Happy 80th, Josephine Poole! (British writer: "Joan of Arc," 1998)

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Her real name is Jane Penelope Josephine Helyar. She lives in Taunton, Somerset, England.

http://www.josephinepoole.co.uk/
(with photo)

http://whistlesinthewind.wordpress.com/2012/04/14/josephine-poole-and-moon-eyes/
("Appreciating Josephine Poole" - it's about the book "Moon Eyes")

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/p/josephine-poole/
(book covers)

She says:
".......inspiration for my children's books begins with my own childhood: a close--sometimes too close--family life, side by side with fear; of the dark, of the huge old house where we lived with its woods, attics, and imagined ghosts, of my mother's bad health, and of the war, which though remote, colored everything. . . . I [try] to remember the kind of book that gripped me most as a child, the kind of situations I found most tense, and put them in. . . . I am convinced of the strength of goodness against the lure of evil."

WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:
Under name Josephine Poole:


A Dream in the House, Hutchinson, 1961.
Moon Eyes, Hutchinson, 1965, Little, Brown, 1967.
Catch as Catch Can, Hutchinson, 1969, Harper, 1970.


The Visitor, Harper, 1972 (published in England as Billy Buck, Hutchinson, 1972).
Touch and Go, Harper, 1976.
When Fishes Flew, Benn, 1978.
The Open Grave, Benn, 1979.
The Forbidden Room, Benn, 1979.


Hannah Chance, Hutchinson, 1980.
Diamond Jack, Hutchinson, 1983.
Three for Luck, Hutchinson, 1985.
Wildlife Tales, illustrated by Douglas Hall. London, Hutchinson, 1986 .
The Loving Ghosts, Hutchinson, 1988.
Puss in Boots, Hutchinson, 1988.
(Re-Teller) The Sleeping Beauty, Barron's, 1989.
Angel. London, Hutchinson, 1989 .


This Is Me Speaking. London, Hutchinson, 1990 , Random House, 1991 .
(Re-Teller) Snow White, illustrated by Angela Barrett, Random House, 1992.
Paul Loves Amy Loves Christo. London, Hutchinson, 1992 .
(Re-Teller) Pinocchio, 1994.
Deadly Inheritance. London, Hutchinson, 1995 .
Hero. London, Hodder, 1997 .
(Re-Teller) The Water Babies, Millbrook Press, 1998.
Joan of Arc, illustrated by Angela Barrett, Knopf, 1998.


Run Rabbit, 2000.
Fair Game, 2000.
Anne Frank, illustrated by Angela Barrett, 2005.


Lenona.

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Forgot to say - she wrote an autobiographical piece for volume 138 of the "Something About the Author" encyclopedias - it's about 11 pages long!

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On Tuesday, February 12, 2013 at 11:22:09 AM UTC-7, leno...@yahoo.com wrote:
> Forgot to say - she wrote an autobiographical piece for volume 138 of the "Something About the Author" encyclopedias - it's about 11 pages long!

I just read her mid-school audience book Catch as Catch Can and loved it. I am 82 as of July 2019.

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On Thursday, February 13, 2020 at 2:36:23 AM UTC-5, dale.no...@gmail.com wrote:

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> I just read her mid-school audience book Catch as Catch Can and loved it. I am 82 as of July 2019.

Thanks, it's always nice to get feedback!

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/799089.Catch_as_Catch_Can
(reviews of that novel)



Lenona.

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On Thursday, February 13, 2020 at 2:36:23 AM UTC-5, dale.no...@gmail.com wrote:

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> I just read her mid-school audience book Catch as Catch Can and loved it. I am 82 as of July 2019.

By the way, there's more than one thriller with that title - and it looks as though the Fantastic Fiction link above connects to the wrong one! (That book - for adults - is from 1953, by the Edgar-winning Charlotte Armstrong, who died in 1969. It takes place in California.)


Lenona.