Happy 90th, Frances Wosmek! (Artist/writer, "Twinkle Tots,..

Born in Minnesota, she now lives in Gloucester, Massachusetts.

She received a special Edgar Allan Poe Award for Mystery of the
Eagle's Claw.

http://www.franceswosmek.com/about.html
(Her "Personal Narrative" - with photos)

http://www.franceswosmek.com/unp-children.html
(unpublished short stories & poems)

http://www.franceswosmek.com/pub-books.html
(book covers & descriptions - she REALLY shifted literary gears after
the 1960s, as you'll see. The older cover designs she did are, well,
cutesy.)

Her site includes an email address!

She's also written poems for the Christian Science Monitor.

In "Stump the Bookseller":

"I've just solved the mystery! This proves that Sky High & Twinkle
Tots are essentially the same book. The only differences are the
title, and the fact that the words 'angel children' are changed to
'Twinkle Tots'. The rhymes and illustrations are identical. It
appears that Sky High was the North American version, and Twinkle Tots
was the version published in England and Australia."


WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:
FOR CHILDREN; SELF-ILLUSTRATED

* Sky High, John Martin's House, 1949.

* Twinkle Tot Tales, Lowe, 1949.

* Cuddles and His Friends, Lowe, 1949.

* A Bowl of Sun, Children's Press (Chicago, IL), 1976.

* The ABC of Ecology, May Davenport (Los Altos Hills, CA), 1981.

* It's Nice to Be Nice, Kiddie Products, 1983.

FOR CHILDREN


* Little Dog, Little Dog, Rand McNally (Chicago, IL), 1963.

* (Under name Frances Brailsford) In the Space of a Wink,
illustrations by Ati Forberg, Follet, 1969.

* Never Mind Murder, Westminster (Philadelphia, PA), 1977.

* Mystery of the Eagle's Claw, Westminster, 1979.

* Let's Make Music, Houghton (Boston, MA), 1981.

* A Brown Bird Singing, Lothrop (New York, NY), 1986.

* Neighbors, Font & Center Press, 1993.

ILLUSTRATOR


* Edith May Lowe, Throughout the Day, John Martin's House, 1949.

* Rosemary Smith Fitzgerald, Bobby and Buttons, Garden City Books,
1949.

* Josephine Van Dolzen Pease, One, Two, Cock-a-Doodle-Do, Rand
McNally, 1950.

* Edith Lowe, The Magic Sprinkling Can - A So-Big Book, 1950.

* Helen Earle Gilbert, Go to Sleep Book, Rand McNally, 1969.



Lenona.