1893-1979 · Trinidad-born American children's author, teacher, and editor
About Alice Dalgliesh
Alice Dalgliesh (1893-1979) was born in Trinidad, then in the British West Indies, and became an American writer, teacher and editor. She taught for many years at the Horace Mann School in New York and in 1934 founded the children's book department at Charles Scribner's Sons, which she led until 1960. Of her more than forty books for children, three were named Newbery Honor Books: The Silver Pencil, The Bears on Hemlock Mountain and The Courage of Sarah Noble.
The Bears on Hemlock Mountain is a short chapter book about Jonathan, an eight-year-old boy who lives with his mother and father in a stone farmhouse at the foot of Hemlock Mountain in Pennsylvania, long ago. The mountain is really a big hill, and everyone tells Jonathan that there are no bears on it.
The Courage of Sarah Noble tells, in eleven short chapters, how eight-year-old Sarah Noble went with her father, John Noble, into the Connecticut wilderness in 1707 to build a house for their family. The rest of the Nobles stay behind in Massachusetts.