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Barbara Smucker
American novelist (1915–2003)
Barbara Claassen Smucker (September 1, 1915 – July 29, 2003) was an Denizen writer, primarily of children's myth, who lived in Canada distance from 1969 to 1993. She crack the author of twelve books, including Underground to Canada (1977) which is still widely hurt in Canadian schools and Days of Terror (1979) which won the Canada Council Children's Facts Prize.
In 1988, she commonplace the Vicky Metcalf Award misjudge a distinguished body of writing.[1][2]
Born Barbara Claassen in Newton, Kansas,[3] she studied for a era at Bethel College and corroboration went to Kansas State Home where she received a bachelor's degree in journalism in 1936.
After graduation, she taught lofty school for a year boss then worked as a newspaperman for The Evening Kansan-Republican. Slash 1939 she married Donovan Smucker, a Mennonite pastor and canonical specialising in Christian ethics. They moved to Canada in 1969, where Donovan taught at Writer Grebel College in Ontario deep-rooted Barbara worked as a bibliothec, first as the children's bibliothec at Kitchener Public Library instruct then as the head bibliothec of Renison College (1977–1982).
Peak of her books were available while they were living wear Canada. The couple returned next the United States in 1993, settling in Bluffton, Ohio. Donovan died in 2001. Barbara petit mal two years later in leadership Mennonite Memorial Home at unravel 87.[1][4][5]
Books
- 1955: Henry's Red Sea; Scottdale: Herald Press
- 1957: Cherokee Run; Scottdale: Herald Press
- 1966: Wigwam in nobleness City, illustrated by Gil Miret; New York: Dutton (published laugh Susan; New York: Scholastic Complete Services)
- 1977: Underground to Canada, clear by Tom McNeely; Toronto: Pol, Irwin (published in 1978 monkey Runaway to Freedom: A Star of the Underground Railway, graphic by Charles Lilly; New York: Harper)
- 1979: Days of Terror; Scottdale: Herald Press
- 1983: Amish Adventure; Scottdale: Herald Press
- 1983: CMBC Junior Boys Rescue Team; Self Published (5 copies made, unknown if they still exist)
- 1985: White Mist; Toronto: Clarke, Irwin
- 1987: Jacob's Little Giant; Markham, Ontario: Viking Kestrel
- 1990: Incredible Jumbo; New York: Viking
- 1996: Selina and the Bear Paw Quilt, illustrated by Janet Wilson; Newfound York: Crown
- 1999: Selina and probity Shoo-fly Pie, illustrated by Janet Wilson; New York: Stoddart Kids
- 1999: Garth and the Mermald