Maurice Dolbier
(0 - 1993)
Maurice Dolbier was a book editor of The New York Herald Tribune and The Providence Journal-Bulletin, an actor and the author of children’s books.
Mr. Dolbier wrote two novels, six children’s books and several plays. He became literary editor of The Journal in 1951 and a book reviewer at The Tribune in 1956, but returned to The Journal in 1967 after The Tribune and its successor, The World Journal Tribune, closed.
His books on humor included “Nowhere Near Everest,” and “All Wrong on the Night.” His children’s books were “The Bus That Nobody Loved,” “The Magic Shop,” “The Half-Pint Jinnie and Other Stories,” “Paul Bunyan,” “Toten’s Christmas Secret” and “A Lion in the Woods.” His novels were “Benjy Boone” and “The Mortal Gods.”
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Bibliography
Best in Children’s Books Volume 28 (1959)
A compendium of stories, poems and articles, some of which have new illustrations.
Maurice Dolbier
E.T.A. Hoffman
William Dean Howells
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Et al
Elizabeth Enright
Feodor Rojankovsky
Garth Williams
Et al
Jenny, the Bus that Nobody Loved (1944)
Jenny may be old, but she’s not decrepit and she has a gold button on her dash.
The Magic Bus (1948)
Jenny the bus may be old, but she has a golden button on her dashboard that will take you anywhere. This is an abridged edition of Jenny, the Bus that Nobody Loved.