![]() The Blue Teapot (1931), Relief’s Rocker (1932), and Roundabout (1934) were all set in Sandy Cove, N.S., where Dalgliesh spent summers as a child. She became a United States citizen in 1928.ĭalgliesh’s first book was A Happy School Year (1924), a reader that featured the antics of her students. ![]() Dalgliesh instructed children for almost 17 years, and she later taught a course in children’s literature at Columbia. Dalgliesh went on to receive a bachelor’s degree in education at Columbia University in New York and then a master’s degree in literature. When she was 19 she traveled to the United States and trained to become a kindergarten teacher. Her mother was English and her father was Scottish, and when Alice was 13 her family moved to England. She started writing stories when she was 8. ![]() Her stories often drew on her own life experiences, which took place on four continents.Īlice Dalgliesh was born on the island of Trinidad in what was then called the British West Indies, on Oct. author and editor Alice Dalgliesh wrote more than 40 books for and about children. ![]()
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