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Nov 24, 1939 — Jun 21, 2009· 69 yrs

UNITED STATES AUTHOR · FICTION · CHILDREN

H. B. Gilmour

Also known as: Gilmour, H. B., H.B. Gilmour

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Harriet B. Gilmour (November 24, 1939, Brooklyn, New York – June 21, 2009, Cornwallville, New York) was a bestselling author of movie novelizations and books for young adults and children. She grew up in Williamsburg, Brooklyn with her mother an extended family, and wrote her first poem for Arbor Day when she was eight years old. As a teenager, she moved to Florida to live with her father. She attended college there and then moved back to New York City. Gilmour's first publishing job was at E. P. Dutton.

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One fine day a fox traveled through a great forest.

— from One fine day

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One fine day

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Mollie Panter-Downes was a great writer with a style as smooth as silk. She had a wide following for her New Yorker columns, but I encountered her by accident while browsing the fiction shelves in my university library. At first, nothing much happens in One Fine Day, which is set in England in 1947. And then, it seems to me, everything happens. I found myself thinking: this is life, as viewed from a hilltop. I've read the book multiple times, and I still can't see how she does it. I bought a copy on Amazon, a first edition. It is one of my favourite books: gentle, lucid, surprising, precisely constructed.

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Oh baby!

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Sophie Marlowe's high school crush, Dillon Burke, returns home with his teenage nephew Aidan in tow and, before long, Sophie's younger sister Joy and Aidan are a couple and Sophie and Dillon's old feelings for one another are becoming impossible to resist.

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The curse of Katana

1996

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They're gruesome! They're ghastly! They're REAL MONSTERS, and they're learning how to scare the pants off you. Ickis, Oblina, and Krumm, three young monsters, attend the elite Monster Academy. Here they are honing their skills in the hope of one day being perfectly awful! At the museum, Ickis comes up with the most horrendous scare: He places Krumm's eyeballs in the mummy Katana's sockets. How inspiring! Humans run in terror when they see the mummy come to life. But the scare becomes truly frightful when Ickis can't get the eyeballs back out!

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