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Sylvia Cassedy (January 29, 1930 – April 6, 1989) was an American novelist and poet, who is best known for her children's and young adult fiction.

Sylvia Cassedy
Born	(1930-01-29)January 29, 1930 Brooklyn, NY
Died	April 6, 1989(1989-04-06) (aged 59) Manhasset, NY
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Brooklyn College
Genre	Children's and young adult fiction

Life

Cassedy was born January 29, 1930, in Brooklyn, New York.[1] She graduated from Brooklyn College, and worked as a primary and secondary school teacher.[2]

Cassedy is known for her young adult novels.[1][2][3] Her three novels Behind the Attic Wall, M.E. and Morton, and Lucie Babbidge's House feature preadolescent girls as protagonists, who use fantasy and play to improve their circumstances.[2][4]

Besides her young adult novels, Cassedy wrote two volumes of poetry. She translated collections of poems from India and from Japan. Based on her teaching experience, she wrote a guide to creative writing In Your Own Words: a Beginner's Guide to Writing.[2]

Cassedy died April 6, 1989, in Manhasset, NY.[1] Her collected papers are held by the University of Minnesota.[5]

Awards

Cassedy's book Lucie Babbidge's House was named an honor book (runner-up) for the Phoenix Award of the Children's Literature Association in 2009.[6]

Selected works

Children's and young adult fiction

• Behind the Attic Wall (HarperCollins, 1985). ISBN 0380698439[7]
• M.E. and Morton (HarperCollins, 1987). ISBN 069004562X[8]
• Lucie Babbidge's House (HarperCollins, 1989). ISBN 038071812X[9]
• The Best Cat Suit of All (Dial Books, 1991). Illustrated by Rosekrans Hoffman. ISBN 0803705166[10]

Instructional

• In Your Own Words: A Beginner's Guide to Writing (Doubleday, 1979). ISBN 0385140371[11]

Poetry

• Roomrimes: Poems (Crowell, 1987). Illustrated by Michele Chessare. ISBN 0690044666[12]
• Zoomrimes: Poems about Things that Go (HarperCollins, 1993). Illustrated by Michele Chessare. ISBN 0060226331[13]

Translation

• Red Dragonfly on my Shoulder, with Kunihiro Suetake (HarperCollins, 1992). Illustrated by Molly Bang. ISBN 0060226242[14]
  Revised and retitled from Birds, Frogs, and Moonlight by the same authors (Doubleday, 1967). Illustrated by Vo-Dinh.[2]
• Moon-Uncle, Moon-Uncle, with Parvathi Thampi (Doubleday, 1972). Illustrated by Susanne Suba. ISBN 0385029632[15]

References

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