The Late JOAN BODGER

Joan was hired by Bennet Cerf to be traveling editor for Random House-Pantheon-Knopf after she was fired (1969) from the Missouri State Library as a "communist pornographer". (In 1972, her name was cleared by the American Library Association Intellectual Freedom Committee.) She taught children's literature and storytelling at Bank Street College in NYC, and was a regular reviewer of children's books for the New York Times. Her work in Canada included helping to found the Storytellers School of Toronto. Joan passed away in July 2002.

Books:

Tales of Court and Castle
Tundra Books, 2003

The Crack in the Teacup
McClelland and Stewart, (Can) 2000

The Forest Family
Tundra Books, (Can) 1999

• short-listed for the Canadian Library Association Award 2000

How The Heather Looks
McClelland and Stewart, (Can) 1999

Clever Lazy
Tundra Books, (Can) 1997

How The Heather Looks
Viking, (US) 1979

Belinda's Ball
Oxford University Press, (Can)