Mark Taylor

Born: 08/15/1927   Linden
Died: 05/16/1992
Parents: Wilton Huebler, Constance Huebler Chinery
Address(es):
Last known
Montebello , CA

Writings

Image Title Genre Audience Publisher Date
Young Melvin and the Bulger
- When Melvin leaves home to see the world after his father dies, he leaves his dog with a crafty old man who tries to cheat him. However, Melvin has tricks of his own.
Fiction Children Garden City, NY : Doubleday 1981
The Case of the Missing Kittens Picture Book Children Atheneum 1978
Henry Explores the Mountains Picture Book Children New York : Atheneum 1975
Jennie Jenkins
- Of all the Jenkins family, Jenny is the most different and stubborn, which she proves by her approach to the first Nettle Bottom Ball.
Picture Book Children Boston : Little, Brown 1975
The Wind's Child
- Only the Witch Wind can bring the Wind's child to his heart's desire.
Picture Book , Poetry Children New York Atheneum 1973
Henry, the Castaway Picture Book Children New York : Atheneum 1972
Lamb, Said the Lion, I Am Here
- The animals of the earth have a three day truce to discuss the nature of God.
Picture Book Children San Carlos, Calif.: Golden Gate Junior Books 1971
The Fisherman and the Goblet: A Vietnamese Folk Talk
- A beautiful maiden thinks she loves a fisherman she has never seen, but when she finally meets him she forgets his love is more important than his ugly face.
Folklore , Picture Book Children San Carlos, Calif : Golden Gate Junior Books 1971
Bobby Shafto's Gone to Sea
- Bobby Shafto's unhappy experiences at sea change him from a dandy to a tough match for pirates. Based on an old nursery song.
Picture Book Children San Carlos, Calif.: Golden Gate Junior Books 1970
Old Blue, You Good Dog, You
-  Old Blue is the laziest hound dog in four counties except when it comes to his feud with Old Possum. Includes unaccompanied melody with words.
Picture Book Children San Carlos, Calif : Golden Gate Junior Books 1970
Wind in My Hand
- The life of the eighteenth-century Japanese haiku poet. Includes translations of some of the poems.
Biography Children San Carlos, Calif Golden Gate Junior Books 1970
Time for Old Magic
- Compiler with May H. Arbuthnot Folk and fairy tales from more than twenty-three countries.
Non Fiction Adult , Children , Teen Glenview, IL : Scott, Foresman 1970
The Old Woman and the Pedlar
-  The tale of Mulberry Meg, based on a nursery rhyme, and how she was persuaded to marry the pedlar. Includes musical setting of the song.
Picture Book Children San Carlos, Calif.: Golden Gate Junior Books 1969
Henry Explores the Jungle
- When a little boy sets off with his dog and wooden gun to explore the jungle, his mother doesn't believe he will catch a tiger as he claims he will. But neither he nor his mother know a circus tiger has escaped!
Picture Book Children New York : Atheneum 1968
A Time for Flowers
- Japanese in the United States
Picture Book Children San Carlos, Calif.: Golden Gate Junior Books 1967
The Bold Fisherman
- The ballad on which the children's story is based, arranged for voice and piano, with chord symbols, on end papers.
Non Fiction Children San Carlos, CA : Golden Gate Junior Books 1967
Henry, the Explorer Picture Book Children New York : Atheneum 1966
- Articles and reviews, Library Journal, Book Talk, The Reading Teacher and others
- Educational filmstrip and television scripts.

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Skills:
Author

Education:

Degree Institution Location Date
- Art pupil of various masters New York

Career:

Position Organization Location Date
Freelance writer, lecturer, consultant 1970
Television producer and performer Columbia Broadcasting System New York 1962 -1964
Children's book columnist Los Angeles Times Los Angeles , CA 1962 -1969
Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Library Science University of Southern California Los Angeles , CA 1960 -1969
Head of Youth Adult Services Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library Dayton 1957 -1960
Storyteller, balladeer 1950
radio producer and performer University of Michigan Broadcasting Service Ann Arbor 1950 -1956
Children's librarian University of Michigan Elementary School Ann Arbor 1950 -1956
- Author-in-residence for many schools across the country
- Conducted workshops and seminars for many associations such as The Children's Book Council.
- Guest lecturer, instructor at San Francisco State University, University of Nebraska, many others.

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