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Quotes from Eleanor Estes’ Children’s Books

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Eleanor Estes was a children’s book author/illustrator, a librarian, and a recipient of the Newbery Medal. Following is a selection of quotes by Eleanor Estes from her best known classic books for kids.

Many of Estes’ stories are based on her personal childhood. experiences. Her first book, The Moffats, was published in 1941, followed closely by The Middle Moffat, and Rufus M. 

The Moffats series was an immediate success, both at home and abroad, semi-autobiographical tales of the author’s own childhood. Another of her classics is The Hundred Dresses (1944). 

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Quotes by Jessie Redmon Fauset, Harlem Renaissance Author

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Jessie Redmon Fauset was a novelist and poet associated with the Harlem Renaissance. She was also a teacher of languages and editor for The Crisis magazine of the NAACP.

She also contributed her own writings — editorials, poetry, short stories, translations from the French of writings by black authors from Europe and Africa, as well as accounts of her worldwide travels.

Such was her influence that Fauset has long been considered one of the “midwives” of the Harlem Renaissance literary and artistic movement of the 1920s.

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