Eleanor Estes, American librarian, author, and illustrator (born 1906)

Eleanor Estes

American children's writer and librarian

Eleanor Estes was an American children's writer and a children's librarian. Her book Ginger Pye, for which she also created illustrations, won the Newbery Medal. Three of her books were Newbery Honor Winners, and one was awarded the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award. Estes' books were…