The Great Gale 1960 (illustrated by Joan Kiddell-Monroe)Ĭastors Away 1962 (illustrated by Victor Ambrus) In 1963 she was awarded the Carnegie Medal for Children’s Literature for her story “Time of Trial”. For a while she was a part-time grammar school teacher and the Assistant Editor of the Oxford Junior Encyclopaedia.īetween 19 she produced eighteen books for children, most of them for the Oxford University Press and many of them illustrated by the incomparable Victor Ambrus. She attended Headington School Oxford between 19 and then Oxford University between 19 when she received a honours degree in English. Hester Wood-Hill was born on the 6th December, 1913 at Beccles in Suffolk. HESTER BURTON British Author, 1913 - 2000
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