Beatrice Schenk de Regniers

Beatrice Schenk de Regniers (August 16, 1914 - March 1 2000) was a children's literature author. She was born in Lafayette, Indiana and studied social work administration at the University of Chicago, earning her M.Ed. in 1941. Her first book, The Giant Story, was published in 1953. Since then she wrote over 50 books, sometimes using the pseudonym Tamara Kitt.

elected bibliography

*"The Giant Story" (illustrated by Maurice Sendak) (1953)
*"A Little House of Your Own" (autobiography, written in 1954)
*"What Can You Do with a Shoe?" (illustrated by Maurice Sendak) (1955, recolored in 1997)
*"May I Bring a Friend?" (illustrated by Beni Montresor) (1964) (won the Caldecott Medal in 1965) ISBN 0-689-71353-3
*"How Joe the Bear and Sam the Mouse Got Together" (illustrated by Brinton Turkle in 1965 and later re-released with illustrations by Bernice Myers in 1990)
*"Red Riding Hood: Retold in Verse for Boys and Girls to Read Themselves" (illustrated by Edward Gorey) (1972)
*"Sing A Song Of Popcorn: Every Child's Book Of Poems" (illustrations by Maurice Sendak, Arnold Lobel, Trina Schart Hyman, Leo and Diane Dillon, and many more). (1988) ISBN 0-340-49078-0