
Helen Dean Fish
7 February 1889 – 6 February 1953
14 works on record
Biography
Helen Dean Fish was born in Hempstead, Long Island. In 1912 she graduated from Wellesley College in Massachusetts. After graduating, she taught at the Asheville Home School for Girls in Asheville, North Carolina. In 1914 she studied playwriting at Radcliffe College in Massachusetts. In 1915 she moved to New York City and began working with drama clubs. In 1917 she became a manuscript reader at the Frederick A. Stokes Co., and in 1922 she was appointed their first children's book editor. She remained in that position when Stokes was merged with J. B. Lippincott in 1941, and she continued in it until her death at age 64.
In 1937, she published Animals of the Bible, a collection of Bible verses selected by her and illustrated by Dorothy Lathrop, which won the first Caldecott Medal ever awarded. She wrote several children's books and one book for adults.
Works

The boy's book of verse

Invitation to travel

When the root children wake up

Four and Twenty Blackbirds

Animals of the Bible
The Little Princess in the Wood
The Little Princess in the Wood
Animals of American history
Animals of American history
Invitation to England
Invitation to England
The doll house book
The doll house book
Boy's Book of Verse an Anthology
Boy's Book of Verse an Anthology
The little book of colors
The little book of colors
Butterfly land
Butterfly land
The children's almanac of books and holidays
The children's almanac of books and holidays
Pegs of history
Pegs of history