American writer
Claire Huchet Bishop
Born 30 December 1898Switzerland
Died 13 March 1993 (aged 94)Paris, France
Nationality Swiss Education Sorbonne , University of ParisKnown for Writing, writer, children's literature, poet, lecturer, editor Notable work The Five Chinese Brothers Pancakes-Paris ,All Alone Twenty and Ten
Claire Huchet Bishop (30 December 1898 – 13 March 1993)[ 1] children's writer and librarian. She wrote twoNewbery Medal runners-up,Pancakes-Paris All Alone Josette Frank Award forTwenty and Ten (1952). Her first English-language children's book became a classic:The Five Chinese Brothers Kurt Wiese and published in 1938, was named to theLewis Carroll Shelf Award list in 1959.
Claire Huchet was born inGeneva, Switzerland [ 2] France [ 3] [ 4] Sorbonne and started the first children's library in France.[ 4] [ 2] New York City Public Library from 1932–36,[ 5] apologist forRoman Catholicism and an opponent[ 2] antisemitism .[ 3]
She was a lecturer and storyteller throughout the US and was a children's book editor forCommonweal [ 5]
Bishop was the President of theInternational Council of Christians and Jews from 1975–77 and theAmitié judéo-chrétienne de France [fr ] [ 5]
Two of her books were made into films.[ 6]
After residing in New York for 50 years, Bishop returned to France and died in Paris in 1993.[ 2] [ 6]
1947 New York Herald Tribune Spring Book Festival prize 1948 Newbery Medal runner-up forPancakes-Paris 1952 Well-Met Children's Book Award, Child Study Association of America forTwenty and Ten 1952Josette Frank Award forTwenty and Ten 1959Lewis Carroll Shelf Award list forThe Five Chinese Brothers 1988 Nicholas and Hedy International Brotherhood award All Alone was a runner-up for the Newbery Medal and was chosen as the best-liked book by the Boys' Club of America[ 5] 1938The Five Chinese Brothers Kurt Wiese 1940The King's Day , illus. Doris Spiegel 1941The Ferryman , illus. Wiese 1942The Man Who Lost His Head Robert McCloskey 1945Augustus , illus. Grace Paul 1947Pancakes-Paris 1948Blue Spring Farm , a novel,LCCN 48-2029 1950Christopher The Giant , illus. Berkeley Williams, Jr. 1952Bernard and His Dogs , illus. Maurice Brevannes – aboutSaint Bernard de Menthon ,LCCN 52-7143 1952Twenty and Ten , by Bishop "as told by Janet Joly", illus.William Pène du Bois ,OCLC 297331 (re-published with minor edits in 1969 and 1973 asThe Secret Cave byScholastic )[ 7] 1953All Alone Feodor Rojankovsky 1954Martín de Porres, Hero , illus.Jean Charlot – aboutSaint Martín de Porres 1955The Big Loop , illus.Carles Fontserè – about theTour de France 1956Happy Christmas: Tales for Boys and Girls , edited by Bishop, illus.Ellen Raskin 1957Toto's Triumph , illus. Claude Ponsot 1960French Roundabout , 360 pp. illus. –LCSH France—Description and travel,LCCN 60-6027 ; revised 1966 1960Lafayette: French-American Hero , illus. Maurice Brevannes 1961A Present from Petros , illus. Dimitris Davis 1964Twenty-Two Bears , illus. Wiese 1966Yeshu, Called Jesus , illus. Donald Bolognese 1968Mozart: Music Magician , illus. Paul Frame 1971The Truffle Pig , illus. Wiese 1972Johann Sebastian Bach: Music Giant , illus. Russell Hoover 1973Georgette , illus. Ursula Landshoff 1938French Children's Books for English-speaking Children (New York: Sheridan Square Press), bibliography,LCCN 39-1262 1947France Alive .LCCN 48-5494 1950All Things Common .LCCN 50-10448 1950Boimondau: A French Community of Work 1971Jesus and Israel byJules Isaac , edited with a foreword by Claire Huchet Bishop; translated form the French by Sally Gran[ 8] 1974How Catholics look at Jews: Inquiries into Italian, Spanish, and French Teaching Materials .LCCN 73-91371 (Editor) Jules Isaac,Has Anti-semitism Roots in Christianity? , National Conference of Christians and Jews, 1961. (Editor) Isaac,The Teaching of Contempt , Holt, 1964. Poetry to some French avant-garde literary magazines[ 5] "Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians."[ 9] "Those who marry to escape something usually find something else."[ 10]
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