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Aug 16, 1914 — Mar 1, 2000· 85 yrs

UNITED STATES AUTHOR · CHILDREN · FICTION

Beatrice Schenk De Regniers

Also known as: Beatrice Schenk de Regniers, Beatrice de Regniers

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Beatrice Schenk de Regniers (August 16, 1914—March 1, 2000) was an American writer of children's picture books. Beatrice Schenk de Regniers was born in Lafayette, Indiana, and studied social work administration at the University of Chicago, earning her M.Ed. in 1941. During the 1940s she worked in the US and in a Yugoslav refugee camp on the Sinai peninsula. During the 1950s she was a free-lance writer of nonfiction, humor, short stories, and columns, as well as children's books. Her first book was The Giant Story, a picture book illustrated by Maurice Sendak, published by Harper in 1953. From 1961 she worked at Scholastic, Inc. as the founding editor of its "Lucky Book Club", four days weekly with Monday reserved for her own writing. She retired twenty years later. She wrote over fifty books, ten of which were published under the pseudonym of Tamara Kitt, including The Adventures of Silly Billy (1961), and The Boy Who Fooled the Giant (1963). Illustrator Beni Montresor won the annual Caldecott Medal for May I Bring a Friend?, published by Atheneum Books in 1964.

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Once, in the days of good Queen Bess, there was a boy named Jack.

— from Jack and the Beanstalk

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The boy, the rat, and the butterfly

1971

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A boy, a butterfly, and a scholarly rat find a jar of Wishing Solution with a Magic Straw inside.

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Abraham Lincoln Joke Book

1965

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Here are more than sixty jokes and humorous stories told by and about Abraham Lincoln, who used humor to prove a point, to help answer questions, or to cheer up people around him. The collection comprises a holograph, corrected typescripts (one in carbon), front matter, a galley proof, a corrected page proof, correspondence and a jacket proof.

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David and Goliath

1968

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We all know that underdogs can win -- that's what the David versus Goliath legend tells us, and we've seen it with our own eyes. Or have we? In David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell, with his unparalleled ability to grasp connections others miss, uncovers the hidden rules that shape the balance between the weak and the mighty, the powerful and the dispossessed. Gladwell examines the battlefields of Northern Ireland and Vietnam, takes us into the minds of cancer researchers and civil rights leaders, and digs into the dynamics of successful and unsuccessful classrooms–all in an attempt to demonstrate how fundamentally we misunderstand the true meaning of advantages and disadvantages. When is a traumatic childhood a good thing? When does a disability leave someone better off? Do you really want your child to go to the best school he or she can get into? Why are the childhoods of people at the top of one profession after another marked by deprivation and struggle? Drawing upon psychology, history, science, business, and politics, David and Goliath is a beautifully written book about the mighty leverage of the unconventional. Millions of readers have been waiting for the next Malcolm Gladwell book. That wait is over. - Publisher.

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