(This is a counting book showing the different kinds of ha...)
This is a counting book showing the different kinds of hats worn by amusing animal characters doing different jobs. It ends with the hat worn by a kindergarten graduate, with the promise that “you can be anything you want to be!”
Caroline Ford was an American writer, author of fictions, stories, and poems for young children. The most popular book she wrote in 2009 - Ten Hats: A Counting Book.
Background
Ford was born on November 26, 1938, in Staten Island, New York, United States. She is the daughter of Ellison Jesse, a marine engineer, and Loretto Mott, a homemaker. She spent her life living in different cities: in Howell, Long Branch, and Toms River, New Jersey, also in Texas, Colorado, and Stuttgart, Germany.
Education
Carolyn Ford graduated from Port Richmond High School class in 1956.
Early in her career, Carolyn Ford worked at Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch as a former guest services representative. She took positions of library assistant, tax clerk, and stringer for a local radio station. Then she intended to focus on writing and became a writer of poetry and fiction for young children. Her book Nothing In The Mailbox is represented in anthologies, including From Eulogy to Joy. This work and Ten Hats: A Counting Book has been published in both English and Spanish. Many of her stories, poems, and puzzles appeared in Highlights for Children along with Moondance, The Journal of New Jersey Poets, and Ladybug. Other essays found in various newsletters and newspapers. While alive she began work on her book Fifty/Fifty: Fifty Wonderful Reasons to Enjoy Your Fifties.
Carolyn loved her volunteer work as an in-school reader to children.
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2009
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Quotations:
"Writing, as well as reading, makes my life more interesting, productive, and fulfilling. Writing for children is a joy and a privilege. The love of reading I have enjoyed since early childhood is a blessing to be shared. I have been particularly happy to have my first published book be an early reader and to have stories accepted by magazines such as Highlights for Children and Ladybug.” - speaking about writing
Membership
Ford was a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators.
Interests
theatre, dancing, spending time with family
Connections
Caroline was married Jon Ford in 1956. The marriage produced six children.