Elizabeth Coatsworth

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Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (1893-1986) was an American author of children's fiction and poetry. Her novel The Cat Who Went to Heaven won the 1931 Newbery Medal.

Born May 31, 1893, in Buffalo, New York, Coatsworth graduated from Vassar College in 1915 and received a Master of Arts from Columbia University in 1916. [1] She was an international traveler, which later influenced her writing.[2] Her first publications were poems in magazines, and her first book published was Fox Footprints (1923). In 1929, she married writer Henry Beston, with whom she had two children. She died at her home in Nobleboro, Maine, August 31, 1986.[3]

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[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Children's Literature Research Collections website
  2. ^ Old Children's Books biography
  3. ^ University of Southern Mississippi de Grummond Collection website

[edit] Works

  • 1923 Fox Footprints
  • 1927 The Cat and the Captain
  • 1930 The Cat Who Went To Heaven
  • 1932 Cricket and the Emperor's Son
  • 1936 Sword of the Wilderness
  • 1940 The Littlest House
  • 1942 Houseboat Summer
  • 1944 Trudy and the Tree House
  • 1949 Little Haymakers
  • 1951 Dollar for Luck
  • 1952 Boston Bells
  • 1953 Aunt Flora
  • 1953 Giant Golden Book of Cat Stories
  • 1953 Giant Golden Book of Dog Stories
  • 1953 Last Fort: A Story of the French Voyageurs
  • 1953 Old Whirlwind: A Story of Davy Crockett
  • 1954 Sod House
  • 1955 Cherry Ann and the Dragon Horse
  • 1956 The Peddler's Cart
  • 1957 Giant Golden Book of Dogs, Cats, and Horses: 61 Stories and Poems
  • 1958 The Cave
  • 1958 The Dog from Nowhere
  • 1958 Down Tumbledown Mountain
  • 1958 You Say You Saw a Camel?
  • 1960 Children Came Running
  • 1960 Desert Dan
  • 1960 Indian Encounters: An Anthology of Stories and Poems
  • 1960 Lonely Maria, 1960
  • 1961 Noble Doll
  • 1962 Ronnie and the Chief's Son
  • 1963 Jock's Island
  • 1963 Runaway Home
  • 1964 Jon the Unlucky
  • 1965 The Place
  • 1966 Fox Friend
  • 1966 Kite and the Wind
  • 1966 Sparrow Bush: Rhymes
  • 1967 Bess and the Sphinx
  • 1967 Hand of Apollo
  • 1967 Troll Weather
  • 1969 The Enchanted
  • 1968 American Adventures
  • 1968 Bob Bodden and the Good Ship "Rover"
  • 1968 Lighthouse Island
  • 1968 Down Half The World
  • 1968 Lucky Ones: Five Journeys Toward a Home
  • 1969 George and Red
  • 1969 Indian Mound Farm
  • 1969 They Walk in the Night
  • 1970 Bob Bodden and the Seagoing Farm
  • 1970 Grandmother Cat and the Hermit
  • 1971 Daniel Webster's Horses
  • 1971 Snow Parlor, and Other Bedtime Stories
  • 1971 Under the Green Willow
  • 1972 Good Night
  • 1972 Wanderers
  • 1973 Daisy
  • 1973 Pure Magic
  • 1974 All-of-a-Sudden Susan
  • 1975 Marra's World
  • 1976 Personal Geography: Almost an Autobiography

[edit] The Sally Series

All novels in this series illustrated by Helen Sewell

  • 1934 Away Goes Sally
  • 1939 Five Bushel Farm
  • 1940 The Fair American
  • 1942 The White Horse
  • 1946 The Wonderful Day

[edit] The Incredible Tales

  • 1951 The Enchanted
  • 1953 Silky
  • 1954 Mountain Bride
  • 1958 The White Room
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