Eleanor Lowenton Clymer
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Eleanor Clymer, born Eleanor Lowenton, was an American writer of children's books, best known for The Trolley Car Family (1947). She graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1928 with a degree in English. Between the years of 1943 and 1983 she published 58 books, including The Tiny Little House, My Brother Stevie, and Hamburgers–and Ice Cream for Dessert. - Wikipedia
Books
Me and the Eggman
Dissatisfied with home life, a young boy runs away to live on the farm of the man who delivers eggs.
The grocery mouse
Squeaker the mouse lives in a grocery store with his family. When he ventures into the store in the daytime, he meets the mouse Saltina. The two are chased outdoors by a cat, and have many adventures out in the world before returning to the safety of the grocery store.
The big pile of dirt
The neighborhood children think a truckload of dirt dumped in an empty city lot makes a wonderful playground and when two women advise the mayor to clear it away one youngster tells him how much fun the dirt pile is.
My brother Stevie
An unmanageable younger brother makes life difficult for his sister until a sympathetic school teacher befriends and helps them both.
Sociable Toby
Toby, a woolly black dog, moves in with Miss Emma. Toby enjoys playing with the neighborhood children. Toby's socializing brings everyone together.
Horatio's birthday
Finding the house too quiet after Mrs. Casey's other pets grow up and leave home, Horatio begins to mope until he finds a way to remedy the situation.
The Second Greatest Invention
Describes how the archaeologists' quest for man's agricultural beginnings led to discoveries dating from 7000 B.C. which helped reconstruct the birth of farming and its spread westward.
Belinda's New Spring Hat
Belinda tries on most of the receptacles in the house while looking for a spring hat. Then Daddy solves the problem by giving her--a flowerpot?
We Lived in the Almont
While her father was Super of the Almont, twelve-year-old Linda had more friends and a nicer apartment than ever before in her life. Then word came that the building was to be torn down.
Horatio goes to the country
Everything about the farm visit was awful, until Horatio the cat explored the beauties of a meadow at night.
Engine number seven
In a little town in Maine the old narrow gauge railroad is gradually replaced by cars, trucks, and buses that do the same job just as well--or can they?
Take tarts as tarts is passing
Two brothers set out to make their fortune in the world, each following an old woman's advice differently.
The tiny little house
''The Tiny Little House'' (1964), by Eleanor Clymer, was inspired by a small house she saw squeezed between two tall buildings in Manhattan. The tiny little house was empty. Nobody lived in it. Nobody cared about it. Nobody wanted it at all. Nobody but Jane and Alice. With the help of Mrs. O'Brien, the two little girls adopt a tiny vacant house and transform it into a playhouse, a home for a little old lady, and a cookie shop for everyone. Book includes recipe for Sugar Cookies. The story was later adapted into a musical for children, ''The Little House of Cookies."
