Obituaries
William H. Hooks,
the author of more than fifty children's books, including many entries
in the Bank Street Ready-to-Read series, died on March 3, 2008,
in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He was eighty-six.
Phyllis A. Whitney,
winner of the Grand Master Award for lifetime achievement from the
Mystery Writers of America, died on February 8, 2008, in Faber,
Virginia, at the age of 104. The author of books for children
and adults, she was honored with the prestigious Edgar Allan Poe
Award for best children's mystery story for Mystery of
the Haunted Pool and for Mystery of the Hidden Hand
, which also won the Sequoyah Award of Oklahoma.
Elizabeth
S. Watson, a longtime reviewer for The Horn Book
Magazine and a member of the Horn Book, Inc.'s board of directors,
died on October 13, 2007, at the age of sixty-seven. Formerly director
of the Fitchburg Public Library and a past president of the Association
for Library Services to Children/ALA, Liz consistently served as
the voice of practicality and — frequently — reason
at Horn Book meetings. We'll miss her.
Thomas Todd,
publisher emeritus of the Horn Book, Inc., and longtime resident
of Littleton and Gloucester, Massachusetts, died September 9, 2007.
He was eighty-nine.
Madeleine L'Engle
died in Connecticut on September 6, 2007, at the age of eighty-eight.
The author of over sixty books for both young readers and adults,
she was best known for her Austin family series (including the 1980
Newbery Honor Book A Ring of Endless Light) and the 1963
Newbery Award–winning A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels,
lauded by the Horn Book as “[making] unusual demands
on the imagination and consequently [giving] great rewards.”
On the occassion of her winning the 1963 Newbery Award,
we published this
profile of the author by her husband, actor Hugh Franklin.
We also remember her with reviews
of five of her books.
Siobhan Dowd, author
of A Swift Pure Cry (Fickling/Random), winner of the Branford
Boase Award (UK) for the most promising novel by a first-time writer
of a book for young people, and The London Eye Mystery
(forthcoming from Fickling/Random), died on August 21, 2007. She
was forty-seven.
Picture-book illustrator Bruce
Wood, best known for his collaborations with his mother,
Audrey Wood, passed away on July 21, 2007. Wood used three-dimensional
computer modeling to create distinctive illustrations for Alphabet
Adventure, Alphabet Mystery, and Alphabet Rescue,
among other memorable children's titles.
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