Claire Huchet Bishop (30 December 1898 – 13 March 1993) was a Swiss

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and librarian. She wrote two

Newbery Medal The John Newbery Medal, frequently shortened to the Newbery, is a literary award given by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), to the author of "the most distinguished cont ...

runners-up, ''Pancakes-Paris'' (1947) and '' All Alone'' (1953), and she won the Josette Frank Award for ''Twenty and Ten'' (1952). Her first English-language children's book became a classic: ''

The Five Chinese Brothers ''The 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, '' Ten Brothers''. ...

'', illustrated by

Kurt Wiese Kurt Wiese (April 22, 1887 – May 27, 1974) was a German-born book illustrator, who wrote and illustrated 20 children's books and illustrated another 300 for other authors. Background Kurt Wiese was born on April 22, 1887, in Minden, Germ ...

and published in 1938, was named to the

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list in 1959.

Life

Claire Huchet was born in

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and grew up in

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and started the first children's library in France. After marrying the American concert pianist Frank Bishop, she moved to the United States, worked for the New York City Public Library from 1932–36,Hile, Kevin S. "Claire Huchet Bishop." Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2007. Literature Resource Center, http://link.galegroup.com.aquinas.idm.oclc.org/apps/doc/H1000008845/LitRC?u=lom_aquinascoll&sid=LitRC&xid=f184b7b4. Accessed 27 February 2019. and was an

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for

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ism and an opponent of

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. She was a lecturer and storyteller throughout the US and was a children's book editor for ''Commonweal'' for some time. Bishop was the President of International Council of Christians and Jews from 1975–77 and the Jewish-Christian Fellowship of France from 1976-81. Two of her books were made into films. After residing in New York for 50 years, Bishop returned to France and died in Paris in 1993. She was 94 years old and died of a hemorrhage of the aorta.

Awards

*1947 New York Herald Tribune Spring Book Festival prize *1948 Newbery Medal runner-up for ''Pancakes-Paris'' *1952 Well-Met Children's Book Award, Child Study Association of America for ''Twenty and Ten'' *1952 Josette Frank Award for ''Twenty and Ten'' *1959

list for ''

'' *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

Works

Children's books

*1938 ''

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*1940 ''The King's Day'', illus. Doris Spiegel *1941 ''The Ferryman'', illus. Wiese *1942 ''

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'', illus.

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*1945 ''Augustus'', illus. Grace Paul *1947 ''Pancakes-Paris'', illus. Georges Schreiber *1948 ''Blue Spring Farm'', a novel, *1950 ''Christopher The Giant'', illus. Berkeley Williams, Jr. *1952 ''Bernard and His Dogs'', illus. Maurice Brevannes – about

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, *1952 ''Twenty and Ten'', by Bishop "as told by Janet Joly", illus.

William Pène du Bois William Sherman Pène du Bois (May 9, 1916 – February 5, 1993) was an American writer and illustrator of books for young readers. He is best known for ''The Twenty-One Balloons'', published in April 1947 by Viking Press, for which he won the 194 ...

, (re-published with minor edits in 1969 and 1973 as ''The Secret Cave'' by Scholastic) *1953 '' All Alone'', illus.

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*1954 ''Martín de Porres, Hero'', illus.

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– about

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*1955 ''The Big Loop'', illus.

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– about the

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*1956 ''Happy Christmas: Tales for Boys and Girls'', edited by Bishop, illus.

Ellen Raskin Ellen Raskin (March 13, 1928 – August 8, 1984) was an American children's writer and illustrator. She won the 1979 Newbery Medal for ''The Westing Game'', a mystery novel, and another children's mystery, '' Figgs & Phantoms'', was a Newbery ...

*1957 ''Toto's Triumph'', illus. Claude Ponsot *1960 ''French Roundabout'', 360 pp. illus. – LCSH France—Description and travel, ; revised 1966 *1960 ''Lafayette: French-American Hero'', illus. Maurice Brevannes *1961 ''A Present from Petros'', illus. Dimitris Davis *1964 ''Twenty-Two Bears'', illus. Wiese *1966 ''Yeshu, Called Jesus'', illus. Donald Bolognese *1968 ''Mozart: Music Magician'', illus. Paul Frame *1971 ''The Truffle Pig'', illus. Wiese *1972 ''Johann Sebastian Bach: Music Giant'', illus. Russell Hoover *1973 ''Georgette'', illus. Ursula Landshoff

Adult books

* 1938 ''French Children's Books for English-speaking Children'' (New York: Sheridan Square Press), bibliography, *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''

Other Writings

*(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

Quotes

*"Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians." *"Those who marry to escape something usually find something else."Quoteworld

References

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bishop, Claire Huchet 1898 births 1993 deaths 20th-century American women writers American children's writers American librarians American women librarians American Roman Catholics Newbery Honor winners Writers from Geneva Swiss emigrants to the United States University of Paris alumni American women children's writers Swiss expatriates in France