Eleanor Estes
(1906 - 1988)
Eleanor Estes was an American children’s author. Her book Ginger Pye won the Newbery Medal. Three of her books were Newbery Honor winners, and one was awarded the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award.
Estes’ books were based on her life in small town Connecticut in the early 1900s.
Bibliography
The Alley (1964)
Connie and her friend Billy investigate a mystery in their neighborhood.
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Best in Children’s Books Volume 19 (1959)
An assortment of stories, poems and articles, some of which have new illustrations.
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Charles E. Carryl
Eleanor Estes
Helen Dean Fish
Washington Irving
Frances Clarke Sayers
Et al
Robin Jacques
Grace Paull
Peter Spier
Leonard Weisgard
Et al
Best in Children’s Books Volume 19A (1967)
An assortment of stories, poems and articles, some of which have new illustrations. In this later edition, Flipper to the Rescue substitutes for Rip Van Winkle.
Charles E. Carryl
Eleanor Estes
Helen Dean Fish
Frances Clarke Sayers
Et al
Robin Jacques
Grace Paull
Peter Spier
Et al
Best In Children’s Books Volume 31 (1960)
An anthology of stories, poems and articles, some of which have new illustrations.
Margery Clark
Eleanor Estes
Joseph Jacobs
Et al
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Maurice Sendak
Edward Shenton
Et al
Children Everywhere (1958)
A collection of stories and poems about children around the world for older readers.
Rachel Field
Robert Frost
Sterling North
Johanna Spyri
Et al
Kate Seredy
Louis Slobodkin
Hilda van Stockum
Kurt Wiese
Et al
The Children’s Hour Volume 10 (1953)
An anthology of stories about school and sports.
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Eleanor Estes
Elizabeth Janet Gray
William Heyliger
Owen Johnson
Stephen W. Meader
John R. Tunis
Et al
Keith Ward
Et al
The Children’s Hour Volume 6 (1953)
An anthology of contemporary mid-twentieth century stories.
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Elizabeth Enright
Eleanor Estes
Mabel L. Robinson
Phil Stong
Et al
Armstrong Sperry
Keith Ward
Kurt Wiese
Et al
Collier’s Junior Classics Volume 5 (1962)
Eighteen stories set in America.
Elizabeth Enright
Eleanor Estes
Rachel Field
Robert McCloskey
Keith Robertson
Sydney Taylor
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Et al
Robert McCloskey
Helen Sewell
Louis Slobodkin
Garth Williams
Et al
Ginger Pye (1951)
When their new puppy, Ginger, disappears the Pye’s suspect the man in the yellow hat may be the thief.
The Hundred Dresses (1944)
Wanda wears the same dress to school, but she has a hundred dresses at home in her closet.
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The Middle Moffat (1942)
Jane is the mysterious middle Moffat whose adventures we follow in this second book about the Moffat family.
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Miranda the Great (1967)
When the barbarians invade Rome, Miranda leads the kittens to safety in the coliseum.
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The Moffats (1941)
The Moffats live on New Dollar Street with their widowed mother who is a seamstress.
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Pinky Pye (1958)
When the Pye family sets out for a summer of bird watching the little expect to end up with two new members.
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Rufus M. (1943)
In this volume of the history of the Moffat family, Rufus, the youngest sets out to make the family fortune.
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Small but Wiry (1963)
A selection from The Middle Moffat.
The Sun and The Wind and Mr. Todd (1943)
Mr. Todd, scion of a long line of weathermen, solves the problem of how to be always correct about the weather, with a little help from the Wind and the Sun.
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The Tunnel of Hugsy Goode (1972)
When Nicholas and Timothy break into the tunnel under the Alley, the adventure has just begun.
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The Witch Family (1960)
Amy and Clarissa banish the wicked Old Witch to the Glass Hill, but she is not done with them yet. Fortunately Malachi the magic bumble bee is on their side.
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