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American author of children's books
Else Holmelund Minarik (née Holmelund ; September 13, 1920 – July 12, 2012) was a Danish-born American author of more than 40 children's books. She was most commonly associated with her
Little Bear series of children's books, which were
adapted for television .
[1] Minarik was also the author of another well-known book, No Fighting, No Biting!
[2]
[3]
Biography
Born in
Fredericia , Denmark, Minarik immigrated to the United States at the age of four with her family. By 1940, Else had married Walter Minarik, who died in 1963.
[1] After graduating from
Queens College, City University of New York (B.A., 1942), she became a journalist, for the Daily Sentinel newspaper of
Rome, New York , during World War II. She subsequently lived on
Long Island , where she was employed as a first-grade teacher for the
Commack School District .
[2] She later lived in
West Nottingham, New Hampshire . Minarik married her second husband, Pulitzer-winning journalist
Homer Bigart , in 1970;
[1] after his death in 1991, she moved to
Sunset Beach
[3] in
Brunswick County, North Carolina , where she continued writing longhand, as she always had.
[4]
[5]
Minarik's last book, Little Bear and the Marco Polo , was published in 2010. After having suffered a heart attack at 91, she died at home from complications, on July 12, 2012.
[2]
[6]
[7]
Selected bibliography
Little Bear series (illustrated by
Maurice Sendak , except for the last entry):
Little Bear (1957)
Father Bear Comes Home (1959)
Little Bear's Friend (1960)
Little Bear's Visit (1961)
A Kiss for Little Bear (1968)
Little Bear and the Marco Polo (2010) – illustrated by Dorothy Doubleday
[2]
No Fighting, No Biting! (1958) – illustrated by Maurice Sendak
Cat and Dog (1960) – illustrated by Fritz Siebel (published with new illustrations by Bryan Langdo in 2005)
The Little Giant Girl and Elf Boy (1963) – illustrated by
Garth Williams
[8]
Percy and the Five Houses (1989) – illustrated by
James Stevenson
References
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c Julia Eccleshare (July 19, 2012).
"Else Holmelund Minarik obituary | Books | guardian.co.uk" . London: Guardian. Retrieved July 19, 2012 .
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d Shannon Maughan (July 13, 2012).
"Else Holmelund Minarik" . Publishers Weekly. Retrieved December 25, 2015 .
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"Remembering "Little Bear" Author Else Holmelund Minarik" . North Carolina Arts Council. July 14, 2009. Archived from
the original on August 16, 2017. Retrieved September 5, 2017 .
^ Engel, MJ (February 15, 2006).
" 'Little Bear' author creates in Calabash" . The StarNews . Retrieved August 13, 2012 .
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"Author: Else Holmelund Minarik" . Random House Group Limited. Archived from
the original on September 15, 2015. Retrieved December 25, 2015 .
^ Fox, Margalit (July 13, 2012).
"Else Holmelund Minarik, Author of Little Bear Books, Dies at 91" . The New York Times . Retrieved August 13, 2012 .
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"Minarik, Else Holmelund" . Bookology Magazine. May 15, 2015. Retrieved December 25, 2015 .
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The Little Giant Girl and the Elf Boy . Harper & Row. January 1963.
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