Else Holmelund Minarik

Else Holmelund was born in 1920 in Fredericia, Denmark, where as a young child she heard the stories of Hans Christian Andersen. She moved to the United States with her family at the age of four. She married Walter Minarik and graduated from Queens College in New York in 1942. During the Second World War she worked as a journalist for the Daily Sentinel newspaper in Rome, New York. She later lived on Long Island and taught first grade in the Commack school district. Wanting to give her pupils books they could read by themselves, she wrote stories using simple words. The result was Little Bear (1957), illustrated by Maurice Sendak, one of the first titles in the I Can Read series of books for beginning readers. It was followed by Father Bear Comes Home, Little Bear's Friend, Little Bear's Visit and A Kiss for Little Bear, all illustrated by Sendak, and the stories were later adapted for television. She wrote more than forty children's books in all and died in 2012.

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