Carolyn Sherwin Bailey

She was born in Hoosick Falls, New York and attended Lansingburgh Academy of History, Teachers College of Columbia University, the Montessori School in Rome and the New York School of Social Work. Following several years of teaching and social work she became an editor, first on “Delineator” and then on “American Childhood.” ==Career==

Bailey contributed to the ''Ladies' Home Journal and other magazines. She published volumes of stories for children like methods of story telling, teaching children and other related subjects, which include Boys and Girls of Colonial Days (1917), Broad Stripes and Bright Stars (1919), Hero Stories (1919); Tops and Whistles (1937), and The Little Rabbit Who Wanted Red Wings (1945). She wrote For the Children's Hour'' (1906) in collaboration with Clara M. Lewis. She also wrote on arts and crafts and her works Children of the Handcrafts (1935), Tops and Whistles, Stories of Early American Toys and Children (1937), Homespun Playdays (1940), and Pioneer Art in America (1944), are thought by some critics to be her finest achievements. In 1947, her book Miss Hickory won the Newbery Medal. ==References==