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Kate Seredy

Author, Illustrator, Translator

(1899 - 1975)

Kate Seredy (1899–1975) was a Hungarian-born writer and illustrator of children’s books. She won the Newbery Medal once, the Newbery Honor twice, the Caldecott Medal once, and Lewis Carroll Shelf Award. Most of her books were written in English, which was not her first language.



Bibliography

Smiling Hill Farm (1937)

The Wayne family are early pioneers in Indiana, settling at Smiling Hill Farm in 1817.

Author(s): Miriam E. Mason
Illustrator(s): Kate Seredy

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1938

Story Parade Red Book (1937)

A collection of 39 stories for boys and girls by noted authors, and with numerous illustrations.

Taming the Wild Grasses (1932)

An elementary school ancient history.

Author(s): Elizabeth Forbes O’Hara
Illustrator(s): Kate Seredy

The Tenement Tree (1959)

Tino spends the summer in the country with his aunt and helps her write a book about the animals he sees.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Kate Seredy
Illustrator(s): Kate Seredy

A Tree for Peter (1941)

Peter’s life is changed when he meets Peter King in shantytown

Author(s): Kate Seredy
Illustrator(s): Kate Seredy

Junior Literary Guild
Junior Literary Guild - 1942

We Are Neighbors (1957)

An elementary school reader.

The White Stag (1937)

The legendary tale of the migration of the Huns and Magyars from the east to Hungary.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Kate Seredy
Illustrator(s): Kate Seredy

Newbery Medal
Newbery Medal - 1938

Who Is Johnny? (1939)

A black boy, born in Hungary, travels to Berlin to find his long lost brother.

Author(s): Leopold Gedo
Illustrator(s): Leopold Gedo

Winterbound (1936)

Kay and Garry Ellis spend the winter in an old farm house, and are the better for it.

Author(s): Margery Williams Bianco
Illustrator(s): Kate Seredy

Newbery Honor Book
Newbery Honor Book - 1937
Newbery Honor Book
Junior Literary Guild - 1936

With Harp and Lute (1935)

A collection of poems and songs on Catholic themes.

Read online at archive.org. 

Author(s): Blanche Jennings Thompson
Illustrator(s): Kate Seredy

The Wonderful Year (1946)

Ellen moves with her family to a fruit farm in Colorado. The book won the Julia Ellsworth Ford Foundation Award as well as a Newbery Honor.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Nancy Barnes
Illustrator(s): Kate Seredy

Newbery Honor Book
Newbery Honor Book - 1947
Newbery Honor Book
Junior Literary Guild - 1946

Yankee Yarns: Stories from the Northeastern States (1944)

A collection of short stories set in the northeast states. Includes ‘A Nantucket Picnic’ by Elizabeth Enright and ‘Ice on Horse-Killer’ by Stephen W. Meader.

Young Walter Scott (1935)

An imaginative biography of Sir Walter Scott’s youth.

Author(s): Elizabeth Janet Gray
Illustrator(s): Kate Seredy

Newbery Honor Book
Newbery Honor Book - 1936
Newbery Honor Book
Junior Literary Guild - 1935

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