George Selden

George Selden (1929–1989) è stato uno scrittore americano noto soprattutto per il suo amato romanzo per ragazzi "The Cricket in Times Square", che ottenne il Newbery Honor nel 1961. Questo intramontabile classico diede vita a una serie di sette libri, tra cui "Tucker's Countryside" e "The Old Meadow", affascinando generazioni di lettori con la sua deliziosa miscela di fantasia e vita quotidiana. L'ispirazione per la storia arrivò a Selden ascoltando il canto di un grillo nella stazione della metropolitana di Times Square, un momento che descrisse come fondamentale per la creazione del racconto. Le sue opere spesso esploravano temi di amicizia e avventura attraverso personaggi animali antropomorfi, dotandoli di emozioni genuine ed esperienze con cui identificarsi.

Nato a Hartford, nel Connecticut, Selden si laureò alla Yale University, dove collaborò con la rivista letteraria dell'ateneo e divenne membro dell'Elizabethan Club. Proseguì gli studi alla Columbia University e trascorse poi un anno a Roma come borsista Fulbright. Durante la sua carriera, Selden scrisse più di quindici libri e due opere teatrali, lasciando un'eredità duratura nella letteratura per l'infanzia. La sua capacità di intrecciare lo straordinario con l'ordinario risuonò profondamente nei lettori, e la sua opera continua a essere celebrata, come dimostra l'adattamento cinematografico animato del 1973 di "The Cricket in Times Square".
Chester Cricket and His Friends Books (with Garth Williams)
# Titolo Anno
1 The Cricket in Times Square 1960
2 Tucker's Countryside 1969
3 Harry Cat's Pet Puppy 1974
4 Chester Cricket's Pigeon Ride 1981
5 Chester Cricket's New Home 1983
6 Harry Kitten and Tucker Mouse 1986
7 The Old Meadow 1987
Children's Books (with Peter Lippman)
# Titolo Anno
1 The Dog That Could Swim Under Water 1956
2 The Garden Under the Sea 1957
3 I see what I see! 1962
4 The Mice, the Monks and the Christmas Tree 1963
5 Sparrow Socks 1965
6 Oscar Lobster's Fair Exchange 1966
7 The Dunkard 1968
8 The Genie of Sutton Place 1972
Libri di non-fiction
# Titolo Anno
1 Heinrich Schliemann: Discoverer of Buried Treasure 1964
2 Sir Arthur Evans: Discoverer of Knossos, 1964
My Readers Books
# Titolo Anno
1 Harry Cat and Tucker Mouse: Tucker's Beetle Band (With: Garth Williams, Thea Feldman, Aleksey Ivanov) 2011
2 Harry Cat and Tucker Mouse: Harry to the Rescue! (With: Garth Williams, Thea Feldman, Aleksey Ivanov, Olga Ivanov) 2011
3 Harry Cat and Tucker Mouse: Starring Harry (With: Garth Williams, Thea Feldman) 2011
Avon Camelot Books
# Titolo Anno
1 Lottie & Lisa (By: Erich Kastner) 1952
2 Summerdog Comes Home (By: George Albert Zabriskie) 1980
3 A Hippopotamus Ate the Teacher (By: Mike Thaler) 1981
4 Baseball Fever (By: Ray Cruz, Johanna Hurwitz) 1981
5 The Trouble with Tuck (By: Theodore Taylor) 1981
6 Irma and Jerry 1982
7 Basic Fun (By: Susan Drake Lipscomb, Margaret Ann Zusnich) 1982
8 Esp McGee (By: Edward Packard) 1983
9 Tunnel to Yesterday (By: Jerome Beatty Jr.) 1983
10 Bet You Can! Science Possibilities to Fool You (By: Vicki Cobb) 1983
11 Rich Mitch (By: Marjorie Weinman Sharmat) 1983
12 Summerdog (By: Thom Roberts) 1983
13 Bet You Can't! (By: Kathy Darling, Vicki Cobb) 1983
14 The Earth is Flat--And Other Great Mistakes (By: Laurence Pringle) 1983
15 Behind the Attic Wall (By: Sylvia Cassedy) 1983
16 Peggy Fleming: Portrait of an Iceskater (By: Bruce Curtis, Stephanie Young) 1984
17 Gremlins (By: George Gipe) 1984
18 Maura's Angel (By: Lynne Reid Banks) 1984
19 The Jellyfish Season (By: Mary Downing Hahn) 1985
20 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Book 1 (By: Andrew Glass, Catherine Edwards Sadler) 1985
21 Get Rich Mitch! (By: Marjorie Weinman Sharmat) 1985
22 Mystery of the Melted Diamonds (By: Carol Farley) 1986
23 Ukrainian Egg Mystery (By: George E. Stanley) 1986
24 Moroccan Mystery (By: Thomas McKean) 1986
25 Ralph Fozbek and the Amazing Black Hole Patrol (By: Steve Senn) 1986
26 Flash Fry, Private Eye (By: Tim Schoch) 1986
27 The Anti-Peggy Plot (By: Thomas McKean) 1986
28 Best Joke Book for Kids 2 (By: Joan Eckstein) 1987
29 The Codebreaker Kids (By: George E. Stanley) 1987
30 Summer Camp Creeps (By: Tim Schoch) 1987
31 The Case of the Lost Look-Alike (By: Carol Farley) 1988
32 Breezy (By: Leda Blumberg) 1988
33 Racing the Sun (By: Paul Pitts) 1988
34 Anne Frank (By: Johanna Hurwitz) 1989
35 The Case of the Vanishing Villain (By: Carol Farley) 1990
36 Something Upstairs (By: C.S. Adler) 1990
37 Ghost Brother (By: C.S. Adler) 1990
38 A Haunting in Williamsburg (By: Lou Kassem) 1990
39 The Best Ever Kids' Book of Lists (By: Eugenie Allen) 1991
40 Ask Me Anything About the Presidents (By: Louis Phillips) 1992
41 The Adventures of King Midas (By: Lynne Reid Banks) 1992
42 Tons of Trash (By: Joan Rattner Heilman) 1992
43 Maria, a Christmas Story (By: Theodore Taylor) 1992
44 How to Travel Through Time (By: James M. Deem) 1993
45 Lucie Babbidge's House (By: Sylvia Cassedy) 1993
46 Beardance (By: Will Hobbs) 1993
47 Christmas Countdown (By: Steve Englehart) 1993
48 Miss Yonkers Goes Bonkers (By: Mike Thaler) 1994
49 The Mummy's Curse (By: Daniel Cohen) 1994
50 Lemonade Days (By: Susan Kirby) 1994
51 Super Snoop Sam Snout and the Case of the Missing Marble (By: Anne C. Lemieux) 1994
52 Main Street (By: Susan Kirby) 1994
53 Comet Luck (By: Madge Harrah) 1994
54 Home Front Hero (By: Susan Kirby) 1994
55 Ali Baba Bernstein, Lost and Found (By: Johanna Hurwitz) 1995
56 Kwanzaa (By: Mildred Pitts Walter) 1995
57 Goodbye, Desert Rose (By: Susan Kirby) 1995
58 Vampire Mom (By: Don Whittington) 1995
59 My Own Two Feet (By: Beverly Cleary) 1995
60 Spookhouse (By: Don Whittington) 1995
61 Harry the Poisonous Centipede (By: Lynne Reid Banks) 1996
62 Going for the Gold: Shannon Miller (By: Septima Green) 1996
63 Four Perfect Pebbles (By: Lila Perl, Marion Blumenthal Lazan) 1996
64 Zombie Queen (By: Don Whittington) 1996
65 Freak Show (By: Don Whittington) 1996
66 Going to Net (By: Various Various) 1996
67 Tracks in the Snow (By: Lucy Jane Bledsoe) 1997
68 Danger Along the Ohio (By: Patricia Willis) 1997
69 Lasting Echoes (By: Joseph Bruchac) 1997
70 Night of the Chupacabras (By: Marie G. Lee) 1998
71 As Ever, Gordy (By: Mary Downing Hahn) 1998
72 No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War (By: Anita Lobel) 1998
73 Becoming Felix (By: Nancy Hope Wilson) 1998
74 Breakaway (By: Kimberley Griffiths Little) 1998
75 Mischief, Mad Mary, and Me (By: Dawn Knight) 1998
76 It's In Your Hands, Daisy P. Duckwitz (By: Jacqueline Shannon) 1998
77 Leaving Summer (By: Donal Harding) 1998
78 Flea Circus Summer (By: Cheryl Ware) 1998
79 Calling Me Home (By: Patricia Hermes) 1998
80 The Pizza That Time Forgot (By: William DeAndrea, Matthew Deandrea) 1999
81 Love Me, Love My Broccoli (By: Julie Anne Peters) 1999
82 Get on the Net (By: Robert Pondiscio) 1999
83 Don't Try This at Home! (By: Vicki Cobb) 1999
84 Bruce Coville's Shapeshifters (By: Bruce Coville) 1999
85 A Kids' Guide to America's Bill of Rights (By: Kathleen Krull) 1999
86 Bruce Coville's Alien Visitors (By: Bruce Coville) 1999
87 Green Mango Magic (By: Sylvie Hossack) 1999
88 All the Answers (By: Anne C. Lemieux) 2000
89 Can of Worms (By: Kathy MacKel) 2000
90 Orphan Journey Home (By: Liza Ketchum) 2000
91 Bearstone (By: Will Hobbs) 2000
92 Alice-by-Accident (By: Lynne Reid Banks) 2000
93 Death at Devil's Bridge (By: Cynthia C. DeFelice) 2000
94 Alice By Accident (By: Lynne Reid Banks) 2003