Female : Children's writer

Nationality : English Place of Birth : Amberley, Sussex

Date of Birth : 1895 Date of Death : 1986 Age : 91

Other Work : Actress

Education : Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London

1931-1940
Whicharts (1931 Heinemann)
Top and Bottoms (1933 Heinemann)
Sherperdess of Sheep (1934 Heinemann)
The Children's Matinee (1934 Heinemann) - plays
Ballet Shoes : A Story of Three Children on the Stage (1936 Dent) - Ruth Gervis
It Pays to be Good (1936 Heinemann)
Wisdom Teeth (1936 Samuel French) - play
Tennis Shoes (1937 Dent) (1938 Random House) - Douglas L Mays
Caroline England (1937 Heinemann)
The Circus is Coming (1938 Dent) - Steven Spurrier
The Circus is Coming (1948 Dent) - Clarke Hutton
Dennis the Dragon (1939 Dent) - verse. Ruth Gervis
Luke (1939 Heinemann)
The House in Cornwall (1940 Dent) - D L Mays
The Winter is Past (1940 Collins)

1941-1950
The Children of Primrose Lane (1941 Dent) - Marcia Lane Foster
Harlequinade (1943 Chatto & Windus) - Clarke Hutton
Curtain Up (1944 Dent) - D L Mays
Myra Carroll (1944 Collins)
Saplings (1945 Collins 9/6)
Party Frock (1946 Collins) - Anna Zinkeisen
Grass in Piccadilly (1947 Collins)
The Painted Garden (1949 Collins) - Ley Kenyon
Osbert (1950 Rand McNally, Chicago) - Susanne Shuba
Mothering Sunday (1950 Collins)
(Ed) The Years of Grace (1950 Evans) - essays by various authors

1951-1955
The Theater Cat (1951 Rand McNally) - Susanne Shuba
The Picture Story of Britain (1951 Watts, NY)
White Boots (1951 Collins) - Milein Cosman
Aunt Clara (1952 Collins)
(Ed) By Special Request (1953 Collins) - stories by various authors
The First Book of Ballet (1953 Watts, NY) (1956 Bailey Bros & Swinfen, London)
The Fearless Treasure : A Story of England from Then to Now (1953 Collins) - Dorothea Braby
The Bell Family (1954 Collins 10/6) - Shirley Hughes
(Ed) Growing Up Gracefully : Etiquette (1955 Barker) - John Dugan

1956-1960
The Grey Family (1956 Hamish Hamilton) - Pat Marriott
Judith (1956 Collins)
(Ed) The Day Before Yesterday : Firsthand Stories of Fifty years Ago (1956 Collins) - Dick Hart
Musical Sketchbook (1957 Faber) - Milein Cosman
Wintle's Wonders (1957 Collins) - Richard Kennedy
The First Book of England (1958 Watts, NY) (1958 Bailey Bros & Swinfen, London)
Queen Victoria (1958 Random House, NY) (1961 W H Allen)
Magic and the Magician : E Nesbitt and Her Children's Books (1958 Benn)
Bertram (1959 Hamish Hamilton) - Margery Gill
Christmas with the Chrystals (1959 Basil Blackwell, Oxford)
The Royal Ballet School (1959 Collins) - Photos by Gabor Denes
Ballet Annual (1959 Collins) - Shirley Hughes
Baby Book Series (1959 Arthur Barker) - in 12 parts
New Town : A Story about the Bell Family (1960 Collins) - Shirley Hughes
Look at the Circus (1960 Hamish Hamilton)

1961-1965
The Silent Speaker (1961 Collins)
The Painted Garden : A Story of a Holiday in Hollywood (1961 Puffin pb) - Shirley Hughes
Apple Bough (1962 Collins) - Margery Gill
Lisa Goes to Russia (1963 Collins) - Geraldine Spence
A Vicarage Family (1963 Collins) - Charles Mozley
(Ed) Confirmation and After (1963 Heinemann)
(Ed) Priska (by Merja Otava) (1964 Benn)
The Children on the Top Floor (1964 Collins) - Jillian Willett
The Thames : London's River (1964 Garrard, US) (1966 Muller) - Kurt Wiese
Let's Go Coaching (1965 HH) - Peter Warner
Away from the Vicarage (1965 Collins)

1966-1970
The Growing Summer (1966 Collins) - Edward Ardizzone
Old Chairs to Mend (1966 HH) - Barry Wilkinson
Enjoying Opera (1966 Dobson) - Hilary Abrahams
Before Confirmation (1967 Heinemann)
The First Book of Shoes (1967 Watts, NY) (1971 Watts, London)
Caldicott Place (1967 Collins) - Betty Maxey
The Barrow Lane Gang (1968 BBC)
Gemma (1968 May Fair Books) - Betty Maxey
Gemma and Sisters (1968 May Fair Books)
(Ed) Nicholas (by Marlie Brande) (1968 Benn)
Gemma Alone (1969 May Fair Books)
Goodbye Gemma (1969 May Fair Books)
Thursday's Child (1970 Collins) - Peggy Fortnum
Red Riding Hood (1970 Benn)
(Ed) Sleepy Nicholas by Marlie Brande (1970 Benn)

1971 Onwards
Beyond the Vicarage (1971 Collins)
Ballet Shoes for Anna (1972 Collins) - Mary Dinsdale
The Boy Pharaoh, Tutankhamen (1972 Michael Joseph)
(Ed) The Noel Streatfield Summer Holiday Book (1973 Dent) - Sara Silcock
(Ed) The Noel Streatfield Christmas Holiday Book (1973 Dent) - Sara Silcock
(Ed) The Noel Streatfield Easter Holiday Book (1974 Dent) - Sara Silcock
(Ed) The Noel Streatfield Birthday Story Book (1976 Dent)
When the Siren Wailed (1974 Collins) - Margery Gill
Gran-Nannie (1975 Collins) - Charles Mozley
A Young Person's Guide to Ballet (1975 Warne)
Far to Go (1976 Collins) - Charles Mozley
(Ed) The Noel Streatfield Weekend Story Book (1977 Dent)
Meet the Maitlands (1978 W H Allen) - Antony Maitland
The Maitlands : All Change at Cuckly Place (1979 Allen) - Antony Maitland
The Growing Summer (1984 Collins) - Edward Ardizzone

READING
Barbara Ker Wilson : Noel Streatfield (1961 Bodley Head)
Angela Bull : Noel Streafield - A Biography (1984 Collins)