Margaret Hodges

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Sarah Margaret "Peggy" Hodges née Moore (July 26, 1911 – December 13, 2005) was an American writer of children's books, librarian, and storyteller. Sarah Margaret Moore was born in Indianapolis, Indiana to Arthur Carlisle Moore and Annie Marie Moore. She enrolled at Tudor Hall, a college preparatory school for girls. A 1932 graduate of Vassar College, she arrived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with her husband Fletcher Hodges Jr. when in 1937 he became curator at the Stephen Foster Memorial. She trained as a librarian at Carnegie Institute of Technology. Beginning in 1958 with One Little Drum, she wrote more than 40 published books. She also wrote the book John F. Kennedy Voice of Hope. She was a professor of library science at the University of Pittsburgh, where she retired in 1976. Hodges died of heart disease December 13, 2005, at her home in Oakmont, Pennsylvania. She suffered from Parkinson's disease. She wrote her stories on a notepad or a typewriter. "I need good ideas, and they don't come out of machines", she once said.

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Loud, Naked, & in Three Colors
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The Legend of Saint Christopher
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The wee Christmas cabin
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Dick Whittington and his cat
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Moses
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Merlin and the making of the king
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The Wave
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The boy who drew cats
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Silent Night
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Joan of Arc
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Saint George and the Dragon
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Up the chimney
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Saint Patrick and the peddler
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The true tale of Johnny Appleseed
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Comus
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Molly Limbo
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Gulliver in Lilliput
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Hero of Bremen
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Hidden in sand
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Of swords and sorcerers
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The kitchen knight
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Blue Mountain guide
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Don Quixote and Sancho Panza
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The golden deer
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