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Erick Berry

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Erick Berry


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New Bedford, Massachusetts, The United States
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Allena Champlin Berry Best (January 4, 1892 -February 1974) was an American illustrator, author, and fashion designer.

She wrote under the names Erick Berry & Anne Maxon.

Allena Champlin grew up in Albany & studied at the Eric Pape School in Boston and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. After working as a commercial artist, she went to further her studies in Paris, and then travelled in West Africa. It was there that she met her second husband, the writer Herbert Best, who worked for the British Government. She illustrated all of his children’s books, and most of her own.

Erick Berry wrote or illustrated over 100 books. Her most notable titles were Winged Girl of Knossos, which she wrote and illustrated, and which was the recipient of a 1
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Average rating: 3.57 · 220 ratings · 66 reviews · 95 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Winged Girl of Knossos

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3.64 avg rating — 103 ratings — published 1933 — 7 editions
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Leif The Lucky: Discoverer ...

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Cynthia Steps Out

3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1937 — 11 editions
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Honey of the Nile

4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1963 — 8 editions
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Robert E. Peary: North Pole...

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1963 — 5 editions
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Nancy Herself

2.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1938 — 3 editions
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When Wagon Trains Rolled to...

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Underwater warriors; story ...

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1967 — 2 editions
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The Land and People of Finl...

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1989 — 5 editions
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1969
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