Florence Parry Heide (1919–2011)
Autor/a de The Day of Ahmed's Secret
Sobre l'autor
Florence Parry Heide was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on February 27, 1919. She studied at Wilson College before transferring to the University of California at Los Angeles, where she received a B.A. in English. She worked in advertising and public relations in New York City before returning to mostra'n més Pittsburgh during World War II. She moved to Wisconsin with her husband after the war and started writing books at the age of 48. She wrote or co-wrote over 100 children's books including the Treehorn series, Princess Hyacinth: The Surprising Tale of a Girl who Floated, and The One and Only Marigold. She also wrote under the pseudonyms Alex B. Allen and Jamie McDonald. Heide received numerous awards and honors including having The Shrinking of Treehorn named by the New York Times as the Best Illustrated Children's Book of 1971 and winning the Jugendbuchpreis for the Best Children's Book of Germany in 1977; The Day of Ahmed's Secret received the Editors' Choice Award from Booklist in 1991, and Sami and the Time of the Troubles received the Editors' Choice Award from Booklist in 1992. She died on October 24, 2011 at the age of 92. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Sèrie
Obres de Florence Parry Heide
The Treehorn Trilogy: The Shrinking of Treehorn, Treehorn's Treasure, and Treehorn's Wish (1971) 168 exemplars
Oh, Grow Up!: Poems to Help You Survive Parents, Chores, School, and Other Afflictions (1996) 42 exemplars
Maximilian 2 exemplars
Sebastian 2 exemplars
Quando Teodoro Encolheu 1 exemplars
Schorschis Wunsch 1 exemplars
Goldilocks and the three bears 1 exemplars
Schorschi 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Never Take a Pig to Lunch and Other Poems About the Fun of Eating (1994) — Col·laborador — 296 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Heide, Florence Parry
- Data de naixement
- 1919-02-27
- Data de defunció
- 2011-10-23
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- Lloc de defunció
- Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA
- Professions
- children's book author
- Relacions
- Gilliland, Judith Heide (daughter)
Membres
Converses
Children's book that featured a board game that made you shrink a Name that Book (novembre 2016)
Ressenyes
Llistes
1970s (1)
Princess Tales (1)
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 94
- També de
- 2
- Membres
- 4,697
- Popularitat
- #5,369
- Valoració
- 3.9
- Ressenyes
- 168
- ISBN
- 234
- Llengües
- 9
- Preferit
- 5