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Mary Ann Hoberman

1930 – 2023

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About Mary Ann Hoberman

Lived 1930 – 2023 (aged 92). Mary Ann Hoberman was an American children's writer and writer.

Awards 1978 National Book Award (A House Is a House for Me) 2003 National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children 2004 National Outdoor Book Award (Whose Garden Is It?)

Books

Author All My Shoes Come in Twos (1957) How Do I Go? (1958) Hello and Good-by (1959) What Jim Knew (1963) Not Enough Beds for the Babies (1965) The Looking Book (1973) A Little Book of Little Beasts (1973) The Raucous Auk: A Menagerie of Poems (1973) Nuts to You & Nuts to Me: An Alphabet of Poems (1974) I Like Old Clothes (1976) Bugs (1976) A House is a House for Me (1978) Yellow Butter, Purple Jelly, Red Jam, Black Bread (1981) The Cozy Book (1982) Mr. and Mrs. Muddle (1988) Fathers, Mothers, Sisters, Brothers: A Collection of Family Poems (1991) A Fine Fat Pig, and Other Animal Poems (1991) The Seven Silly Eaters (1997) One of Each (1997) Miss Mary Mack (1998) The Llama Who Had No Pajama: 100 Favorite Poems (1998) And to Think that We Thought that We'd Never be Friends (1999) The Two Sillies (2000) The Eensy-Weensy Spider (2000) There Once Was a Man Named Michael Finnegan (2001) Whose Garden is It? (2001) It's Simple, Said Simon (2001) You Read to Me, I'll Read to You: Very Short Stories to Read Together (2001) The Marvelous Mouse Man (2002) Right Outside My Window (2002) Bill Grogan's Goat (2002) Mary Had a Little Lamb (2003) Yankee Doodle (2004) You Read to Me, I'll Read to You: Very Short Fairy Tales to Read Together (2004) The Wheels on the Bus (2005) You Read to Me, I'll Read to You: Very Short Mother Goose Tales to Read Together (2005) I'm Going to Grandma's (2007) Mrs. O’Leary's Cow (2007) You Read to Me, I'll Read to You: Very Short Scary Tales to Read Together (2009) All Kinds of Families! (2009) Strawberry Hill (2009)

Editor My Song is Beautiful: Poems and Pictures in Many Voices (1994) The Tree That Time Built: A Celebration of Nature, Science and Imagination (2009) Forget-Me-Nots: Poems to Learn by Heart (2012) - Hoberman chose the poems, and Michael Emberley made the book's illustrations.

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Important facts

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Education
Yale University, Smith College

Family & relationships

Child
Chuck Hoberman
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Frequently asked questions

Who was Mary Ann Hoberman?

writer

When was Mary Ann Hoberman born?

Mary Ann Hoberman was born on 12 August 1930 in Stamford.

When did Mary Ann Hoberman die?

Mary Ann Hoberman died on 7 July 2023 in Greenwich.

What was Mary Ann Hoberman's occupation?

Mary Ann Hoberman was a children's writer and writer.

What nationality was Mary Ann Hoberman?

Mary Ann Hoberman was American.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Mary Ann Hoberman

· Wikidata: Q18686889

· DBpedia: Mary Ann Hoberman

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