Claire Huchet Bishop

Claire Huchet Bishop (30 December 1898 – 13 March 1993) was a Swiss children's writer and librarian. She wrote two Newbery Medal runners-up, Pancakes-Paris and All Alone (1953), and she won the Josette Frank Award for Twenty and Ten (1952). Her first English-language children's book became a classic: The Five Chinese Brothers, illustrated by Kurt Wiese and published in 1938, was named to the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award list in 1959.

Life Claire Huchet was born in Geneva, Switzerland and grew up in France or Geneva. She attended the Sorbonne and started the first children's library in France. and was an apologist for Roman Catholicism and an opponent

After residing in New York for 50 years, Bishop returned to France and died in Paris in 1993. 1953 All Alone, illus. Feodor Rojankovsky 1954 Martín de Porres, Hero, illus. Jean Charlot – about Saint Martín de Porres 1955 The Big Loop, illus. Carles Fontserè – about the Tour de France 1956 Happy Christmas: Tales for Boys and Girls, edited by Bishop, illus. Ellen Raskin 1957 Toto's Triumph, illus. Claude Ponsot 1960 French Roundabout, 360 pp. illus. – LCSH France—Description and travel, ; revised 1966 1960 Lafayette: French-American Hero, illus. Maurice Brevannes 1961 A Present from Petros, illus. Dimitris Davis 1964 Twenty-Two Bears, illus. Wiese 1966 Yeshu, Called Jesus, illus. Donald Bolognese 1968 Mozart: Music Magician, illus. Paul Frame 1971 The Truffle Pig, illus. Wiese 1972 Johann Sebastian Bach: Music Giant, illus. Russell Hoover 1973 Georgette, illus. Ursula Landshoff

Adult books 1938 French Children's Books for English-speaking Children (New York: Sheridan Square Press), bibliography, 1947 France Alive. 1950 All Things Common. 1950 Boimondau: A French Community of Work 1971 Jesus and Israel by Jules Isaac, edited with a foreword by Claire Huchet Bishop; translated from French by Sally Gran 1974 How Catholics look at Jews: Inquiries into Italian, Spanish, and French Teaching Materials.

Other Writings (Editor) Jules Isaac, Has Anti-semitism Roots in Christianity?, National Conference of Christians and Jews, 1961. (Editor) Isaac, The Teaching of Contempt, Holt, 1964. Poetry to some French avant-garde literary magazines "Those who marry to escape something usually find something else."