BIRTHDAYS | November 2018

C.S. Lewis was born Nov. 29, died Nov. 22.

Best Books for Kids (PW, 2018)

25 Best Movie Adaptations of Classic Children's Books (2017)

Homeschool Resources (2017)

BookHampton Indie Pick for Kids – Nevermore: The Trials of Corrigan Crow (2017)
Best New Books for Teens, 2016 (NYPL)
Best New Picture Books 2016
Fantastic Beasts (Rowling Flick) (2016)
Alice in Wonderland's Birthday in NYC and in Oxford (2015, 150th birthday)
Books for Kids on Being Thankful (2014)
Top Books for Kids/YA about World War 2 (2012; see Nov. 9, Kristallnacht)

Birthdays and Other Events
1 - All Saints' Day - Death of Hilda van Stockum* Remembrances of HvS (2006; would be 110 in 2018). Birthday of Hilary Knight (1926 – 92 in 2018)
2 - Natalie Kinsey-Warnock (1956)
3 - Janell Cannon (1957)
8 - Bram Stoker (1847)
9 - Pat Cummings (1950), Lois Ehlert (1934), Kay Thompson (1908) - Kristallnacht 
10 - Kate Seredy (1899), Neil Gaiman (1960)
12 - Anne Parrish - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1928) - Marjorie Weinman Sharmat (1928) - Death of Charlotte Zolotow (2013) - 84th Birthday in 2018 of Olga Marlin (Joan in The Mitchells)
13 - Jez Alborough (1959) - Robert Louis Stevenson (1850)
14 - Astrid Lindgren (Pippi Longstocking) (1907) - Constance Rourke - William Steig (1907) -  Nancy Tafuri (1946 – 71 in 2017)
16 - Jean Fritz (Homesick) (1915) - Robin McKinley (1952) - Carolyn Reeder (1937) 17 - Christopher Paolini (1983)
21 - Elizabeth George Speare (1908)
22 - Death of C. S. Lewis* (Comments) (Visit to CSL's Gravesite 2016) - Gloria Whelan (1923) 24 - Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849, Personal Comments) - Mordicai Gerstein (1935) - Ruth Sanderson (1951)
25 - Marc Brown (1946 – 71 in 2017) - Ellen Zolotow (1952, "Crescent Dragonwagon", daughter of Charlotte Zolotow who died at 98; see Nov. 12) - P.D. Eastman (1909)
26 - Charles M. Schulz* (1922) (Comment) - Daniel Hahn (1973)
27 - Kevin Henkes (1960) 28 - Ed Young (1931) - Violet Moore Higgins (1886)
29 - C. S. Lewis* (1898) (Personal Comment) - Louisa May Alcott (1832) (Personal Comment) -Madeleine L'Engle (1918) (Personal Comment)
30 - Mark Twain (1835) - Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874)
*Clerihew of the author included.

Support this blog and the availability of HvS books by buying any book from Boissevain Books, like:

• Books by HvS, such as Kersti and St. Nicholas, or Little Old Bear, or Penengro.
• Princess Josephine and the Rainbow Dragon, written by Hilda van Stockum's granddaughter Kate Bodsworth and illustrated by HvS's daughter Brigid Marlin (Patsy in The Mitchells). See recent review of the book here.
• A just-published new book by HvS son John (Timmy), Oxford College Arms! The beasts in the coats of arms are fun, and the book might motivate a young person to want to visit and apply to an ancient university like Oxford.

Boissevain Books LLC is a publishing company created by the six children of Hilda van Stockum – five of them alive at the end of October 2018, Sheila having died on September 25, 2017; she was Angela in The Mitchells and the other two books in the trilogy; she is with the angels now. Every year Boissevain Books has become stronger and a new generation of the family is readying itself to take it over when the children of HvS have gone to their reward. The primary mission of Boissevain Books was to keep HvS's 25 books for children available for purchase and remembered after her death in 2006. Providing a reliable platform for books by or about other family members, including books about Hilda van Stockum and her family, is a continuing secondary purpose.

Other Months of Birthdays of Writers4Kids: October 2018 . September 2018 . August 2018 . July 2018 - May 2018 - April 2018 - March 2018 - February 2018 . January 2018 . December 2017 .  November 2017.  October 2017