Background
Shippen was born in Hoboken, New Jersey on April 1, 1892 to Francis and Ellen Shippen.
( Katherine Shippen collaborated with Anthony Ravielli, t...)
Katherine Shippen collaborated with Anthony Ravielli, the illustrator to give a history of the study of biology for students in the middle school grades. She beautiful tells the story of the progression of scientific discoveries that built upon one another to give us our present day understanding of the created world. First published in 1955, Shippen republished it in 1968 under the title of So Many Marvels. Katherine B. Shippen was born on April 1, 1892, and spent her life as a history teacher, museum curator and children's author. She died on February 20, 1980. During her career as an author, Shippen published 21 books won the Newbery Honor Award twice, one of which was for Men, Microscopes, and Living Things.
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( Katherine Shippen collaborated with Anthony Ravielli, t...)
Katherine Shippen collaborated with Anthony Ravielli, the illustrator to give a history of the study of biology for students in the middle school grades. She beautiful tells the story of the progression of scientific discoveries that built upon one another to give us our present day understanding of the created world. First published in 1955, Shippen republished it in 1968 under the title of So Many Marvels. Katherine B. Shippen was born on April 1, 1892, and spent her life as a history teacher, museum curator and children's author. She died on February 20, 1980. During her career as an author, Shippen published 21 books won the Newbery Honor Award twice, one of which was for Men, Microscopes, and Living Things.
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Shippen was born in Hoboken, New Jersey on April 1, 1892 to Francis and Ellen Shippen.
Columbia University; Bryn Mawr College.
She earned a Bachelor of Arts from Bryn Mawr College in 1914 and an Master of Arts from Columbia University in 1929. While studying for her master"s degree, Shippen taught history at the Beard School (now Morristown-Beard School) in Orange, New Jersey (1917-1926) and then at The Brearley School in Manhattan borough (1926-1935). She then served as the headmistress at Mission Fine"s School (now Princeton Day School) in Princeton, New Jersey for the next nine years.
In 1945, the Brooklyn Children"s Museum named Shippen curator of the social studies department.
In the same year, she published her first book, New Foundation World. Several of her books have been translated into Swedish, German, Polish, Spanish, and Greek editions.
She died on February 20, 1980 in Suffern, New New York
( Katherine Shippen collaborated with Anthony Ravielli, t...)
( Katherine Shippen collaborated with Anthony Ravielli, t...)