The Tomahawk Family, illustrator Stephen Cook, Harper, 1960 ISBN:0060210966.Evangeline, Pigeon of Paris, illustrator Nicholas Mordvinoff, Harcort Brace Jovanovich, 1960 reissued as Pigeon of Paris, illustrator Quentin Blake, Scholastic, 1972. A Brother for the Orphelines, illustrator Garth Williams, Harper, 1959.The Happy Orpheline, illustrator Garth Williams, Harper, 1957.The Talking Cat: and other stories of French Canada, illustrator Roger Duvoisin, Harper, 1952.For The Family Under the Bridge, she was a runner-up for the 1959 Newbery Medal from the professional librarians, which annually recognizes the "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children".Ĭarlson died on Septemin Rhode Island. Carlson published her first story at age eight on the children's page of the Baltimore Sunday Sun. For her lifetime contribution as a children's writer, she was United States nominee for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1966.Ĭarlson was born in Kernstown, Virginia of French Canadian descent, and worked many old family stories and folktales into early books like The Talking Cat and Other Stories of French Canada (1952). Natalie Savage Carlson (Octo– September 23, 1997) was an American writer of children's books.
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