Barbara Brooks Wallace
(1922 - 2018)Barbara Brooks Wallace was an award-winning American children's writer. She received, among others, the NLAPW Children's Book Award and International Youth Library "Best of the Best" for Claudia, as well as the William Allen White Children's Book Award for Peppermints in the Parlor.
Wallace was born and spent her childhood in China, but then moved to the United States. San Francisco was often a port of entry for her family, who lived in a huge, white-pillared mansion on the side of a hill, later to become the Sugar Hill Hall mansion which served as the setting for some of her most popular books. She was a UCLA graduate.
Wallace won two Edgar Allan Poe Awards from the Mystery Writers of America for The Twin in the Tavern and for Sparrows in the Scullery. Cousins in The Castle and Ghosts in the Gallery were also nominated for an Edgar Award.
Wallace's books are often compared to those by Lemony Snicket, as well as Beverly Cleary and four-time Edgar-recipient Joan Lowery Nixon.
Wallace was born and spent her childhood in China, but then moved to the United States. San Francisco was often a port of entry for her family, who lived in a huge, white-pillared mansion on the side of a hill, later to become the Sugar Hill Hall mansion which served as the setting for some of her most popular books. She was a UCLA graduate.
Wallace won two Edgar Allan Poe Awards from the Mystery Writers of America for The Twin in the Tavern and for Sparrows in the Scullery. Cousins in The Castle and Ghosts in the Gallery were also nominated for an Edgar Award.
Wallace's books are often compared to those by Lemony Snicket, as well as Beverly Cleary and four-time Edgar-recipient Joan Lowery Nixon.
Genres: Inspirational, Children's Fiction
Series
Miss Switch
1. The Trouble with Miss Switch (1971)
2. Miss Switch to the Rescue! (1981)
3. Miss Switch Online (2002)
4. Miss Switch and the Vile Villains (2012)
5. Miss Switch's Bathsheba & The Cat Caper (2013)
1. The Trouble with Miss Switch (1971)
2. Miss Switch to the Rescue! (1981)
3. Miss Switch Online (2002)
4. Miss Switch and the Vile Villains (2012)
5. Miss Switch's Bathsheba & The Cat Caper (2013)
Novels
Andrew, the Big Deal (1970)
Victoria (1972)
Can Do, Missy Charlie (1974)
The Secret Summer of L. E. B (1974)
Julia and the Third Bad Thing (1975)
Palmer Patch (1976)
The Barrel in the Basement (1985)
Cousins In The Castle (1986)
The Interesting Thing That Happened At Perfect Acres, Inc (1988)
The Twin in the Tavern (1993)
Sparrows in the Scullery (1997)
Ghosts in the Gallery (2000)
Secret in St. Something (2001)
Have Dragon, Will Travel (2009)
Diary Of A Little Devil (2011)
Dragon For Hire (2016)
All About Max (2017)
Seeking Nip and Tuck (2017)
Victoria (1972)
Can Do, Missy Charlie (1974)
The Secret Summer of L. E. B (1974)
Julia and the Third Bad Thing (1975)
Palmer Patch (1976)
The Barrel in the Basement (1985)
Cousins In The Castle (1986)
The Interesting Thing That Happened At Perfect Acres, Inc (1988)
The Twin in the Tavern (1993)
Sparrows in the Scullery (1997)
Ghosts in the Gallery (2000)
Secret in St. Something (2001)
Have Dragon, Will Travel (2009)
Diary Of A Little Devil (2011)
Dragon For Hire (2016)
All About Max (2017)
Seeking Nip and Tuck (2017)
Picture Books show
Non fiction show
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