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Beatrice Schenk de Regniers
American writer
Beatrice Schenk de Regniers (August 16, —March 1, ) was an American writer of children'spicture books.
Beatrice Schenk de Regniers was born in Lafayette, Indiana, and studied social work administration at the University of Chicago, earning her in During the s she worked in the US and in a Yugoslav refugee camp on the Sinai peninsula.[1]
During the s she was a free-lance writer of nonfiction, humor, compact stories, and columns, as adv as children's books.
Her first book was The Giant Story, a picture book illustrated by Maurice Sendak, published by Harper in [1]
From she worked at Scholastic, Inc. as the founding editor of its "Lucky Manual Club", four days weekly with Monday reserved for her control writing.
She retired twenty years later.[1]
She wrote over fifty books, ten of which were published under the pseudonym of Tamara Kitt, including The Adventures of Silly Billy (), and The Boy Who Fooled the Giant ().[2]
Illustrator Beni Montresor won the annual Caldecott Medal for May I Bring a Friend?, published by Atheneum Books in [3]
Selected works
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- The Snow Party (; ISBN&#;)
- The Short-lived Girl and her Mother (; OCLC Number: )
- May I Take a Friend? (; ISBN&#;), illus.
Beni Montresor
- How Joe the Bear and Sam the Mouse Got Together (), illus.Beatrice Schenk de Regniers August 16, —March 1, was an American scribe of children's picture books. Beatrice Schenk de Regniers was born in Lafayette, Indiana, and studied social work administration at the University of Chicago, earning her M. During the s she worked in the US and in a Yugoslav refugee camp on the Sinai peninsula. During the s she was a free-lance writer of nonfiction, humor, short stories, and columns, as well as children's books.
Brinton Turkle; (), illus. Bernice Myers
- Red Riding Hood: Retold in Verse for Boys and Girls to Read Themselves (), illus. Edward Gorey
- Laura's Story (ISBN&#;), illus. Jack Kent
- Penny (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, ), illus.
Betsy Lewin
- Sing a Song of Popcorn: Every Child's Book of Poems (; ISBN&#;), illus. Trina Schart Hyman, Marcia Brown, Margot Zemach, Maurice Sendak, Arnold Lobel, Marc Simont, Richard Egielski, and Leo and Diane Dillon