Claire Huchet Bishop (1899 – 13 March 1993) was a children's novelist and librarian, winner of the Newbery Honor for Pancakes-Paris and All Alone and the Josette Frank Award for Twenty and Ten. The Five Chinese Brothers won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1959.
Children's books[edit]
- 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)[7]
- 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
- 1950 All Things Common
- 1950 Boimondau: A French Community of Work
- 1971 Jesus and Israel Jules Isaac
- 1974 How Catholics look at Jews: Inquiries into Italian, Spanish, and French Teaching Materials
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[5]
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