Miss Pickerell Harvests the Sea

Miss Pickerell #7

by Ellen MacGregor, Dora Pantell, Charles Geer (Illustrator)

The heroine helps her friend Mr. Rugby in his latest project of ocean farming and tries to save it from failure

Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Childrens

144 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1968

About the author

Ellen MacGregor (1906 - 1954) was an American author, primarily of children's literature. After a varied career in numerous libraries and publishing several well-received children's books, as well as numerous magazine articles, she died in 1954 at the age of 47.

MacGregor's goal was to provide fantasy literature with correct (for the time) scientific facts that would appeal to children. The first appearance of Miss Pickerell, her famous and quirky major character was in a short story, Swept Her into Space, published in Liberty in 1950. She expanded it to book length, published in 1951 as Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars, a science fiction novel for children.

Reviews

[Sarah Sammis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Miss Pickerell Harvests the Sea by Ellen MacGregor and Dora Pantell is the seventh in the Miss Pickerell books. Ellen MacGregor died in 1954, so only the first four were written by her.

Miss Pickerell is an elderly woman of enough means to travel the country while indulging her interest in science. As she also seems to have a large extended family without having children of her own, she's a prototype for Jessica Fletcher.

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[Herb · Rating 4 out of 5]

This series is so very cute..if you like children's books from the '50's and '60's..Miss Pickerell is certainly an eccentric old dear, but lots of fun as well.