Helen Cresswell [SEP] cause of death
71, from ovarian cancer.
Writer.
Cresswell had great "popular impact" because she "diversified into writing for television, in 1960, with a script for what was then called Jack Playhouse, bringing simple storytelling to BBC children's TV."
She tried writing for adults but succeeded with the child audience. Her first book was published in 1960, "Sonya-by-the-Shore", and the Jumbo Spencer series followed. Yet she considered herself a poet until "The Piemakers" (
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