Else Holmelund Minarik

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Else Holmelund Minarik (born September 13, 1920 in Fredericia , Denmark , † July 12, 2012 in Sunset Beach, North Carolina ) was a Danish - American children's book author . Your children's book series Little Bear (engl. Little Bear ) was widely circulated and became as animated - television series filmed.

biography

Else Holmelund Minarik was born in Denmark and immigrated to the USA with her parents at the age of four. In 1940 she married Walter Minarik († 1963). After studying psychology and art at Queens College, City University of New York , she worked as a journalist for the Daily Sentinel newspaper in Rome during World War II . She then moved to Long Island , where she taught as a teacher for elementary school students in the Commack School District. She wrote her first book The Little Bear for her daughter Brooke and then used it in class with her students. Minarik later lived in Nottingham ( New Hampshire ) and was married to Pulitzer Prize-winning Homer Bigart in 1970, his second marriage . After his death in 1991, she settled in Sunset Beach North Carolina , where she continued to work as a writer for a long time and died of an old age of complications from a heart attack .

Publications (selection)

  • Little Bear. ( The Little Bear ) - children's book series; Illustrated with the exception of the last volume by Maurice Sendak .
  1. Little Bear. 1957. ( The little bear )
  2. A Present for Mother Bear. 1958.
  3. Father Bear Comes Home. 1959. (German translation: Father Bear comes home. 1961. New edition 2014 as Father Bear is back. )
  4. Little Bear's Friend. 1960. ( The little bear and his girlfriend. 1962. (2014, ISBN 978-3-8449-0937-1 ))
  5. Little Bear's Visit. 1961. ( The little bear on visit. New edition 2014 as a visit from the little bear. )
  6. A Kiss for Little Bear. 1968. (German translation: A kiss for the little bear. 1974, ISBN 3-7941-0264-9 )
  7. Little Bear and the Marco Polo. 2010. (illustrated by Dorothy Doubleday)
  • No fighting, no biting! 1958. (illustrated by Maurice Sendak)
  • The Little Giant Girl and Elf Boy. 1963. (illustrated by Garth Williams )
  • Cat and Dog. (illustrated by Fritz Siebel)
  • Percy and the Five Houses. 1989. (illustrated by James Stevenson )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ buch-historia.ch: The little bear ; accessed on November 17, 2019.
  2. ↑ Else Holmelund Minarik obituary. In: The Guardian. July 19, 2012 ( theguardian.com , accessed November 17, 2019)
  3. ↑ Else Holmelund Minarik / Maurice Sendak: The Little Bear. September 18, 2013 (culturmag.de accessed on November 17, 2019)
  4. ↑ Else Holmelund Minarik, Author of Little Bear Books, Dies at 91. In: The New York Times. July 13, 2012 ( nytimes.com , accessed November 17, 2019)

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personal data
SURNAME Minarik, Else Holmelund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish-American children's author
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Fredericia
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 2012
Place of death Sunset Beach, North Carolina