Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars (Miss Pickerell #1)
Book Details
| Title: | Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars (Miss Pickerell #1) | ||||||||||
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| Published: | 1951 | ||||||||||
| Publisher: | Whittlesey House | ||||||||||
| Tags: | adventure, children, fiction | ||||||||||
| Description: | Miss Pickerell was mighty glad to be home from her vacation. She had had an overdose of noise and confusion. As she led her cow out to graze behind her little house she thought happily about the rest they were both going to have. But suddenly she saw, right in the middle of the pasture, the strangest, largest contraption she had ever laid eyes on. She was very frightened, but this was a clear case of trespassing. Miss Pickerell didn't hesitate. She went right up to investigate the outrage.
What happens after that is more than she bargains for. It is a question who is most surprised: Miss Pickerell or the captain and the crew! [Suggest a different description.] |
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| Downloads: | 187 | ||||||||||
| Pages: | 65  |
Author Bio for MacGregor, Ellen
Ellen MacGregor (May 15, 1906 – March 29, 1954) was an American children's writer. She is known best for the Miss Pickerell series of children's novels.
MacGregor began to write for publication in 1946. A story that she submitted at that time for a class at the Midwestern Writers Conference was later published as the book Tommy and the Telephone. The first appearance of Miss Pickerell, her famous and quirky major character was in the short story "Swept her into Space", published in Liberty during 1950. She expanded it to book length, published in 1951 as Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars, a science fiction novel for children. MacGregor's goal was to provide fantasy literature with correct (for the time) scientific facts that would appeal to children. Miss Pickerell was well received by critics, such as Virginia Kirkus, who wrote: "A lively novelty. Fact and fancy in a new venture for this age group." It was also released as the initial selection of the new Weekly Reader Children's Book Club. Three other Miss Pickerell adventures followed before MacGregor's early death.
Besides these books, many of MacGregor's stories appeared in magazines of that period, such as Story World, The Instructor, and Christian Home.
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