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In 1957, she suggested that Scholastic make its books more accessible to children by offering low-cost mail-order paperbacks. This was a rather novel concept at the time. This led to her founding and becoming the first editor for Scholastic's Arrow Book Club in 1957. The Arrow Book Club targeted students in fourth through sixth grade.
David Magie Cory (October 26, 1872 – July 4, 1966) was a writer of more than fifty books for young children. He was best known for his Jack Rabbit stories, which were syndicated in newspapers for forty years.
In 2017 Smith was appointed to the History News Network Board. In 2018, Smith was elected to the board of Restless Books. Smith has been a board member of the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) since 2017 and a board member of the Supreme Court Historical Society and the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins Medicine since 2022.
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Umbrella is a short story where a little girl is the principal character. Her name is Momo, which means "peach" in Japanese, and she was born in New York. [2] Momo carries the blue umbrella and wears the rubber boots that she was given on her third birthday. She asks her mother every day to use her umbrella.
The WH Smith Literary Award was an award founded in 1959 by British high street retailer W H Smith to "encourage and bring international esteem to authors of the British Commonwealth". Originally open to all residents of the UK , the Commonwealth and Ireland , it later admitted foreign works in translation and works by US authors.
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Tim Mackintosh-Smith (born 17 July 1961) is a British, Yemen-based, Oxford-educated Arabist, writer, traveller and lecturer. He has written numerous books on the Middle East, won several awards and has presented a major BBC television series.