Authors and Illustrators Database

Born: 11/09/1899  Bellaire, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.StringHtmlContent
Died: 04/05/1993
Parents: Leon Gray and Georgia Van Liew
Children: Virginia Springer, Eleanor Vloedman

Image	Title	Genre	Audience	Publisher	Date
	Feather in the Wind: The Story of a Hurricane	Fiction	Children	New York: Lothrup, Lee and Shepard	1972
	Honker Visits the Island	Fiction, Michigan	Children	New York: Lothrup, Lee and Shepard	1962
	A Pocketful of Seasons - Junior Literary Guild selection	Fiction	Children	New York: Lothrup, Lee and Shepard	1961
	Tell Me, Mr. Owl	Fiction	Children	New York: Lothrup, Lee and Shepard	1957
	Tell Me, Little Boy	Fiction	Children	New York: Lothrup, Lee and Shepard	1953

What is the aim or goal of your writing: "Teaching in a day care center was living with children during most of their waking hours. To be trusted by children is the greatest compliment. It has to be earned. It is forever. In return for that I made up stories for them which eventually became words on paper and, behold, I was an author. I presume every author views the happenings about him as story material. Here discrimination must play a part. A half-hearted effort has no place in literature. I am alarmed by the current trend of mass production of books for childrem. Why cannot there be a place for the special book to meet the needs of a child who hears a different drummer? Why? Too expensive. What pity."

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Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

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