![]() ![]() She had completed the fourth Miss Pickerell book, the one at hand, Miss Pickerell Goes to the Arctic, and that came out the same year. Two further Miss Pickerell books appeared before she died, only 47, in 1954. ![]() Miss Pickerell first appeared in a short story in 1950, and the story was expanded into Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars. She began writing in the 1940s, and her first children's book was published in 1947. She seems to have lived a peripatetic life - she got her degree in Library Science from the University of Washington in Seattle, and worked as a librarian in Hawaii, in Chicago, and in Florida among other places. (Particularly, I suppose, the first in the series, Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars, from 1951.) I never encountered these books as a child, so I thought a look would be interesting.Įllen MacGregor was born in 1906 in Baltimore. I remembered Miss Pickerell as a the heroine of a series of books that some people used to cite as early science fiction they read when they were kids. ![]() Well, I thought that when I found a copy of Miss Pickerell Goes to the Arctic for 50 cents (the same price it sold for from Scholastic in the 1970s!) at an estate sale last weekend. ![]() I thought it time to return to a subtheme of this blog - old children's books. Pickerell Goes to the Arctic, by Ellen MacGregor ![]()
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