books for young children, and coloring and design books for all ages, died on July 1, 2004. She was eighty-one. Syd Hoff, the cartoonist and writer best known for his beginning reader Danny and the Dinosaur (HarperCollins), died on May 12, 2004. He was ninety-one. Francess Lantz, author of more than thirty books, including Stepsister from Planet Weird (Random) and Fade Far Away (HarperCollins), died on November 22, 2004. She was fifty-two. Nancy Larrick, an anthologist of dozens of poetry collections, author of the influential A Parent’s Guide to Children’s Reading, editor, educator, and an indefatigable promoter of children's literature, died in Winchester, Virginia, on November 14, 2004. She was ninety-three. Bill Martin Jr, who was largely a nonreader as child and among America's most popular children's book writers as an adult, died at his home in Commerce, Texas, on August 11, 2004, at the age of eighty-eight. His books included Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? (Holt), one of several collaborations with Eric Carle, and Chicka Chicka Boom Boom (Simon), cowritten with John Archambault and illustrated by Lois Ehlert. Martin Matje, the French-born artist best known for illustrating The Ink Drinker (Delacorte) by Éric Sanvoisin and its three sequels, died on September 13, 2004, at the age of forty-two. Lillian Moore, a poet, picture book author, children’s book editor, and one of the founders of the Council on Interracial Books for Children, died on July 20, 2004. She was ninety-five years old. Three-time Edgar Allan Poe Award–winner Willo Davis Roberts died on November 19, 2004. She was seventy-six years old. Her most recent book, Blood on His Hands (Atheneum), was published in July 2004. Elizabeth Shub, an editor, translator, and writer, died at her home in New York City on June 18, 2004. She was eighty-nine. Senior editor at Greenwillow until her 1996 retirement, she translated several books by Isaac Bashevis Singer from the Yiddish, notably Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories (HarperCollins). Her own books included the novel The White Stallion (Greenwillow). Storyteller and writer Jackie Torrence died on November 30, 2004, at the age of sixty. Her books included Jackie Tales (August House). Steven Woolman, an innovative Australian artist best known for his work on The Watertower (Era Publications), died on April 30, 2004. He was thirty-four.
2003 Vivien Alcock, a British writer best known for her brooding mysteries and supernatural fantasies, died in London, England, on October 11, 2003. The widow of novelist Leon Garfield, Alcock was seventy-nine. Jeff Brown, best known as the author of Flat Stanley and its sequels, died on December 3, 2003, in New York City. He was seventy-seven. Meredith Charpentier, a distinguished book editor who worked at Frederick Warne, Four Winds, and Morrow, and who retired last year from HarperCollins Children's Books, died on September 21, 2003. She was fifty-eight. Cécile de Brunhoff, who invented a little elephant character that her husband, Jean de Brunhoff, later called Babar, died in Paris on April 6, 2003. She was ninety-nine years old. Tom Feelings, the illustrator of two Caldecott Honor Books, Moja Means One (Dial) and Jambo Means Hello (Dial), died on August 25, 2003, in Mexico, where he was receiving medical treatment. A one-time art professor at the University of South Carolina, Mr. Feelings spent twenty years on The Middle Passage (Dial), his epic depiction of the African slave trade. He was seventy years old. Monica Hughes, an English-born writer who immigrated to Canada as a young woman and won acclaim for her young adult science fiction, died in Edmonton, Alberta, on March 7, 2003. She was seventy-seven years old. Nola Langner Malone, illustrator of more than thirty books, including Earrings! (Atheneum) by Judith Viorst, died on October 28, 2003, at the age of seventy-three. Marilyn Marlow, a literary agent with a sharp eye and special love for young adult writers, died at the age of seventy-five on August 25, 2003. Her clients included S. E. Hinton, who was still a teenager in Tulsa when Ms. Marlow took her on, and Robert Cormier. Robert McCloskey, the two-time Caldecott Medalist and the creator of Make Way for Ducklings, Blueberries for Sal, One Morning in Maine, and Homer Price, died on June 30, 2003, in Deer Isle, Maine. He was eighty-eight. William C. Morris, the vice president and director of library promotion at HarperCollins Publishers, died on September 29, 2003, at his home in Manhattan. He was seventy-four years old. Joan Lowery Nixon, the author of more than 100 books and the only four-time winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Juvenile Mystery, died on June 28, 2003, in Houston. She was seventy-six. William Steig, who won a Caldecott Medal for Sylvester and the Magic Pebble (Simon), a Caldecott Honor for The Amazing Bone (Farrar), and a pair of Newbery Honors for Abel's Island and Doctor De Soto (both Farrar), died on October 3, 2003. He was ninety-five. Harry C. Stubbs, who wrote the “Views on Science Books” column in the Horn Book Magazine from 1967 through 1985, died on October 29, 2003, at the age of eighty-one. Under his pen name, Hal Clement, he wrote more than a dozen science fiction novels for adults. Martha Weston, an author and illustrator of more than sixty books for children, died on September 4, 2003, at her home in Fairfax, California. She was fifty-six years old. Judy Wilson, a publishing executive who ran Macmillan’s Children’s Book Group and later Orchard Books, died on March 14, 2003, in New York City. She was 63 years old. Paul Zindel, whose young adult novels helped define the genre, died of cancer in New York City on March 27, 2003. He was 66 years old. A former high school chemistry teacher on his native Staten Island, he came to fame first as a playwright, winning the 1971 Pulitzer Prize in drama for The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds. In 2002, he won the Margaret A. Edwards Award for the body of his work.
2002 Mildred Benson, the ghost writer of many of the original Nancy Drew mysteries, died in Toledo, Ohio, on May 28, 2002. She was ninety-six. Ms. Benson worked as a newspaper columnist for the Toledo Blade up until the day of her death. Joan Bodger, whose books include How the Heather Looks (Viking), died on July 4, 2002, at the age of seventy-nine, in Tofino, British Columbia. Writing was just one of her talents. She also served as the first director of New York State’s Head Start program, taught children’s literature at the Bank Street Graduate School of Education, directed children’s services at the State Library of Missouri (where she was dismissed in the late 1960s for publicly supporting an underground newspaper), worked as an editor at Pantheon and Knopf, and helped found the Storytellers School of Toronto. Franklyn M. Branley, co-founder of the Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out (HarperCollins) series of science books and the author of more than 140 books, died on May 5, 2002, in Brunswick, Maine. He was eighty-six. A lifelong advocate for science education, Dr. Branley also served as the chairman of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Judy Delton, author of more than 200 books, including Kitty in the Middle, the first of several novels drawn from her early years, and Backyard Angel, which began a series inspired by the childhood of her own children, died in St. Paul, Minnesota, in January, 2002. She was seventy years old. Carol Fenner, whose Yolonda’s Genius (McElderry) was a 1996 Newbery Honor Book, died on February 16, 2002, in Battle Creek, Michigan. She also wrote Randall’s Wall and The King of Dragons (both McElderry) and was an illustrator earlier in her career. Ms. Fenner was seventy-two. Aileen Fisher, whose first book for children, The Coffee-Pot Face, a poetry collection published in 1933, was followed by more than 100 other titles, died at her home in Boulder, Colorado, on December 2, 2002. She was ninety-six years old. Ms. Fisher was awarded the National Council of Teachers of English Award for excellence in poetry for children in 1978. Virginia Hamilton, winner of the Newbery award, the National Book Award, the Hans Christian Anderson award, the Laura Ingalls Wilder award, and a three-time Boston Globe–Horn Book medalist, died on February 19, 2002, in Dayton, Ohio. She was sixty-five. Isabelle Holland died in New York City on February 9, 2002. She was eighty-one. Among her best known novels for young adults were Of Love and Death and Other Journeys and The Man without a Face, which broke ground in 1972 with its intimation of homosexuality. June Jordan died on June 14, 2002, at her home in Berkeley, California. She was sixty-five years old. Best known as a poet, she was also a political activist and children’s book writer whose books included His Own Where— (Crowell), a finalist for the National Book Award. Astrid Lindgren, author of the Pippi Longstocking books, died in her home in Stockholm, Sweden, on January 28, 2002. She was 94. The winner of the 1958 Hans Christian Andersen Medal, she was a revered cultural figure in her home country and read by generations of children worldwide. Bill Peet died on May 11, 2002, at his home in Studio City, California. He was eighty-seven years old. The author-illustrator of dozens of beloved picture books, including Chester the Worldly Pig and Randy’s Dandy Lions (both Houghton), he devoted himself to children’s books after a long, successful, and often contentious career at the Disney Studios. In Bill Peet: An Autobiography (Houghton), a Caldecott Honor in 1989, he reports that evil Captain Hook in Peter Pan was drawn with Walt Disney in mind. Glen Rounds, the prolific author and artist of tall tales and realistic stories set on the plains and in North Carolina, died on September 27, 2002, in Pinehurst, North Carolina. He was ninety-six years old. His first book, Ol’ Paul, the Mighty Logger (Holiday) was published in 1936 and is still in print; his last book, Beaver (Holiday), appeared in 1999. Esphyr Slobodkina, whose Caps for Sale (HarperCollins) has emboldened mischievous children since 1938, died on July 21, 2002. She was ninety-three. In addition to writing and illustrating children’s books, several in collaboration with her friend Margaret Wise Brown, Ms. Slobodkina was a prominent abstract artist. Her work is represented in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Corcoran Gallery, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Doris Buchanan Smith, whose novels included A Taste of Blackberries (HarperCollins), died on August 8, 2002. She was sixty-eight. Zena Sutherland died in Chicago on June 12, 2002, at the age of eighty-six. Long a preeminent reviewer and professor of children’s literature, she wrote five editions of the classic textbook Children and Books, edited The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books, and taught at the University of Chicago’s Library School. Joanne S. Williamson died at her home in Kennebunkport, Maine on July 6, 2002 at the age of seventy-seven. She wrote several historical novels for young adults in the 1950s and 1960s, including The Glorious Conspiracy and To Dream Upon a Crown (both Knopf). David Wisniewski, whose Golem (Clarion) won the 1997 Caldecott Medal, died on September 11, 2002, near his home in suburban Washington, D.C. He was forty-nine. A professional circus clown who went on to become a shadow puppeteer, Mr. Wisniewski was a largely self-taught artist and a master at the exacting technique of cut-paper and collage illustration. His earliest books were based on epic legends and folklore. His most recent ones, including the Fall 2002 publications Halloweenies (HarperCollins) and Sumo Mouse (Chronicle), are more lighthearted. Maia Wojciechowska, whose Shadow of a Bull (Atheneum) won the 1965 Newbery Medal, died on June 13, 2002. She was seventy-four.
2001 Beni Montresor, who made his mark as an illustrator of children’s books and stage designer for opera, died on October 11, 2001, at his home in Verona, Italy. He was 75. Mr. Montresor won the Caldecott Medal in 1965 for May I Bring a Friend? by Beatrice Schenk de Regniers. His most recent book, Hansel and Gretel, is reviewed in the November/December 2001 issue of The Horn Book Magazine. Beatrice Schenk de Regniers, author of What Can You Do with a Shoe? and the 1964 Caldecott-winning May I Bring a Friend?, died on March 1, 2000. She was eighty-six years old. Doris Dillon, a California elementary school teacher who was nationally recognized for her literacy efforts, died in her San Jose home on August 21, 2001, after a long battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). In April 2001, Columbia University’s Teacher College named its advanced teacher training center in her honor. Ms. Dillon was nearly 58 at the time of her death. Elizabeth Cavanna Harrison, who used her maiden name, Betty Cavanna, on most of her books but also wrote as Betsy Allen and Elizabeth Headley, died on August 13, 2001, at her home in France. Known for her light romances for teenagers, among them Going on Sixteen, she also wrote nonfiction and mysteries. Ms. Harrison was 92. Jamake Highwater died on June 3, 2001, at his home in Los Angeles His books included Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey, a 1978 Newbery Honor Book and Boston Globe–Horn Book Award winner, and the Ghost Horse quartet: Legend Days, The Ceremony of Innocence, I Wear the Morning Star, and Kill Hole. He appeared on several PBS documentaries, including one based on his book for adults, The Primal Mind: Vision and Reality in Indian America. Mr. Highwater’s birth date was unknown, but he was believed to be 59 years old at time of his death. Irene Hunt, whose first book, Across Five Aprils, was a Newbery Honor Book in 1965, and whose second, Up a Road Slowly, won the 1967 Newbery Medal, died in Champaign, Illinois, on May 18, 2001, her ninety-ninth birthday. Tove Jansson, winner of the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1966, died on June 27, 2001, at the age eighty-six. The Finnish artist, author, and illustrator was best known for her books about the Moomins, which were translated into dozens of languages and adapted for film, opera, radio, and comic strips. Farrar was her U.S. publisher. Robert Kraus, author, cartoonist, and founder of Windmill Books, died of congestive heart failure on August 7, 2001. He was 76. Among his many books was Leo the Late Bloomer (HarperCollins), illustrated by Jose Aruego. At Windmill Books, which was started in 1965 and later absorbed by Simon & Schuster, he published many fellow New Yorker contributors, including William Steig and Charles Addams. John Knowles, who was best known for his first novel, A Separate Peace, died on November 29, 2001, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He was 75. Fred Marcellino, whose Puss in Boots (Farrar) was a 1991 Caldecott Honor Book, died of colon cancer in his New York City home on July 12, 2001. He was 61. Mr. Marcellino came to children’s books after an equally distinguished career as an illustrator and designer of book jackets. Elizabeth Yates died on July 29, 2001, in Concord, New Hampshire. She was 95. Among her more than 50 books were the 1951 Newbery Medal winner, Amos Fortune, Free Man (Dutton), and several biographies about notably strong-willed and principled individuals.
2000 Verna Aardema, author of the 1976 Caldecott Medal winner, Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears: An African Tale, illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon, died May 11, 2000, in Fort Myers, Florida. She was 88 years old. Leonard Baskin, sculptor, painter, book-maker, and printmaker, died June 3, 2000, at the age of seventy-seven. Awarded the Caldecott Medal in 1974 for his book Hosie’s Alphabet, Baskin also created sculptures for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial and the Woodrow Wilson Memorial in Washington, DC, as well as the Holocaust Memorial in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Gwendolyn Brooks, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1950 and poet laureate of Illinois, died December 3, 2000, at her home in Chicago. She was eighty-three years old. Barbara Cooney, author and illustrator of more than 100 books for children, died in Portland, Maine, on March 10, 2000, at the age of eighty-three. She was twice awarded Caldecott medals, first in 1959 for her illustrations for Chaucer’s Chanticleer and the Fox and then in 1980 for Ox-Cart Man, written by Donald Hall. Her Miss Rumphius received the American Book Award and inspired the creation of the Maine Library Association’s Lupine Award. Robert Cormier, author of The Chocolate War, I Am the Cheese, and many other ground-breaking works for young adults, died on November 2, 2000, in Leominster, Massachusetts. He was seventy-five years old. Author, adapter, and translator Mirra Ginsburg, known for her retellings of Russian and Eastern European folktales, such as The Two Greedy Bears, Good Morning, Chick, and Clay Boy, died on December 26, 2000. She was 91 years old. Editor Jean Karl, founder of Atheneum Books for Young Readers, died on March 30, 2000, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Jean Karl published such award-winning titles as From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, Dicey’s Song, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, and A Wizard of Earthsea. Eloise Jarvis McGraw died November 30, 2000, at the age of eighty-four. Three-time Newbery Honor winner for Moccasin Trail (1952), The Golden Goblet (1962) and The Moorchild (1997), she was also known for co-authoring Merry Go Round in Oz. |
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