A book of modern stories

by Hester Burton

157 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1972

About the author

Hester Wood-Hill was born on the 6th December, 1913 at Beccles in Suffolk.. She attended Headington School Oxford between 1925 and 1931 and then Oxford University between 1932 and 1936 when she received a honours degree in English. In 1937 she married Reginad W.B. Burton and had three daughters. For a while she was a part-time grammar school teacher and the Assistant Editor of the Oxford Junior Encyclopaedia.

Between 1960 and 1981 she produced eighteen books for children, most of them for the Oxford University Press and many of them illustrated by the incomparable Victor Ambrus. In 1963 she was awarded the Carnegie Medal for Children’s Literature for her story “Time of Trial”. Hester Burton died in 2000.

Reviews

[Farah Mendlesohn · Rating 4 out of 5]

From the days when books for teens meant selecting the best of authors writing for adults. Stories by Katherine Mansfield, Ray Bradbury, Naomi Mitchison and Doris Lessing among others.