![]() Around 1998 she had a penguin suit, and when she made a trip to Antarctica she was asked to wear it when talking to the personnel at Scott Base. She was a private person but a happy entertainer she gave talks all over the world because she was not good at saying no - just as she answered every child’s letter, probably with a little drawing at the bottom, of a cat or an alligator. There had been a green wig first, and she was quite relieved when she lost it, but popular demand made another one necessary. She even looked like one, in that cape and broad-brimmed hat sometimes, or in the multicolored wig she wore to talk to schoolchildren or to recite her celebrated 1991 poem “Bubble Trouble” (later a picture book). ![]() “I have been such a tradesman all my professional writing life,” she said once. ![]() Other amazing children’s writers have won the Hans Christian Andersen Award, but none had her extra‑ordinary range: verse picture-book texts books for every conceivable age group scripts for radio, television, film serials for newspapers and magazines. ![]()
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