Claire Huchet Bishop

Claire Huchet Bishop (1899 – 13 March 1993) 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.

Life

An American born in France ^[1] or Geneva, Switzerland, ^[2] Bishop attended the Sorbonne and started the first children's library in France. ^[2] 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^[3] of antisemitism.^[1]

Works

Children's books

• 1938 The Five Chinese Brothers (illustrated by Kurt Wiese)
• 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 Bois)
• 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 Wiese)
• 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 McCloskey aka the creator of Make Way for Ducklings)
• 1971 The Truffle Pig (illustrated by Kurt Wiese)
• 1972 Johann Sebastian Bach: 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." ^[4]
• "Those who marry to escape something usually find something else." ^[5]

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b} Encyclopedia Britannica
2. ^ ^{a b} Nancy Larsen biography
3. ^ http://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/14/obituaries/clare-huchet-bishop-94-author-of-popular-books-for-children.html
4. ^ Quoteworld
5. ^ Quoteworld

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Name	Bishop, Claire Huchet
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Date of birth	1899
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Date of death	13 March 1993
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