Rosemary Harris (writer)
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Rosemary Jeanne Harris (born in 1923) is a British writer of fiction for children.
Rosemary Harris studied at the Chelsea School of Art and the Courtald Institue, both in London. She has served in the Red Cross Nursing Auxiliary during WWII, and has worked as a picture restorer, a reader for Metro-Goldwyn-Myer, and a children's book reviewer for the Times.
Rosemary Harris won the Carnegie Medal in 1968 för "The Moon in the Cloud".
[edit] Selected works
- The Moon in the Cloud
- The Shadow on the Sun (1970)
- The Bright and Morning Star
- Summers of the Wild Rose (1987)
- Zed (1982)
- The Seal-Singing (1971)
- The Child in the Bamboo Grove, illustrated by Errol Le Cain (1971)
- Sea Magic and Other Stories of Enchantment (1974)
- Flying Ship (1975)
- Little Dog of Fo, illustrated by Errol Le Cain (1976)
- I Want to Be a Fish (1977)
- King's White Elephant (1973)
- Beauty and the Beast, illustrated by Errol Le Cain (1979)
- Tower of the Stars (1980)
- Janni's Stork (1984)
- A Quest for Orion (1988)
- Love and the Merrygoround (1988)
- Lotus and the Grail: Legends from East to West (1985)
- Ticket to Freedom (1992)
- Haunting of Joey Mbasa (1996)
