ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND HER TIMES
Alison Uttley was born in England in 1884 and lived through two world wars and a massive evolution of technology. Growing up, she loved science and even earned a scholarship and became the second woman ever to graduate with a Physics degree from Manchester University with honors. She went on to earn a teaching degree at Harvard and married the brother of a good friend she knew at college.
Sadly, her husband suffered mentally after his experiences in World War I and took his own life, leaving Alison along to raise her young son. That is how she began writing stories for children.
“Why do children love them? Because I believe in them.
Alison Uttley on her books
Mine aren’t made up. They are real…I don’t sit down to write a story, they come.”
Alison Uttley’s Little Grey Rabbit was an absolute favorite of mine as a child. I read a ton of books by British authors as a child that sadly led to a childhood run in with my grade school teachers who marked my spelling tests wrong for the British spelling of words like grey and colours. I resisted because that was how the words were spelled in my reading books and, well, long story short, I remember the humiliation even today.
A FEW OF THE BOOKS THAT ALISON UTTLEY WROTE FOR CHILDREN (my favorites)
- Little Grey Rabbit Series including my favorite: The Story of Fuzzypeg the Hedgehog
- Little Red Fox Series
- Little Brown Mouse Series
- Tim Rabbit Series
- Sam Pig Series
- The Country Child
- Ambush of Young Days
- The Farm on the Hill
- Country Hoard
- Country Things
- Carts and Candlesticks
- Macduff
- Plowmen’s Clocks
- The Stuff of Dreams
- Here’s a New Day
- A Year in the Country
- The Swans Fly Over
- Something for Nothing
- Wild Honey
- Cuckoo in June
- A Peck of Gold
- The Button-Box and Other Essays
- A Ten O’Clock Scholar and Other Essays
- Secret Places and Other Essays
- Country World: Memoirs of Childhood null
- Buckinghamshire
- Recipes From an Old Farmhouse
- Candlelight Tales
- Nine Starlight Tales
- Ten Candlelight Tales (selections from “Candlelight Tales”)
- The Spice Woman’s Basket and Other Tales
- Some Moonshine Tales
- The Weather Cock and Other Stories
- John Barleycorn: Twelve Tales of Fairy and Magic
- The Cobbler’s Shop and Other Tales
- Magic in My Pocket: A Selection of Tales
- The Little Knife Who Did All the Work: Twelve Tales of Magic
- Lavender Shoes: Eight Tales of Enchantment
- Moonshine and Magic
- The Adventures of Peter and Judy in Bunnyland
- Mustard, Pepper and Salt
- High Meadows
- A Traveller in Time
- Cuckoo Cherry-Tree
- Mrs Nimble and Mr Bumble
- When All is Done
- The Washerwoman’s Child: A Play on the Life and Stories of Hans Christian Andersen
- John at the Old Farm
- The Mouse, the Rabbit and the Little White Hen
- Enchantment
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KRISTEN HEIDER AT A MOM’S QUEST TO TEACH
LORI HOOTEN AT AT HOME: WHERE LIFE HAPPENS
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3 Responses
She wrote a lot of books! So sad to hear about her husband. So many good men suffered because no one believed they had problems when the came home from WWI.
And I get the whole spelling thing. I still spell it both grey and gray at times.
what a good selection of books she wrote eh? Some of them sound very familiar. AND YAY!!! You learned to spell the correct way. 🙂 British rules, rule!
I have not heard of this author but am very intrigued. I will be looking her up at the library.