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Becky Reyher

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(1897 - 1987)

Rebecca Hourwich Reyner was born in New York City of Russian immigrant parents. She was a women’s rights activist beginning in 1913. She worked as a journalist and traveled widely in Africa.



Bibliography

My Mother is the Most Beautiful Woman in the World (1945)

We don’t love people because they are beautiful. They are beautiful because we love them.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Becky Reyher
Illustrator(s): Ruth Chrisman Gannett

Caldecott Honor Book
Caldecott Honor Book - 1946

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