A story that she submitted at that time for a class at the Midwestern Writers Conference was later published as the book Tommy and the Telephone. MacGregor began to write for publication in 1946. She is known best for the Miss Pickerell series of children's novels. It is a question who is most surprised: Miss Pickerell or the captain and the crew! Įllen MacGregor (– March 29, 1954) was an American children's writer. What happens after that is more than she bargains for. She went right up to investigate the outrage. She was very frightened, but this was a clear case of trespassing. But suddenly she saw, right in the middle of the pasture, the strangest, largest contraption she had ever laid eyes on. As she led her cow out to graze behind her little house she thought happily about the rest they were both going to have. She had had an overdose of noise and confusion. Miss Pickerell was mighty glad to be home from her vacation.
Miss Pickerell and the Geiger Counter (Miss Pickerell #2) Miss Pickerell Goes to the Arctic (Miss Pickerell #4) And instead of resting flat on the ground like an airplane, it pointed straight up in the air.Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars (Miss Pickerell #1) It was far bigger than any airplane Miss Pickerell had ever seen or ever heard about. Even from here, Miss Pickerell could see that the thing was enormous. It was shaped a little like a pencil, but it was much fatter, and had several wide fins at the bottom. The ensuing adventure takes her all the way to the Red Planet and back.Īt the far end of Miss Pickerell’s pasture, a huge silver-colored structure gleamed in the late afternoon sun. Miss Pickerell lives quietly on her farm until she finds a rocket ship parked in her cow pasture.
I try to keep my brain free for important stuff, rather than trivia. If they get in a car with me, I’m at least as likely to go somewhere completely different, as I am to go to where we’re supposed to go. In fact, that’s what I try to do.įor better or worse, people often times think I’m scatterbrained for the same reason. I write all the details down, so I don’t have to fill up my brain with these silly details.” That stuck with me. She was flabbergasted that he was so scatterbrained and he said, “I try to keep in my mind only the things that are important. They took off with this woman in the ship and he didn’t seem to know what was happening. She was going there with a scientist who appeared to be very absent-minded. Somehow this woman got on a spaceship that was going to Mars. “One book whose contents I remember best was called Mrs.
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