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Up the Chimney
The tale of a courageous girl with quick feet and a generous heart.
Up the Chimney is retold by Margaret Hodges from “The Old Witch” in Joseph Jacob’s “More English Folk and Fairy Tales”. New York. Putnam. 1904.
Up the Chimney is retold by Margaret Hodges from “The Old Witch” in Joseph Jacob’s “More English Folk and Fairy Tales”. New York. Putnam. 1904.
- GenresFairy TalesPicture Books
32 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1998
About the author
Margaret Hodges
72 books56 followersMargaret "Peggy" Hodges was an American writer of books for children.
She was born Sarah Margaret Moore in Indianapolis, Indiana to Arthur Carlisle and Annie Marie Moore. She enrolled at Tudor Hall, a college preparatory school for girls. A 1932 graduate of Vassar College, she arrived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with her husband Fletcher Hodges Jr. when in 1937 he became curator at the Stephen Foster Memorial. She trained as a librarian at Carnegie Institute of Technology, now Carnegie Mellon University, under Elizabeth Nesbitt, and she volunteered as a storyteller at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. Beginning in 1958 with One Little Drum, she wrote and published more than 40 books.
Her 1985 book Saint George and the Dragon, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman, won the Caldecott Medal of the American Library Association.
She was a professor of library science at the University of Pittsburgh, where she retired in 1976.
Hodges died of heart disease on December 13, 2005 at her home in Oakmont, Pennsylvania. She suffered from Parkinson's disease.
She wrote her stories on a notepad or a typewriter. "I need good ideas, and they don't come out of machines," she once said.
She was born Sarah Margaret Moore in Indianapolis, Indiana to Arthur Carlisle and Annie Marie Moore. She enrolled at Tudor Hall, a college preparatory school for girls. A 1932 graduate of Vassar College, she arrived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with her husband Fletcher Hodges Jr. when in 1937 he became curator at the Stephen Foster Memorial. She trained as a librarian at Carnegie Institute of Technology, now Carnegie Mellon University, under Elizabeth Nesbitt, and she volunteered as a storyteller at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. Beginning in 1958 with One Little Drum, she wrote and published more than 40 books.
Her 1985 book Saint George and the Dragon, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman, won the Caldecott Medal of the American Library Association.
She was a professor of library science at the University of Pittsburgh, where she retired in 1976.
Hodges died of heart disease on December 13, 2005 at her home in Oakmont, Pennsylvania. She suffered from Parkinson's disease.
She wrote her stories on a notepad or a typewriter. "I need good ideas, and they don't come out of machines," she once said.
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December 28, 2021
I liked the format of the nice girl attending to the bread, cow, and apple tree and then them helping hide her when she's hiding from the witch--makes for memorable storytelling. I didn't find the rhyme easy to remember, and the girl seems to the think a bad fate is in store if the witch catches her, but it ends up being not that bad (the witch just takes the money back and chases her away with a broom).
April 1, 2022
Story was good, pictures blah. My kids really liked the story though, and the repeating rhyming makes for a fun read aloud.
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February 18, 2011Traditional English Folktale
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