Edward Ormondroyd

Edward Ormondroyd (October 8, 1925 – September 14, 2025) was an American writer of children's books. He is best known for David and the Phoenix, a fantasy novel. His time travel novel Time at the Top was filmed for television in 1999.

Life and career Ormondroyd was born in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania on October 8, 1925. He grew up in Pennsylvania and Michigan, before serving two years on a destroyer escort in World War II. Ormondroyd participated in the invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Joan Ormondroyd died on January 10, 2024, at the age of 93. Edward Ormondroyd died on September 14, 2025, at the age of 99.

Works Source: Loganberry Books. Theodore, illus. John M. Larrecq (Parnassus, 1966) Michael, the Upstairs Dog, illus. Cyndy Szekeres (Dial Press, 1967) Broderick, illus. Larrecq (Parnassus, 1969) Theodore's Rival, illus. Larrecq (Parnassus, 1971) Castaways on Long Ago, illus. Ruth Robbins (Parnassus, 1973) Imagination Greene, illus. John Lewis (Parnassus, 1973) All in Good Time, illus. Robbins (Parnassus, 1975) – sequel to Time at the Top Johnny Castleseed, illus. Diana Thewlis (Houghton Mifflin, 1985)