Holling C. Holling
(1900 - 1973)
Holling Clancy Holling (born Holling Allison Clancy, August 2, 1900 – September 7, 1973) was an American author and illustrator, best known for the book “Paddle to the Sea,” which was a Caldecott Honor Book in 1942. Paddle to the Sea won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1962. In 1966, Bill Mason directed the Oscar-nominated short film Paddle to the Sea, based on Holling’s book, for the National Film Board of Canada.
Bibliography
American Backgrounds (1958)
An anthology of early American stories for older children.
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Book of Cowboys (1936)
Peter and Barbara Ann spend the summer on their uncle’s ranch and learn about cowboys firsthand.
Read online at archive.org.
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The Book of Indians (1935)
Blending history and stories, this account of the American Indian has become a classic.
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Children Of Other Lands (1943)
From North America to North Africa and everywhere in-between, stories of how children of other lands live.
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Claws of the Thunderbird: A Tale of Three Lost Indians (1928)
Three Chippewa children captured by the Sioux escape to warn their tribe of an imminent raid by their enemy. Read online at Hathitrust.
Little Buffalo Boy (1939)
A story about the plains Indians.
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Minn of the Mississippi (1951)
We see the Mississippi River through the eyes of a snapping turtle.
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Paddle-to-the-Sea (1941)
Explore the Great Lakes and the Saint Lawrence Seaway with Paddle.
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Pagoo (1957)
The life history of a hermit crab.
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Rocky Billy (1928)
The adventures of a young mountain goat. Read online at Hathitrust.
Rum-Tum-Tummy (1936)
Rum Tum Tummy was a bold, bad elephant until he met up with a railway and a typhoon.
Seabird (1948)
The Seabird follows the history of American seafaring.
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Treasure Book of Favorite Tales (1936)
A collection of thirty-six stories. Includes Little Folks of Other Lands, fairy tales and fables.
Elizabeth Colborne
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Tree in the Trail (1942)
The story of a cottonwood tree leads to the history of the Santa Fe Trail.
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