• Source: Claire Huchet Bishop

      • Claire Huchet Bishop (30 December 1898 – 13 March 1993) was a Swiss children's writer and librarian. She wrote two Newbery Medal runners-up, Pancakes-Paris (1947) and All Alone (1953), and she won the Josette Frank Award for Twenty and Ten (1952). Her first English-language children's book became a classic: The Five Chinese Brothers, illustrated by Kurt Wiese and published in 1938, was named to the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award list in 1959.


      Life


      Claire Huchet was born in Geneva, Switzerland and grew up in France or Geneva. She attended the Sorbonne and started the first children's library in France. After marrying the American concert pianist Frank Bishop, she moved to the United States, worked for the New York City Public Library from 1932–36, and was an apologist for Roman Catholicism and an opponent of antisemitism.
      She was a lecturer and storyteller throughout the US and was a children's book editor for Commonweal for some time.
      Bishop was the President of the International Council of Christians and Jews from 1975–77 and the Amitié judéo-chrétienne de France (Jewish-Christian Fellowship of France) from 1976-81.
      Two of her books were made into films.
      After residing in New York for 50 years, Bishop returned to France and died in Paris in 1993. She was 94 years old and died of a hemorrhage of the aorta.


      Awards


      1947 New York Herald Tribune Spring Book Festival prize
      1948 Newbery Medal runner-up for Pancakes-Paris
      1952 Well-Met Children's Book Award, Child Study Association of America for Twenty and Ten
      1952 Josette Frank Award for Twenty and Ten
      1959 Lewis Carroll Shelf Award list for The Five Chinese Brothers
      1988 Nicholas and Hedy International Brotherhood award
      All Alone was a runner-up for the Newbery Medal and was chosen as the best-liked book by the Boys' Club of America


      Works




      = Children's books

      =
      1938 The Five Chinese Brothers, illustrated by Kurt Wiese
      1940 The King's Day, illus. Doris Spiegel
      1941 The Ferryman, illus. Wiese
      1942 The Man Who Lost His Head, illus. Robert McCloskey
      1945 Augustus, illus. Grace Paul
      1947 Pancakes-Paris, illus. Georges Schreiber
      1948 Blue Spring Farm, a novel, LCCN 48-2029
      1950 Christopher The Giant, illus. Berkeley Williams, Jr.
      1952 Bernard and His Dogs, illus. Maurice Brevannes – about Saint Bernard de Menthon, LCCN 52-7143
      1952 Twenty and Ten, by Bishop "as told by Janet Joly", illus. William Pène du Bois, OCLC 297331 (re-published with minor edits in 1969 and 1973 as The Secret Cave by Scholastic)
      1953 All Alone, illus. Feodor Rojankovsky
      1954 Martín de Porres, Hero, illus. Jean Charlot – about Saint Martín de Porres
      1955 The Big Loop, illus. Carles Fontserè – about the Tour de France
      1956 Happy Christmas: Tales for Boys and Girls, edited by Bishop, illus. Ellen Raskin
      1957 Toto's Triumph, illus. Claude Ponsot
      1960 French Roundabout, 360 pp. illus. – LCSH France—Description and travel, LCCN 60-6027; revised 1966
      1960 Lafayette: French-American Hero, illus. Maurice Brevannes
      1961 A Present from Petros, illus. Dimitris Davis
      1964 Twenty-Two Bears, illus. Wiese
      1966 Yeshu, Called Jesus, illus. Donald Bolognese
      1968 Mozart: Music Magician, illus. Paul Frame
      1971 The Truffle Pig, illus. Wiese
      1972 Johann Sebastian Bach: Music Giant, illus. Russell Hoover
      1973 Georgette, illus. Ursula Landshoff


      = Adult books

      =
      1938 French Children's Books for English-speaking Children (New York: Sheridan Square Press), bibliography, LCCN 39-1262
      1947 France Alive. LCCN 48-5494
      1950 All Things Common. LCCN 50-10448
      1950 Boimondau: A French Community of Work
      1971 Jesus and Israel by Jules Isaac, edited with a foreword by Claire Huchet Bishop; translated form the French by Sally Gran
      1974 How Catholics look at Jews: Inquiries into Italian, Spanish, and French Teaching Materials. LCCN 73-91371


      = Other Writings

      =
      (Editor) Jules Isaac, Has Anti-semitism Roots in Christianity?, National Conference of Christians and Jews, 1961.
      (Editor) Isaac, The Teaching of Contempt, Holt, 1964.
      Poetry to some French avant-garde literary magazines


      Quotes


      "Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians."
      "Those who marry to escape something usually find something else."


      References




      External links



      Claire Huchet Bishop at IMDb
      Clare Huchet Bishop at Library of Congress, with 37 library catalog records
      Works by Claire Huchet Bishop at Open Library

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