Betsy byars books

Born , in Charlotte, NC; Education: Attended Furman University, ; Queens College, Charlotte, NC, B.A., Hobbies and other interests: Gliding, flying airplanes, reading, traveling, music, needlepoint, crosswords.

Career

Children's book author.

Honors Awards

Book of the Year selection, Child Study Association of America, , for The Midnight Fox, , for Trouble River, , for The Summer of the Swans, , for The House of Wings, , for The Winged Colt of Casa Mia and The Eighteenth Emergency, , for After the Goat Man, , for The Lace Snail, , for The TV Kid, and , for The Night Swimmers; Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, , for The Midnight Fox; Newbery Medal, , for The Summer of the Swans; Dorothy Canfield Fisher Memorial Book Award, Vermont Congress of Parents and Teachers, , for The Eighteenth Emergency; Woodward Park School Annual Book Award, , Child Study Children Book Award, Child Study Children's Book Committee at Bank Street Co