Born: 03/14/1889   Lapeer
Died: 06/16/1987
Parents: Shadrach George Lofft, Ruby A. Lofft
Spouse: John De Angeli
Children: John, Arthur, Harry, Nina, Maurice
Address(es):
Last Known
Philadelphia , PA

Image	Title	Genre	Audience	Publisher	Date
	Friendship and Other Poems	Poetry	Children	New York: Doubleday and Co.	1981
	Whistle for the Crossing - the story of the first train to travel the new railroad tracks from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh.	Historical Fiction	Children	New York: Doubleday and Co.	1977
	The Lion in the Box - A Christmas story, a widowed mother, poverty, and an unexpected gift.	Fiction	Children	Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co.	1975
	Fiddlestrings - One of deAngeli's longer books, it is based on the boyhood of her husband John Daily de Angeli in the 1890s.	Fiction	Children	Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co.	1974
	Butter at the old price; the autobiography of Marguerite de Angeli	Biography , Michigan	Adult	Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co.	1971
	The Goose Girl, a new translation -  Illustrated version of the Grimm story original.	Folklore	Children	Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co.	1964
	Marguerite de Angeli's Favorite Hymns	Non Fiction	Adult , Children , Teen	Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co.	1963
	A Pocket Full of Posies: A Merry Mother Goose	Non Fiction , Poetry	Children	Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co.	1961
	The Old Testament - (Publication Years: 1960, 1967)	Non Fiction	Adult , Children , Teen	New York: Doubleday, Doran and Co.	1960
	The Black Fox of Lorne - Newbery Honor Book, 1957. Tenth-century Viking twins shipwreck on the Scottish coast and seek to avenge the death of their father; they encounter loyal clansmen at war, kindly shepherds, power-hungry lairds, and staunch crofters.	Fiction , Adventure	Children	Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co.	1956
	Book of Nursery and Mother Goose Rhymes - A Caldecott Honor book in 1955.	Non Fiction , Poetry	Children	Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co.	1954
	Just Like David - Jeffrey wants to be just like his older brother David	Fiction	Children	Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co.	1951
	The Door in the Wall - Newbery Medal winner about a boy's courage during plague years in Medieval England; central character deals with a physical handicap.	Historical Fiction	Children	Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co.	1949
	Jared's Island - When his ship is wrecked, a young boy is rescued by Quakets and comes to live in New Jersey in 1760. He runs off to live with the Indians but later returns to his Quaker firends and a new adventure, seeking hidden treasure.	Adventure , Historical Fiction	Children	Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co.	1947
	Bright April - A story about the prejudice experienced by African-Americans in Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a daring topic for its time. (images)	Fiction	Children	Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co.	1946
	Turkey for Christmas - Autobiographical. Republished, 1964.	Fiction	Children	Phiadelphia: Westminister Press	1944
	Yonie Wondernose - Caldecott Honor Book, 1945. A curious Amish boy who lives on a Pennsylvania Dutch farm shares a wonderful secret with his father.	Fiction	Children	New York, NY : Doubleday	1944
	Up the Hill - Story of a young mine worker from a Pennsylvania mining town who aspires to an art career; describes immigrant Polish customs, food, language, music, and daily life.	Fiction	Children	New York: Doubleday, Doran and Co.	1942
	Elin's Amerika - A story about the earliest Swedish settlers in the Delaware Valley in Pennsylvania.	Historical Fiction	Children	New York: Doubleday, Doran and Co.	1941
	A Summer Day with Ted and Nina	Fiction	Children	New York: Doubleday, Doran and Co.	1940
	Thee, Hannah! - A story about a young Quaker girl meeting an escaped slave in pre-Civil War Philadelphia.	Historical Fiction	Children	New York: Doubleday, Doran and Co.	1940
	Skippack School - "Being the Story of Eli Shrawder and of one Christopher Dock, Schoolmaster about the year 1750". A story about school-master and humanist Christopher Dock at the Mennonite School near Skippack, Pennsylvania during the 1700s.	Historical Fiction	Children	New York: Doubleday, Doran and Co.	1939
	Copper-Toed Boots - Chosen one of Michigan's most notable books. A portrayal of the mid-nineteenth century rural life of the author's father in Lapeer, Michigan.	Historical Fiction , Michigan	Children	New York: Doubleday, Doran and Co.	1938
	Petite Suzanne -  A story filled with folkways and customs of daily life as experienced by a Gaspé Peninsula French-Canadian girl named Suzanne.	Historical Fiction	Children	New York: Doubleday, Doran and Co.	1937
	Henner's Lydia -  A story about a young Amish girl set in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.	Historical Fiction	Children	New York: Doubleday, Doran and Co.	1936
	Ted and Nina Have a Happy Rainy Day - Set in the attic of the house of the author's maternal grandparents.	Fiction	Children	New York: Doubleday, Doran and Co.	1936
	Ted and Nina Go to the Grocery Store	Fiction	Children	New York: Doubleday, Doran and Co.	1935
	Nursery Rhymes article for Compton's Pictured Encyclopedia - Wrote and Illustrated

What is the aim or goal of your writing: 2nd ed. says, "Marguerite de Angeli's childhood interests: drawing, painting, writing, singing, carried over into her adult life. Her love of family life also found its way into her books. Her pictures and books depict the happy, pious, gentle features of her character. Many of her books are of minority groups and foreign born, and show a child working to attain some degree of maturity set by the parents."

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Name	Date
Inducted into Michigan Women's Hall of Fame	1984
The Lapeer City Branch Library was renamed the Marguerite De Angeli Branch Library	1981
Governor Miliken declared her 90th birthday "Marguerite de Angeli Day".	1979
Regina Medal, Catholic Library Association	1968
Lit Brothers Good Neighbor Community Service Award	1963
Citation from Graduate School of Library Science, Drexel Institute of Technology	1963
Lewis Carroll Shelf Award for Door in the Wall	1961
Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania	1958
John Newbery Award for The Door in the Wall	1950
Junior Literary Guild Selection for Bright April	1946

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