Claire Huchet Bishop
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Claire Huchet Bishop was a children's novelist and librarian, winner of the Newbery Honor for Pancakes-Paris and All Alone and the Josette Frank Award
for Twenty and Ten. The Five Chinese Brothers won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award
in 1959.
or Geneva, Switzerland, Bishop attended the Sorbonne
and started the first children's library in France. After moving to the United States, she worked for the New York City Public Library and was an apologist
for Roman Catholicism and an opponent of antisemitism.
Josette Frank Award
The Josette Frank Award is an annual children's literary award for fiction that honors a book or books of "outstanding literary merit in which children or young people deal in a positive and realistic way with difficulties in their world and grow emotionally and morally".Known as the Children's...
for Twenty and Ten. The Five Chinese Brothers won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award
Lewis Carroll Shelf Award
The Lewis Carroll Shelf Award was started in 1958 by Dr. David C. Davis with the assistance of Prof. Lola Pierstorff, Director Instructional Materials Center, Univ. of Wisconsin and Madeline Allen Davis, WHA Wisconsin Public Radio. Awards were presented annually at the Wisconsin Book Conference...
in 1959.
Life
An American born in FranceFrance
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
or Geneva, Switzerland, Bishop attended the Sorbonne
Sorbonne
The Sorbonne is an edifice of the Latin Quarter, in Paris, France, which has been the historical house of the former University of Paris...
and started the first children's library in France. After moving to the United States, she worked for the New York City Public Library and was an apologist
Apologetics
Apologetics is the discipline of defending a position through the systematic use of reason. Early Christian writers Apologetics (from Greek ἀπολογία, "speaking in defense") is the discipline of defending a position (often religious) through the systematic use of reason. Early Christian writers...
for Roman Catholicism and an opponent of antisemitism.
Children's books
- 1938 The Five Chinese BrothersThe Five Chinese BrothersThe Five Chinese Brothers is an American children's book written by Claire Huchet Bishop and illustrated by Kurt Wiese. It was originally published in 1938 by Coward-McCann.The book is a retelling of a Chinese folk tale.-Plot:...
(illustrated by Kurt WieseKurt WieseKurt Wiese was an award-winning German-born book illustrator. Wiese wrote and illustrated 20 children's books and illustrated another 300 for other authors.- Biography :Wiese was born in Minden, Germany...
) - 1940 The King's Day (illustrated by Doris Spiegel)
- 1941 The Ferryman
- 1945 Augustus
- 1947 Pancakes-Paris
- 1948 Blue Spring Farm
- 1950 Christopher The Giant
- 1952 Bernard & His Dogs
- 1952 Twenty and Ten (also published as The Secret Cave) (illustrated by William Pène du BoisWilliam Pène du BoisWilliam Pène du Bois , was a French American author and illustrator. He was best known for The Twenty-One Balloons, published in April 1947 by The Viking Press...
) - 1953 All Alone (illustrated by Feodor Rojankovsky)
- 1954 Martin de Porres, Hero
- 1955 Big Loop
- 1956 Happy Christmas Tales for Boys and Girls
- 1957 Toto's Triumph (illustrated by Kurt WieseKurt WieseKurt Wiese was an award-winning German-born book illustrator. Wiese wrote and illustrated 20 children's books and illustrated another 300 for other authors.- Biography :Wiese was born in Minden, Germany...
) - 1960 Lafayette: French-American Hero (illustrated by Maurice Brevannes)
- 1961 A Present from Petros
- 1964 Twenty-Two Bears
- 1966 Yeshu, Called Jesus
- 1966 French Roundabout
- 1968 Mozart: Music Magician
- 1969 The Man Who Lost His Head (illustrated by Robert McCloskeyRobert McCloskeyRobert McCloskey was an American author and illustrator of children's books. McCloskey wrote and illustrated eight books, two of which won the Caldecott Medal, the American Library Association's annual award of distinction for children's book illustration.Many of McCloskey's books were set on the...
aka the creator of Make Way for DucklingsMake Way For DucklingsMake Way for Ducklings is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Robert McCloskey. First published in 1941, the book tells the story of a pair of mallard ducks who decide to raise their family on an island in the lagoon in Boston Public Garden, a park in the center of Boston,...
) - 1971 The Truffle Pig (illustrated by Kurt WieseKurt WieseKurt Wiese was an award-winning German-born book illustrator. Wiese wrote and illustrated 20 children's books and illustrated another 300 for other authors.- Biography :Wiese was born in Minden, Germany...
) - 1972 Johann Sebastian BachJohann Sebastian BachJohann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...
: Music Giant - 1973 Georgette
Adult books
- 1947 France Alive
- 1950 All Things Common
- 1950 Boimondau: A French Community of Work
- 1971 Jesus and Israel Jules Isaac
- 1974 How Catholics look at Jews: Inquiries Into Italian, Spanish, and French Teaching Materials
Quotes
- "Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians."
- "Those who marry to escape something usually find something else."