Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars by Ellen MacGregor

Inadvertently whisked off on a history making flight to Mars. This short story became in 1951 Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars, a scienceįiction book abourt Miss Pickerell, who in trying to protect her cow, was Miss Pickerell’s first appearance was in a short story, “Swept her into Submitted for a class at the Midwestern Writers Conference was published as theīook Tommy and the Telephone. It was not until 1946 that Ellen MacGregor began Illinois and as editor of the Illinois Women’s Press Association’s monthly

Serials librarian of the Chicago Undergraduate Division of the University of In children’s literature for Scott, Foresman, and company has served as West organizing and administering the library for the Naval Air Technical Of Art in Chicago serving as librarian of the Naval Operating Base in Key Some of these interesting jobs included servingĪs librarian for the elementary schools of the Central Hawaii School districtĪnd as cataloger in the Hilo (Hawaii) Library supervising the people who compiled the Union Cataglog Training as a librarian was to be the key to many interesting jobs, to manyĮnriching experiences, and to many happy associations.” Librarian until something more interesting came along. Nevertheless it was withĪ slight lack of personal enthusiasm that I fell in with their plans for my Also there was much, much reading alound. With a lovely feeling for the ridiculous. Her parents “had an exquisite sense of fun, MacGregor were influential in theirĭaughter’s choice of careers both as a librarian and as a writer. Library Science in 1926 and in 1931 she did postgraduate work in science at theĭr. She majored in science at the University of Washington, earned a B.S. The many happy summers of her childhood were Here, they lived first in Garfield, then in Kent, where Ellen MacGregor went to high school. Younger two were boys) to the state of Washington. Returned briefly to Wisconsin, then moved with their three children (the Hopkins, Charlotte Noble was traveling from one Wisconsin town to another,Īfter living in Baltimore, the MacGregors Shortly before George MacGregor was graduated from Johns Hopkins Medical Of two of the high schools in a small Wisconsin town, but did not marry until Her parents met when they became the faculty The creator of the popular Miss Pickerell was born in Baltimore, Maryland.

Whose name and experience they know as well as those of President Eisenhower. Mother or father, and they beam and immediately talk about Miss Pickerell,

Mention Miss MacGregor’s name to an eight year old or to his Writer of science fiction for younger children. Reprinted from Wilson Library Bulletin April 1954īulletin: Ellen MacGregor died on March 29, 1954Įllen MacGregor has been recognized as the first

Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars by Ellen MacGregor