Alice Dalgliesh

Alice Dalgliesh was a naturalized American author and publisher who wrote more thanfiction and nonfiction books, mainly for children. She has been called a pioneer in the field of childrens historical fiction. Three of her books were runnersup for the annual Newbery Medal, the partly autobiographical The Silver Pencil, The Bears on Hemlock Mountain, and The Courage of Sarah Noble, which was also named to the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award list.

The Silver Pencil, published by Scribners in 1944, was a runnerup for the annual American Library Association Newbery Medal, a Newbery Honor Book in modern terms. The title refers to a silver pencil given to Dalgleish by her father.217 The book is a thinly veiled partialautobiography about Janet Laidlaw, born in Trinidad to a Scotch father and British mother, like Dalgliesh. Janet eventually comes to America and becomes a teacher and writer. The book, illustrated by Katherine Milhous, was called by Saturday Review, a treasure to possess and to keep. Two years later Along Janets Road, also illustrated by Milhous, continued the story.

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