Happy 80th, Virginia Allen Jensen! (Writer/translator: "Lars Peter's Bicycle")

[leno...@yahoo.com]

Born in Des Moines, Iowa, she attended Bennington and the University
of Minnesota and now lives in Gentofte, Denmark.

"She has also written books for the blind, using texture and shape as
a way of helping visually handicapped children explore the world of
reading in new ways."

WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:
Juvenile:

Lars Peter's Birthday, Abingdon, 1959.

Hop Hans, Gyldendal, 1966.
Lars Peters Cykel, Gyldendal, 1968, published in England as Lars
Peter's Bicycle, Angus & Robertson, 1970.

Sara and the Door, Addison-Wesley, 1977.
("Having closed the front door on her coat, little Sara frantically
tries to free herself and in the process discovers how buttons and
buttonholes work.")
(With Dorcas Woodbury Haller) What's That?, Collins, 1979.
("Four friends attempt to find a hidden playmate.")
Red Thread Riddles, UNESCO, 1979.

Catching: A Book for Blind and Sighted Children with Pictures to Feel
as Well as to See, Philomel Books, 1983.

Translator from the Danish, except as indicated:

Ib Spang Olsen, The Marsh Crone's Brew, Abingdon, 1960.
Thea Bank Jensen, Play with Paper, Macmillan, 1962.
Olsen, The Boy in the Moon, Abingdon, 1963, reprinted, Parents'
Magazine Press, 1977.
Susanne Palsbo, Droll, Danish, and Delicious, Hoest & Sons, 1966.
Thoeger Birkeland, When the Cock Crows, Coward, 1968 (published in
England as The Wastelanders, Angus & Robertson, 1972).
Olsen, Where Is Martin?, Angus & Robertson, 1969, published as Cat
Alley, Coward, 1971.

Birkeland, The Lemonade Murder, Coward, 1971.
Olsen, Smoke, Coward, 1972.
Wilhelm Bergsoee, The Nisse from Timsgaard, Coward, 1972.
Olsen, The Little Switch Engine, Coward, 1976.
(Translator from the Swedish) Sarah Catherine Martin, Old Mother
Hubbard and Her Dog (translation from the original English by Lennart
Hellsing), Coward, 1976.

Lenona.