Eleanor Estes

Eleanor Ruth Rosenfeld was born in 1906 in West Haven, Connecticut, and grew up in a family that loved books and stories. After high school she worked in the children's department of the New Haven Free Public Library, then studied library science and worked as a children's librarian at the New York Public Library. In 1932 she married Rice Estes, who also became a librarian. Her first book, The Moffats (1941), drew on her own childhood in a small Connecticut town, following a family of four children and their widowed mother, and it was followed by more books about the family. The Hundred Dresses (1944), about a poor Polish-American girl who is teased by classmates for wearing the same dress every day, was a Newbery Honor Book and is widely read for its gentle treatment of kindness and regret. Ginger Pye, about a family's lost dog, won the Newbery Medal in 1952. She also wrote and illustrated books for adults and children. She died in Connecticut in 1988.

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