Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars by Ellen MacGregor

MacGregor began to write for publication in 1946. She did research in children's literature for Scott, Foresman, and Company served as the serials librarian of the Chicago Undergraduate Division of the University of Illinois and was an editor of the Illinois Women's Press *ociation monthly bulletin, Pen Points. She worked in Florida as a librarian at the Naval Operating Base in Key West, and organized and administered the library at the Naval Air Technical Training Center. She supervised the compilation of the Union Catalog of Art in Chicago and was a research librarian with International Harvester in Chicago, Illinois. She was a librarian for the elementary schools of the Central Hawaii School district and a cataloguer in the Hilo Library in Hawaii. She worked in numerous libraries, wrote several well-received children's books and numerous magazine articles, and died in 1954 at the age of 47. She did postgraduate work in science at the University of California, Berkeley. She attended the University of Washington in Seattle, receiving a Bachelor of Science in library science in 1926. and was educated in schools in Garfield and Kent, Washington. She was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to George Malcolm MacGregor and Charlotte Genevieve Noble MacGregor. She is known best for the Miss Pickerell series of children's novels. H.U.M.Ellen MacGregor (– March 29, 1954) was an American children's writer.

Miss Pickerell and the Weather Satellite (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971) with Dora Pantell.

Miss Pickerell Harvests the Sea (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968) with Dora Pantell.

Miss Pickerell Goes on a Dig (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1966) with Dora Pantell.

Miss Pickerell on the Moon (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1965) with Dora Pantell.

Miss Pickerell Goes to the Arctic (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1954).

Miss Pickerell Goes Undersea (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1953).

Miss Pickerell and the Geiger Counter (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1953).

Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1951).

For convenience, all titles are given below. Following the author's early death, the series was continued after a gap of eleven years by Dora Pantell, who at least initially used MacGregor's story notes, and signed herself in collaboration with the elder writer until 1983.

Lavinia Pickerell, a highly adventurous New England spinster, finds herself travelling to Mars, Under the Sea, and elsewhere her interest in these adventures is always focused on their scientific implications, and she learns a great deal about the theory and mechanics of Space Flight.

(1906-1954) US author of children's fiction, most notably the Miss Pickerell sequence beginning with Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars (May 1950 Liberty Magazine as 'Swept Her Into Space' much exp 1951).

Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars by Ellen MacGregor