Authors and Illustrators Database

Born: 02/10/1891  Jackson
Died: 07/01/1976
Parents: Quinton Smith Walker

Image	Title	Genre	Audience	Publisher	Date
	Daisy: The Story of a Horse - Daisy refused to pull the grocery wagon after 6pm on Saturdays. Story takes place in Jackson, MI in the 1890s. Illustrated by Betty Beeby.	Fiction, Michigan	Children	Grand Rapids, Mich., Eerdmans	1970
	Daisy Strikes on Saturday Night	Fiction, Michigan	Children	Hillsdale, Mich. : Hillsdale Educational Publishers	1968
	Beneath the Singing Pines	Michigan History	Children	Hillsdale, Mich. : Hillsdale Educational Publishers	1967
	Woodland Wigwams	Folklore, Michigan	Children	Hillsdale, MI : Hillsdale Educational Publishers	1964
	Red Indian Legends : tribal tales of the Great Lakes - Chippewa Indian Legends	Folklore	Children	London : Odhams Press Limited	1961
	Legends of Green Sky Hill - Foreword by E. C. Beck of Chippewa Indian Legends	Folklore	Children	Grand Rapids, Eerdmans	1959
	Other writings: - Over 160 articles and stories for such magazines as Children's Activities, Highlights for Children, Journal of American Folklore, American Nature Magazine, Your Personality, Our Dumb Animals, The English Journal and others		Children

What is the aim or goal of your writing: 2nd ed says, "While living in Charlevoix, Michigan she became interested in Chippewa Indian legends and felt they should be preserved. It often took six weeks to get the story of one legend from an Indian squaw. She gathered 64 legends and the material for her books in northern Michigan, Wisconsin, and southern California."

May inquiries be sent to you about doing workshops, readings: No

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

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