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Eleanor Estes
(1906 - 1988)
Eleanor Estes was an American children’s author. Her book Ginger Pye won the Newbery Medal. Three of her books were Newbery Honor winners, and one was awarded the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award.
Estes’ books were based on her life in small town Connecticut in the early 1900s.
Bibliography
The Alley (1964)
Connie and her friend Billy investigate a mystery in their neighborhood.
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Author(s):
Eleanor Estes
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Best in Children’s Books Volume 19 (1959)
An assortment of stories, poems and articles, some of which have new illustrations.
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Best in Children’s Books Volume 19A (1967)
An assortment of stories, poems and articles, some of which have new illustrations. In this later edition, Flipper to the Rescue substitutes for Rip Van Winkle.
Best In Children’s Books Volume 31 (1960)
An anthology of stories, poems and articles, some of which have new illustrations.
Children Everywhere (1958)
A collection of stories and poems about children around the world for older readers.
The Children’s Hour Volume 10 (1953)
An anthology of stories about school and sports.
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The Children’s Hour Volume 6 (1953)
An anthology of contemporary mid-twentieth century stories.
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Collier’s Junior Classics Volume 5 (1962)
Eighteen stories set in America.
Ginger Pye (1951)
When their new puppy, Ginger, disappears the Pye’s suspect the man in the yellow hat may be the thief.
Author(s):
Eleanor Estes
Illustrator(s):
Eleanor Estes
The Hundred Dresses (1944)
Wanda wears the same dress to school, but she has a hundred dresses at home in her closet.
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Author(s):
Eleanor Estes
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
The Middle Moffat (1942)
Jane is the mysterious middle Moffat whose adventures we follow in this second book about the Moffat family.
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Author(s):
Eleanor Estes
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Miranda the Great (1967)
When the barbarians invade Rome, Miranda leads the kittens to safety in the coliseum.
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Author(s):
Eleanor Estes
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Moffats (1941)
The Moffats live on New Dollar Street with their widowed mother who is a seamstress.
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Author(s):
Eleanor Estes
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Pinky Pye (1958)
When the Pye family sets out for a summer of bird watching the little expect to end up with two new members.
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Author(s):
Eleanor Estes
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Rufus M. (1943)
In this volume of the history of the Moffat family, Rufus, the youngest sets out to make the family fortune.
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Author(s):
Eleanor Estes
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
Small but Wiry (1963)
A selection from The Middle Moffat.
Author(s):
Eleanor Estes
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
The Sun and The Wind and Mr. Todd (1943)
Mr. Todd, scion of a long line of weathermen, solves the problem of how to be always correct about the weather, with a little help from the Wind and the Sun.
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Author(s):
Eleanor Estes
Illustrator(s):
Louis Slobodkin
The Tunnel of Hugsy Goode (1972)
When Nicholas and Timothy break into the tunnel under the Alley, the adventure has just begun.
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Author(s):
Eleanor Estes
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Witch Family (1960)
Amy and Clarissa banish the wicked Old Witch to the Glass Hill, but she is not done with them yet. Fortunately Malachi the magic bumble bee is on their side.
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Author(s):
Eleanor Estes
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone