Lilian Moore

Lilian Moore was born in New York City on 17 March 1909. She was educated in Hunter College where she graduated with a bachelor in Arts in 1930. She then continued with some graduate work in Columbia University. Moore became an elementary teacher working with illiterate children which encouraged her to go work with the Bureau of Educational Research where she trained other teachers to deal with students' reading difficulties. During that time Moore began working on children's readers. She then went to work as an editor for Scholastic Corporation in 1957 until 1967. Moore founded Scholastic's Arrow Book Club in 1957 and the Council on Interracial Books for Children. Her first poetry book came out in 1967. Moore also wrote under the name "Sara Asheron".[1][2][3][4][5]

Moore died in Seattle, Washington on July 20, 2004.[1][2][3][5]

In 1960, Moore won The New York Times Best Books of the Year selection. In 1985, she won the National Council of Teachers of English Award for excellence in poetry for children. Moore also was awarded the Child Study Association Children's Books of the Year five times.[1][2][3][5]

• A Child's First Picture Dictionary (1946)
• Wobbly Wheels (1956)
• Bear Trouble (1960)
• I Feel the Same Way (1967)
• Sam's Place: Poems from the Country (1973)
• Something New Begins (1982)
• I Never Did that Before (1995)
• Mural on Second Avenue, and Other City Poems (2004)