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R.I.P. Carol Seeger Kendall, 94, in July (1960 Newbery Honor: "The Gammage Cup")
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Sep 13, 2012, 4:06:09 PM9/13/12
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First half:
"Siggy Kendall was born September 13, 1917. It was the end of World War I; it was the beginning of the Spanish Flu Pandemic; it was a time when the Russian Revolution shook the world. She married Paul Murray Kendall, English Professor, historian and biographer in 1939 on the eve of WWII. Siggy came to observe with the acumen of a writer the major events and developments of the twentieth century.
"When Siggy was a child, the iceman made deliveries to the house. As an adult, she wrote a book on a new device: the home computer. Her life spanned technologies, different ways of living, new visions of what the world was and what it could be.
"Siggy's first books were for adults – The Black Seven (1946) and The Baby Snatcher (1952) – but she realized, after casting a twelve-year-old boy as her detective, that she wanted to write for children. In 1957, she wrote The Other Side of the Tunnel, and in 1960, The Big Splash. Between these, she wrote The Gammage Cup (1959), a Newbery Honor Book and an Ohioana prize winner (published in England as The Minnipins). Twenty-eight years later, this book became a Hanna-Barbera animated film for television and is still in print. The famous editor Margaret McElderry worked with Siggy and offered suggestions that helped lead to the final draft of The Gammage Cup. The sequel, The Whisper of Glocken, was published in 1965. Siggy's final fantasy, The Firelings, was published in 1981 and won a Parents' Choice Award and the 1983 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award....."
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https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/rec.arts.books.childrens/carol$20kendall/rec.arts.books.childrens/tx9OvYczwGs/TH4FDvzS0oYJ
(2007 birthday post - long)
Lenona.
(with photo)
First half:
"Siggy Kendall was born September 13, 1917. It was the end of World War I; it was the beginning of the Spanish Flu Pandemic; it was a time when the Russian Revolution shook the world. She married Paul Murray Kendall, English Professor, historian and biographer in 1939 on the eve of WWII. Siggy came to observe with the acumen of a writer the major events and developments of the twentieth century.
"When Siggy was a child, the iceman made deliveries to the house. As an adult, she wrote a book on a new device: the home computer. Her life spanned technologies, different ways of living, new visions of what the world was and what it could be.
"Siggy's first books were for adults – The Black Seven (1946) and The Baby Snatcher (1952) – but she realized, after casting a twelve-year-old boy as her detective, that she wanted to write for children. In 1957, she wrote The Other Side of the Tunnel, and in 1960, The Big Splash. Between these, she wrote The Gammage Cup (1959), a Newbery Honor Book and an Ohioana prize winner (published in England as The Minnipins). Twenty-eight years later, this book became a Hanna-Barbera animated film for television and is still in print. The famous editor Margaret McElderry worked with Siggy and offered suggestions that helped lead to the final draft of The Gammage Cup. The sequel, The Whisper of Glocken, was published in 1965. Siggy's final fantasy, The Firelings, was published in 1981 and won a Parents' Choice Award and the 1983 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award....."
(snip)
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/rec.arts.books.childrens/carol$20kendall/rec.arts.books.childrens/tx9OvYczwGs/TH4FDvzS0oYJ
(2007 birthday post - long)
Lenona.
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