AP New Jersey reports Catherine Woolley, the author of 87 children’s books enjoyed by young readers around the globe, died Saturday at her home in Truro, on Cape Cod. She was 100.
Woolley, who was so prolific that her publisher advised her to use a pen name, continued to write into her 90s, said her niece, Betsy Drinkwater of Enfield, N.H., but had been in failing health in recent years.
Jane Thayer
Her pen name sounded familiar but the only book I’ve found that I remember is Gus and the Baby Ghost.
Re:Jane Thayer
I remember The Popcorn Dragon and The Puppy Who Wanted a Boy. These are still reasonably popular picture books, since they were republished with new illustrations in the late 1980’s.