Lilian Moore, was a writer of children's books, teacher and poet.
15 Facts About Lilian Moore
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Lilian Moore founded and edited for Scholastic's Arrow Book Club, a low-cost mail-order paperback service for children.
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Lilian Moore helped found the Council on Interracial Books for Children.
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Lilian Moore was educated at Hunter College where she graduated with a bachelor in Arts in 1930.
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Lilian Moore had majored in English and had planned to teach Elizabethan literature at the college level.
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Lilian Moore then continued with some graduate work at Columbia University.
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Lilian Moore became an elementary school teacher in New York, NY from 1930 to 1937.
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Lilian Moore began work as a freelance editorial consultant for children's books in 1950.
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Lilian Moore began work as a reading specialist in 1952.
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Lilian Moore went to work as an editor for Scholastic Corporation from 1957 until 1967.
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Lilian Moore served as an editor from 1957 until 1967.
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Lilian Moore was a series editor for Thomas Y Crowell, New York, New York.
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Lilian Moore later became the director of Brooklyn Community Counseling Center.
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In 1960, Lilian Moore won The New York Times Best Books of the Year selection.
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Lilian Moore was awarded the Child Study Association Children's Books of the Year five times.