Florence Parry Heide

24 featured booksFlorence Parry Heide

Florence Parry Heide was born in Pittsburgh and raised in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. She began her undergraduate studies at Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, then transferred to the University of California at Los Angeles, from which she received her degree in 1939. She moved to New York City and began working in advertising and public relations. When World War II began, she returned to Pittsburgh and became publicity director of The Pittsburgh Playhouse. She met her future husband in 1943 and married him six weeks later. After the war ended, Heide moved with her husband to Kenosha, Wisconsin, where her husband began a private law practice. She raised their children, and began writing children's books. In 1967, her first book, Maximilian, was published. Over the course of her career, she has published more than 100 books for children, including several collections of poetry.

Search this author Open first work

OL218794A

Overview

Catalog identity and bibliographic footprint for this author.

24 representative editions

Author pages in Bookitis are intended to show only works actually attributed to the author and a representative edition for each of those works.

Catalog identity

How this author appears inside the active Bookitis catalog.

Display name
Florence Parry Heide
Personal name
Florence Parry Heide
Source identifier
OL218794A

Featured books

Representative editions for works actually authored by this person.

Works in catalog

Quick navigation into the work-level grouping pages behind the featured books.

The Shrinking of Treehorn
Representative edition published 2021
Open Work
Fables you shouldn't pay any attention to
Representative edition published 2018
Open Work
Princess Hyacinth (the Surprising Tale of a Girl Who Floated)
Representative edition published 2016
Open Work
How to be a hero
Representative edition published 2016
Open Work
Mystery of the melting snowman
Representative edition published 2012
Open Work
Dillweed's Revenge
Representative edition published 2010
Open Work
Always Listen to Your Mother
Representative edition published 2010
Open Work
Le souhait de Treehorn
Representative edition published 2010
Open Work
The one and only Marigold
Representative edition published 2009
Open Work
Treehorn's Treasure (The Adventures of Treehorn #2)
Representative edition published 2009
Open Work
Le rapetissement de Treehorn
Representative edition published 2009
Open Work
A Promise Is a Promise
Representative edition published 2007
Open Work
That's what friends are for
Representative edition published 2007
Open Work
The Treehorn Trilogy
Representative edition published 2006
Open Work
Some things are scary
Representative edition published 2004
Open Work
Sami and the time of the troubles
Representative edition published 2002
Open Work
Oh, grow up!
Representative edition published 2001
Open Work
It's about time!
Representative edition published 1999
Open Work
Tales for the Perfect Child (Beech Tree Chapter Books)
Representative edition published 1999
Open Work
The House of Wisdom
Representative edition published 1999
Open Work
Tío Armando
Representative edition published 1998
Open Work
The day of Ahmed's secret
Representative edition published 1995
Open Work
The bigness contest
Representative edition published 1994
Open Work
Timothy Twinge
Representative edition published 1993
Open Work