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Ellen Raskin

Author, Illustrator

(1928 - 1984)

Ellen Ermingard Raskin was an American children’s writer and illustrator. She won the 1979 Newbery Medal for “The Westing Game.” And her “Figgs & Phantoms” was a Newbery Honor Book in 1975.



Bibliography

Avignon in Flower: 1309-1403 (1965)

A history of a golden age.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Marzieh Gail
Illustrator(s): Pauline Baynes
Ellen Raskin

Sister Clare (1960)

The story of a cloistered Carmelite nun from novice to prioress.

Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Loretta Burrough
Illustrator(s): Pauline Baynes
Ellen Raskin

A Wrinkle in Time (1963)

When their scientist father disappears whilst on a secret mission, two children and a friend search for him through time and space by a process of "tessering."

Author(s): Madeleine L’Engle
Illustrator(s): Ellen Raskin

Newbery Medal
Newbery Medal - 1963

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