Holling Clancy Holling

Born: 08/02/1900   Holling Corners, Henrietta Twp, (Jackson County)
Died: 09/07/1973
Parents: Bennett Allison Clancy and Lulah Holling
Spouse: Lucille Webster
Contact Information:
Website : http://hollingcholling.blogspot.com/

Writings

Image Title Genre Audience Publisher Date
The Magic Story Tree ; A Favorite Collection of Fifteeen Fairy Tales and Fables and
- Illustrated by Lucille and H. C. Holling.
Folklore Children New York, Platt & Munk 1964
Pagoo
- illustrated by the author and Lucille Webster Holling.
Fiction , Picture Book Children Cambridge, Mass. : Houghton Mifflin 1957
Minn of the Mississippi
- illustrated by the author.
Fiction , Picture Book Children Boston : Houghton Mifflin 1951
Seabird
- illustrated by the author. Newbery Honor Book ; 1949
Fiction , Adventure , Picture Book Children Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co 1948
Tree in the Trail
- illustrated by the author.
Historical Fiction , Picture Book Children Boston, Houghton Mifflin company 1942
Paddle-to-the-Sea
- Illustrated by the author. A young Indian boy carves an Indian figure in a small canoe and sends him off on a long adventurous journey through the Great Lakes to the sea.
Fiction , Adventure , Michigan , Picture Book Children Boston : Houghton Mifflin 1941
Little Buffalo Boy
- Illustrated by author and his wife
Fiction Children Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Co. 1939
The Book of Cowboys
- Illustrated by author and his wife (Publication Years: 1936, 1962)
Non Fiction Children [New York] : Platt & Munk Co. 1936
The Book of Indians
- Illustrated by author and his wife
Non Fiction Children New York : Platt and Munk 1935
The Twins Who Flew around the World
- Self-illustrated
Fiction Children [New York] : Platt & Munk Co. 1935
The road in storyland : edited by Watty Piper
- illustrated by Lucille W. and H.C. Holling.
Fiction Children [New York] : Platt & Munk Co. 1932
Choo-Me-Shoo the Eskimo
- Illustrated by the author and wife.
Non Fiction Children New Yorki: Buzza Volland Co. 1928
Claws of the Thunderbird: A Tale of Three Lost Indians
- written and illustrated by Holling Clancy Holling.
Non Fiction Children Joliet : P.F. Volland Co. 1928
Rocky Billy: The Story of the Bounding Career of a Rocky Mountain Goat
- illustrated by the author.
Non Fiction Children New York : Macmillan 1928
Rum-Tum-Tummy Fiction Children New York: Cogdon Volland and Buzza Co. 1927
Roll Away Twins
- Illustrated by author and Lucille W. Holling.
Fiction Children Chicago: P.F. Volland and Minneapolis: Buzza Co. 1927 -1928
Little Big-Bye-and Bye
- Self-illustrated
Non Fiction Children Chicago: P.F. Volland 1926
New Mexico Made Easy, with Words of Modern Syllables
- Self-illustrated and privately printed.
Non Fiction Children Chicago; Rockwell F. Clancy Co. 1923
Sun and Smoke: Verse and Woodcuts of New Mexico Non Fiction , Poetry Children Self-illustrated and privately printed 1923

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Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Author
Illustrator

Awards:

Name Date
Lewis Carroll Shelf Award for Paddle to the Sea 1962
Southern California Council on Literature for Children Award (awarded jointly to his wife, Lucille Holling) 1961
Newbery Honor Book : Minn of the Mississippi 1952
Newbery Honor Book : Seabird 1949
Commonwealth Club of California Literature Award 1948
Caldecott Honor Book: Paddle-to-the-Sea 1942

Inclusion in biographical or critical works:

Name Date
Ink Trails: Michigan's Famous and Forgotten Authors by Dave and Jack Dempsey 2012
St. James Guide to Children's Writers, edition 5 1998
Michigan Authors, 3rd edition 1993
Major Authors and Illustrators for Children and Young Adults, edition(s) 1, 2 1993 -2002
Literary Michigan by the Michigan Council for the Humanities 1988
Contemporary Authors - Obituary, volume(s) 106 1983
Something about the author. Volume 15 [electronic resource] / Anne Commire, [editor].
- Something about the Author - Obituary, volume(s) 26; 1982
1979 -1982
Twentieth Century Children's Writers 1978
Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West 1976
Authors and Illustrators of Children's Books: Writings on their lives and works 1972
Authors of Books for Young People 1971
Junior Book of Authors 1951
Story and Verse for Children 1940 -1965
American Authors and Books
Illustrators of Children's Books

Education:

Degree Institution Location Date
- Studied privately under Dr. Ralph Linton, a noted anthropologist who was at Yale University
School of the Art Institute of Chicago Chicago , IL

Career:

Position Organization Location Date
Art instructor First University World Cruise, sponsored by New York University. 1926
Taxidermy department Field Museum of Natural History Chicago , IL 1923 -1926
- Traveled widely, studied wildlife to get information for his books
- Various film adaptations of Paddle-to-the-Sea
Grocery clerk, factory worker, sailor on a Great Lakes Ore boat
Idea man, artist, copy writer

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