Mary Treadgold
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| Mary Treadgold | |
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| Born | London, U.K. |
| Occupation | Novelist Publisher |
| Genres | Children's fiction |
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Mary Treadgold is a British author who won the Carnegie Medal in 1941 for her children's book We Couldn't Leave Dinah.
Treadgold attended St Paul's Girls School and Bedford College, London. She was a publisher by trade working for the firm of Raphael Tuck and later at Heinemann's as their first Children's Editor.[1]
In her position Treadgold frequently read stories about ponies and pony clubs. She was dismayed by how subpar most of these were and decided to write her own while hiding out in her air raid shelter during the thick of World War II. Thus We Couldn't Leave Dinah was written.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ a b Mary Treadgold: We Couldn't Leave Dinah (1941). The CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenway Living Archive (1941). Retrieved on 2007-12-09.
