April 1, 1892 - February 20, 1980
American history teacher, museum curator and children's book author
Author of "New Found World" (for which she was a Newbery Honor recipient in 1946), "Men, Microscopes and Living Things" (for which she was a Newbery Award recipient in 1955 and was republished as "So Many Marvels" in 1968) and "Mr. Bell Invents the Telephone" (reprinted in 1982 as "Alexander Graham Bell Invents the Telephone"