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Molly Limbo
When Mr. Means, a miser, decides to buy a haunted house, the ghost, Molly Limbo is happy to have company again, and helps his housekeeper, Mrs. Handy, to clean the place up, but when Mr. Mean fires Mrs. Handy, Molly does not approve and lets him know how she feels.
- GenresPicture BooksChildrens
40 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1996
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About the author
Margaret Hodges
72 books55 followersMargaret "Peggy" Hodges was an American writer of books for children.
She was born Sarah Margaret Moore in Indianapolis, Indiana to Arthur Carlisle and Annie Marie Moore. She enrolled at Tudor Hall, a college preparatory school for girls. A 1932 graduate of Vassar College, she arrived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with her husband Fletcher Hodges Jr. when in 1937 he became curator at the Stephen Foster Memorial. She trained as a librarian at Carnegie Institute of Technology, now Carnegie Mellon University, under Elizabeth Nesbitt, and she volunteered as a storyteller at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. Beginning in 1958 with One Little Drum, she wrote and published more than 40 books.
Her 1985 book Saint George and the Dragon, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman, won the Caldecott Medal of the American Library Association.
She was a professor of library science at the University of Pittsburgh, where she retired in 1976.
Hodges died of heart disease on December 13, 2005 at her home in Oakmont, Pennsylvania. She suffered from Parkinson's disease.
She wrote her stories on a notepad or a typewriter. "I need good ideas, and they don't come out of machines," she once said.
She was born Sarah Margaret Moore in Indianapolis, Indiana to Arthur Carlisle and Annie Marie Moore. She enrolled at Tudor Hall, a college preparatory school for girls. A 1932 graduate of Vassar College, she arrived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with her husband Fletcher Hodges Jr. when in 1937 he became curator at the Stephen Foster Memorial. She trained as a librarian at Carnegie Institute of Technology, now Carnegie Mellon University, under Elizabeth Nesbitt, and she volunteered as a storyteller at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. Beginning in 1958 with One Little Drum, she wrote and published more than 40 books.
Her 1985 book Saint George and the Dragon, illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman, won the Caldecott Medal of the American Library Association.
She was a professor of library science at the University of Pittsburgh, where she retired in 1976.
Hodges died of heart disease on December 13, 2005 at her home in Oakmont, Pennsylvania. She suffered from Parkinson's disease.
She wrote her stories on a notepad or a typewriter. "I need good ideas, and they don't come out of machines," she once said.
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Displaying 1 - 7 of 7 reviews
October 23, 2021
This was lovely! I love benevolent ghost stories. A miserly man buys an old house that is haunted, then hires a widow to help with the house chores. As long as the man is kind to the widow and her family, the ghost is helpful and lovely (but she sure makes a mess when the widow is fired!). I liked the cozy feeling of found-family with neighbors.
October 9, 2017
I really like that when he offers to marry her she goes "I can come back to clean your house, but NO"
September 29, 2022
A nice, friendly ghost story.
December 5, 2012
This is a wonderful tale about a haunted house that really isn't scary. The ghost of a woman haunts a house but doesn't try to make the people leave. Instead we discover that she can be entertaining or helpful if she chooses to be.
Margaret Hodges mentions in an author's note in the beginning of the book that she researched many different folktales before writing this story. The story is engaging and the illustrations are terrific. We really enjoyed reading this book together.
Margaret Hodges mentions in an author's note in the beginning of the book that she researched many different folktales before writing this story. The story is engaging and the illustrations are terrific. We really enjoyed reading this book together.
October 25, 2010
ok story - lovely art work.
March 28, 2018
Rather than scary, this is a very amusing ghost story, accompanied by lively watercolor illustrations. The author gives a short note on her sources for the story, which she has made her own.
July 19, 2013
I read this to my grand-daughter. It has lovely artwork and a story with a subtle moral lesson behind it.
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