Beatrice Schenk de Regniers papers 1961-1968

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Beatrice Schenk de Regniers papers 1961-1968

The collection consists of dummies, correspondence, manuscripts, outlines, sketches, research notes, drafts, galley proofs, and typescripts by the children's book author and editor Beatrice Schenk de Regniers (1914-2000), for her books (1963), (1964), (1965), and (1968). The Little Girl and Her Mother May I Bring a Friend? The Abe Lincoln Joke Book Willy O'Dwyer Jumped in the Fire

0.42 Linear feet

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SNAC Resource ID: 6327993

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Gilman, Esther

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De Regniers, Beatrice Schenk.

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Beatrice Schenk de Regniers was born in Lafayette, Indiana on August 16, 1914, and died March 1, 2000. She studied social work administration at the U of Chicago and earned her M.Ed in 1941 from Winnetka Graduate Teacher's College. After doing social work for several years she was sent to the Sinai Peninsula to a Yugoslav refugee camp, constructing a kindergarten and teaching American folk dances to the children. During the 1950s she began writing for children, and "italic">The Giant Story ap...

Montresor, Beni

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Beni Montresor was born March 31, 1926 in Bussolengo, Italy. He studied at the Liceo Artistico in Verona, and later at the Academia de Belle Arti in Venice and the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. He worked in Italy as a newspaper film critic, author of radio plays, and set designer, and came to the United States in 1960. He continued to work as a set and costume designer for operas and musicals, and also began illustrating and writing children's books. He has illustra...

Cummings, William Lahey

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