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Peggy Parish (1927–1988)

Autor(a) de Amelia Bedelia

82+ Works 41,616 Membros 607 Críticas 8 Favorited

About the Author

Peggy Parish was born in Manning, South Carolina on July 14, 1927. She attended the University of South Carolina and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. While visiting her brother in Kentucky, Parish was persuaded to enter the teaching profession. After teaching creative dancing to young mostrar mais children, she moved to Oklahoma and taught third grade in the Panhandle, in addition to teaching dance and producing community shows. Parish's first book, My Golden Book of Manners, was published in 1961, followed by Let's Be Indians in 1962. A parent of one of the students, who was an editor of adult books, found out she was trying to break into the writing field and introduced her to an editor at Harper who helped improve her skills as a storyteller. This, of course, led to her biggest breakthrough, the creation of Amelia Bedelia in 1963. Parish eventually wrote 11 more Amelia Bedelia books as well as a number of mystery novels, and arts and crafts books. Among these other titles are Haunted House, Dinosaur Time, The Chimp That Went to School and Let's Celebrate: Holiday Decorations You Can Make. In addition to writing books, Parish did television pieces on preschool education and children's books, wrote book review columns and led a number of in-service training workshops for teachers. Parish died of an aneurysm on November 19, 1988. Her nephew, Herman Parish, continues to recreate new titles in the Amelia Bedelia series. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos

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Obras por Peggy Parish

Amelia Bedelia (1963) 7,480 exemplares
Teach Us, Amelia Bedelia (1977) 3,347 exemplares
Play Ball, Amelia Bedelia (1962) 3,344 exemplares
Amelia Bedelia Goes Camping (1985) 2,694 exemplares
Come Back, Amelia Bedelia (1971) 2,394 exemplares
Amelia Bedelia Helps Out (1979) 2,225 exemplares
Thank You, Amelia Bedelia (1964) 2,148 exemplares
Merry Christmas, Amelia Bedelia (1986) 2,105 exemplares
Good Work, Amelia Bedelia (1976) 2,081 exemplares
Amelia Bedelia and the Baby (1981) 1,972 exemplares
Amelia Bedelia's Family Album (1750) 1,341 exemplares
Dinosaur Time (1974) 1,180 exemplares
No More Monsters for Me! (1981) 910 exemplares
The Amelia Bedelia Treasury (1998) 849 exemplares
Key to the Treasure (1966) 658 exemplares
The Adventures of Amelia Bedelia (1992) 512 exemplares
Scruffy (1988) 478 exemplares
Good hunting, Blue Sky (1988) 379 exemplares
Clues in the Woods (1968) 270 exemplares
My Little Golden Book of Manners (1962) 219 exemplares
The Haunted House (1971) 145 exemplares
Pirate Island Adventure (1975) 141 exemplares
Too Many Rabbits (1974) 139 exemplares
The Cats' Burglar (Avon Camelot) (1983) 113 exemplares
The Chimp That Went to School (1656) 106 exemplares
The Ghosts of Cougar Island (1986) 99 exemplares
The Mystery of Hermit Dan (1977) 94 exemplares
Ootah's Lucky Day (1970) 88 exemplares
Granny and the Desperadoes (1736) 74 exemplares
Mind Your Manners (1978) 57 exemplares
Granny and the Indians (1810) 48 exemplares
Collection of Storytime Favorites (2009) 48 exemplares
Be Ready at Eight (1979) 40 exemplares
Amelia Bedelia Audio Collection (2002) 26 exemplares
Let's Be Indians (1962) 18 exemplares
Willy is My Brother (1963) 17 exemplares
Good Hunting Little Indian (1962) 15 exemplares
Littlest Raccoon (1961) 15 exemplares
Costumes to Make (1970) 13 exemplares
I Can, Can You?: Level 4 (1980) 11 exemplares
A Beastly Circus (1969) 7 exemplares
Snapping Turtle's All Wrong Day (1970) 6 exemplares
Beginning Mobiles (1979) 4 exemplares
Little Indian (1964) 3 exemplares
Jumper goes to school (1969) 3 exemplares
The Golden Calendar 1966 (1965) 2 exemplares
Lets Be Indians 2 exemplares
Manners (A Little Golden Book) (1962) 2 exemplares
Hermit Dan 1 exemplar
Mr. Adam's Mistake 1 exemplar
Inga fler monster fr̲ mig (2000) 1 exemplar
Amelia Bedelia 4 1 exemplar

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Conhecimento Comum

Outros nomes
Parish, Margaret Cecile (birth name)
Data de nascimento
1927-07-14
Data de falecimento
1988-11-19
Localização do túmulo
Manning Cemetery, Manning, South Carolina, USA
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
USA
Local de nascimento
Manning, South Carolina, USA
Local de falecimento
Manning, South Carolina, USA
Causa da morte
aneurysm
Locais de residência
Manning, South Carolina, USA
Columbia, South Carolina, USA
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Educação
University of South Carolina (BA|English)
Vanderbilt University
Ocupações
teacher
children's book author
children's book reviewer
dance instructor
Relações
Parish, Herman (nephew)
Organizações
Authors Guild
Authors League of America
Delta Kappa Gamma
Dalton School
Carolina Today

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Margaret Cecile "Peggy" Parish was an American writer known best for the children's book series and fictional character Amelia Bedelia. Parish was born in Manning, South Carolina to a poor family, attended the University of South Carolina, and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. She worked as a teacher in Oklahoma, Kentucky, and in New York. She taught at the Dalton School in Manhattan for 15 years and published her first children's book while teaching third grade there. She authored over 30 books, which had sold 7 million copies at the time of her death.

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BooksInMirror | 15 outras críticas | Feb 19, 2024 |
Amelia Bedelia is a hilarious maid for the Rogers family, little do the Rogers know how literal she takes everything. When told to dress the turkey for dinner, Amelia creates an outfit to put on the turkey. A silly book that is guaranteed to create some laughs and a great way for students to learn about figurative language. Amelia can help teach kids about how hard some directions can be and how figurative language can be used for literary enjoyment. Great for many different figurative language such as idioms, figurative and literal language and even homophones at points throughout the book.… (mais)
 
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kdahl2022 | 205 outras críticas | Feb 10, 2024 |
Reading level: grades 1-5
Awards: Society of Illustrators
 
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tagravel | 205 outras críticas | Dec 9, 2023 |
EducatingParents.org rating: Approved
 
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MamaBearLendingDen | 33 outras críticas | Dec 2, 2023 |

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Obras
82
Also by
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Membros
41,616
Popularidade
#418
Avaliação
4.0
Críticas
607
ISBN
509
Línguas
4
Marcado como favorito
8

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