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Dorothy Bayley

Illustrator

(0 - 1979)

Dorothy Bayley was born in New York city and spent her childhood there. She attended Connecticut College for Women, majoring in fine arts. She graduated with an A. B. degree. Then she studied at the New York-Phoenix School of Design, under Norman Rockwell and Thomas Fogarty.

As soon as Bayley left design school, she started freelance illustrating. She illustrated over seventy children’s books for a number of different publishers.

She married Harry D. Morse, who was also an illustrator. Some of her books are attributed to her married name of Dorothy Bayley Morse.

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Bibliography

All Over Town (1939)

A ten-year-old girl living in a small town at the turn of the century finds her quiet life drastically changed when the new minister's two sons begin to include her in their escapades.

Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Carol Ryrie Brink
Illustrator(s): Dorothy Bayley

The Hidden Burro (1949)

Dorothy and Wally take their burro Chula to the nation’s capital for the summer - but their parents don’t know.

Author(s): Delia Goetz
Illustrator(s): Dorothy Bayley Morse

The Honest Dollar (1957)

Janie and her family live on a small island twenty miles off the coast of Maine. She wants to go lobstering, but that is no job for a girl.

Author(s): Dorothy Simpson
Illustrator(s): Dorothy Bayley Morse

A Lesson for Janie (1958)

Janie resents the new girl on the island and it takes a near tragedy to make them friends.

Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Dorothy Simpson
Illustrator(s): Dorothy Bayley Morse

A Matter of Pride (1959)

When the new teacher scolds Janie for not wearing shoes to school, she is too proud to admit her father is too poor to buy her new shoes.

Author(s): Dorothy Simpson
Illustrator(s): Dorothy Bayley Morse

New Horizons (1961)

Janey has the opportunity to attend high school on the mainland.

Author(s): Dorothy Simpson
Illustrator(s): Dorothy Bayley Morse

Wish on the Moon (1951)

A Halloween mystery for the Guthries and their friends.

Author(s): Dean Marshall
Illustrator(s): Dorothy Bayley Morse

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