
Sorche Nic Leodhas
20 May 1898 – 14 November 1969
21 works on record
Biography
LeClaire Gowans Alger (May 20, 1898 – November 14, 1969) was an American author better known under her pseudonym Sorche Nic Leodhas, or simply Sorche Leodhas. Born in Youngstown, Ohio, she was a sickly child, eventually being homeschooled. Alger was a known librarian, working from 1915 to 1966, while the imaginary Sorche was a storyteller. She sought out traditional Scottish tales that had never been written down before. She won a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1962 and a Newbery Honor for Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland in 1963. Her book Always Room for One More, illustrated by Nonny Hogrogian, won the 1966 Caldecott Medal.
Works

Kellyburn Braes

Thistle and thyme; tales and legends from Scotland

Scottish ghosts

Heather and broom

Ghosts go haunting

By loch and by lin

Thistle and thyme

Twelve great black cats, and other eerie Scottish tales

Claymore and Kilt

Gaelic ghosts

All in the morning early

Always room for one more

Sea-Spell and Moor-Magic

The Laird of Cockpen
Dougal's wish
Dougal's wish
Le gouvernement révolutionnaire dans les Basses-Pyrénées
Le gouvernement révolutionnaire dans les Basses-Pyrénées
THISTLE AND THYME - Tales and Legends from Scotland
THISTLE AND THYME - Tales and Legends from Scotland
Sea-spell and moor-magic;
Sea-spell and moor-magic;
CLAYMORE AND KILT TALES OF SCOTTISH KINGS AND CASTLES
CLAYMORE AND KILT TALES OF SCOTTISH KINGS AND CASTLES
The golden summer
The golden summer
A scottish songbook
A scottish songbook