1. Kate Seredy was an American writer and illustrator of children's books.
17 Facts About Kate Seredy
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Kate Seredy won the Newbery Medal once, the Newbery Honor twice, the Caldecott Honor once, and the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award.
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Kate Seredy was born on November 10,1899 in Budapest, Hungary.
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Kate Seredy was the only child of a schoolteacher, Louis Peter Seredy, and his wife, Anna Ireny.
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Kate Seredy received a diploma to teach art from the Academy of Arts in Budapest.
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In 1922 Kate Seredy moved from Budapest to the United States.
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Kate Seredy studied English language, working as an illustrator and artist to support herself, while preparing to illustrate children's books.
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In 1935 Kate Seredy met May Massee, the children's editor at Viking Press.
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Massee didn't have any illustration work for Kate Seredy, but encouraged her to write about her childhood in Hungary, promising to publish the book for Christmas.
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Kate Seredy used many of her impressions and experiences in the story about young Kate, who is sent by her widowed father from Budapest to the country to live with her Uncle and his family.
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The Good Master was named a Newbery Honor book in 1935, a runner-up to Caddie Woodlawn, which Kate Seredy illustrated for Simon and Schuster.
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In 1936 Kate Seredy wrote and illustrated Listening, set in rural New Jersey.
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Kate Seredy learned these stories from her father when she was a child.
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Kate Seredy continued to write and illustrate her own books as well as those of other writers.
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Kate Seredy had twelve children's books published, but she considered herself an illustrator before an author.
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Kate Seredy had a unique style, primarily based on drawing, and considered her books "an excuse for making pictures".
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Kate Seredy died on March 7,1975, in Middletown, New York, at the age of 75.