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Beatrice Schenk de Regniers (August 16, 1914—March 1, 2000) was an American writer of children's picture books.
Beatrice Schenk de Regniers was born in Lafayette, Indiana, and studied social work administration at the University of Chicago, earning her M.Ed. in 1941. During the 1940s she worked in the US and in a Yugoslav refugee camp on the Sinai peninsula.
During the 1950s she was a free-lance writer of nonfiction, humor, short stories, and columns, as well as children's books. Her first book was The Giant Story, a picture book illustrated by Maurice Sendak, published by Harper in 1953.
From 1961 she worked at Scholastic, Inc. as the founding editor of its "Lucky Book Club", four days weekly with Monday reserved for her own writing. She retired twenty years later.
She wrote over fifty books, ten of which were published under the pseudonym of Tamara Kitt, including The Adventures of Silly Billy (1961), and The Boy Who Fooled the Giant (1963).
Illustrator Beni Montresor won the annual Caldecott Medal for May I Bring a Friend?, published by Atheneum Books in 1964.




Selected works


The Giant Story (1953), illus. Maurice Sendak
A Little House of Your Own (1954) — autobiography
What Can You Do with a Shoe? (1955), illus. Maurice Sendak; recolored 1997
Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats Illustrated by Bill Sokol

The Snow Party (1959; ISBN 0-394-91647-6)
The Little Girl and her Mother (1963; OCLC Number: 62439179)
May I Bring a Friend? (1964; ISBN 0-689-71353-3), illus. Beni Montresor
How Joe the Bear and Sam the Mouse Got Together (1965), illus. Brinton Turkle; (1990), illus. Bernice Myers
Red Riding Hood: Retold in Verse for Boys and Girls to Read Themselves (1972), illus. Edward Gorey
Laura's Story (ISBN 0-689-30677-6), illus. Jack Kent
Penny (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, 1987), illus. Betsy Lewin
Sing a Song of Popcorn: Every Child's Book of Poems (1988; ISBN 0-340-49078-0), illus. Trina Schart Hyman, Marcia Brown, Margot Zemach, Maurice Sendak, Arnold Lobel, Marc Simont, Richard Egielski, and Leo and Diane Dillon




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Beatrice Schenk de Regniers at Library of Congress, with 58 library catalog records
Tamara Kitt at LC Authorities, with 4 records, and at WorldCat

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