Eleanor Estes

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Eleanor Estes (May 9, 1906 – July 15, 1988) was an American children's writer and a children's librarian.

Ginger Pye, her book that she also created illustrations for, received the Newbery Medal.

Three of her books were Newbery Honor Winners, and one of them was given the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award.

Estes' books were based on her experiences in small town Connecticut in the early 1900s.

Life

Eleanor Estes was born in West Haven, Connecticut, Eleanor Ruth Rosenfield. She was the third child of father Louis Rosenfeld, a railway bookkeeper, and mother Caroline Gewecke Rosenfeld, a seamstress and storyteller. Estes' father died when she was young, and her mother's dressmaking provided for her family. Eleanor Estes, 267, attributes her parents' love of reading, children's literature, and storytelling to her parents' love of books and her mother's "inexhaustible supply of songs, tales, and anecdotes, which she entertained us with when making dinner." In 1923, she began at West Haven High School and became a children's librarian there.

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Estes received the Caroline M. Hewins scholarship for children's librarians in 1931, which enabled her to attend the Pratt Institute library school in New York. Rice Estes, a 1932 student, married her sister Rice Estes. They both worked as librarians in New York, and he later became a librarian and the head of the Pratt Institute Library. Estes served as a children's librarian in several New York Public Library branches before 1941. Estes began writing when tuberculosis had confined her to her bed. The Moffats, one of Estes' most popular fictional characters, live in Cranbury, Connecticut, which is located in Estes' hometown of West Haven. Moffats based the Moffats after her family, which included patterning younger daughter Janey after herself and naming Rufus on her brother, Teddy.

Helena, one of the Esteses' children, was born in Los Angeles in 1948, where Rice Estes was assistant librarian at the University of Southern California. They migrated east and worked as librarians in 1952. Estes has also spoken at the University of New Hampshire Writer's Conference.

Eleanor Estes died in Hamden, Connecticut, on July 15, 1988. Her papers are on file at the University of Southern Mississippi, University of Minnesota, and the University of Connecticut. She wrote 20 books.

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Awards

• Newbery Medal, 1952 – Ginger Pye
• Newbery Honor Books – The Middle Moffat, Rufus M., The Hundred Dresses
• Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, 1961 – The Moffats
• Certificate of Award for Outstanding Contribution to Children’s Literature, 1968
• Pratt Institute Alumni Medal, 1968
• Laura Ingalls Wilder Award Nominee, 1970