She used notes left by Ellen MacGregor to create further Miss Pickerell novels until 1986. McGraw-Hill, her publishers, searched unsuccessfully for someone to continue the series until 1964, when they selected Dora Pantell, a social worker and textbooks writer. Three more Miss Pickerel novels followed before Ellen MacGregor's early death at age 47. The books provided children with enjoyable fantasy literature containing accurate scientific facts. The first in the series of science fiction novels for children for which Ellen MacGregor became famous, Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars, appeared in 1951. In 1950, she began to publish comic short stories about the extraordinary and amazing travels of a prim New England spinster named Miss Lavinia Pickerell. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. She was an editor of the Illinois Women’s Press Association’s monthly bulletin, Pen Points. Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars - Kindle edition by MacGregor, Ellen. In her career as a librarian, she worked in many locations including Hilo, Hawaii Chicago, Illinois and Key West, Florida. She also did postgraduate work in science at the University of California, Berkeley. She attended the University of Washington at Seattle, where she received a bachelor of science degree in library sciences in 1926. Ellen MacGregor was born in Baltimore, Maryland and educated in schools in Garfield and Kent, Washington.
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