Biographies of the lives and works of seventeen authors give some insight into their personalities and interests. Here are Mary Norton and E.B. White, brilliantly conveying their world of tiny people; Hugh Lofting, Astrid Lindgren, and P.L. Travers, inventors of delightfully unpredictable characters; Marguerite Henry, peerless among horse-story writers; Laura Ingalls Wilder and Carol Ryrie Brink, with their family chronicles of pioneer life, and Elizabeth Enright with her contemporary family tales; Claire Huchet Bishop and Meindert DeJong, writing knowledgeably and vividly about children in many lands; Rumer Godden, with her tender world of dolls and little animals; Eleanor Farjeon, superlative fantasy-writer and versifier; Elizabeth Coatsworth and her meticulous historical fiction; Marguerite de Angeli writing compassionately about minority groups of yesterday and today; Joseph Krumgold, preoccupied with the problems of the modern boy—and A.A. Milne's innocent, bygone world of Christopher Robin and Winnie-the-Pooh.

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