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Hughes was born in West Kirby, [11] then in the county of Cheshire (now in Merseyside), on 16 July 1927. [12] [13] The daughter of Thomas James Hughes, owner of the Liverpool-based store chain T. J. Hughes and his wife Kathleen (née Dowling), she grew up in West Kirby on the Wirral. [14]
Betsy Byars (née Cromer; August 7, 1928 – February 26, 2020) was an American author of children's books.Her novel Summer of the Swans won the 1971 Newbery Medal. [1] She has also received a National Book Award for Young People's Literature for The Night Swimmers (1980) [2] and an Edgar Award for Wanted...
The death of an animal or inanimate object such as a plant made up 2% of the deaths in literature for children ages three to eight written in the 1970s and 1980s. [3] In Hemery's Not Just a Fish , a young girl's fish dies and the girl deals with both her grief and the sympathy or disregard of others.
Thea Beckman (1923–2004) – Crusade in Jeans, Children of Mother Earth series; Frank Beddor (born 1958) – The Looking Glass Wars series; John Bellairs (1938–1991) – The House with a Clock in Its Walls; Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953) – Cautionary Tales for Children, The Bad Child's Book of Beasts, More Beasts for Worse Children
Ellen Raskin (March 13, 1928 – August 8, 1984) was an American children's writer and illustrator. She won the 1979 Newbery Medal for The Westing Game, a mystery novel, and another children's mystery, Figgs & Phantoms, was a Newbery Honor Book in 1975.
“Of all the children in the world who wish they had Atticus as their father, I got to grow up with him. ... but he was very much like the dad in the book as a person as well as a father ...
Jacques grew up in Kirkdale near to the Liverpool Docks. [1] He was known by his middle name, Brian, because his father and younger brother were also named James. His father loved literature and read his boys adventure stories by Daniel Defoe , Sir Thomas Mallory , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , Robert Louis Stevenson , and Edgar Rice Burroughs , but ...
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