Caroline Dwight Emerson

Emerson was born on March 14, 1891, in Amherst, Massachusetts to Benjamin Kendall Emerson and Mary Annette (Hopkins) Emerson.[3]

She taught at the Brearley School from 1918 – 1935 and was the elementary director at the Spence School in New York from 1935 to 1949.[1][3] She earned a Bachelor of Science from Columbia University in 1930.[3]

Emerson published more than a dozen books during her career as a writer.[3]

Emerson died at Harrington Memorial Hospital in Southbridge, Massachusetts on December 19, 1973.[1][3]

• A Merry-Go-Round of Modern Tales. Illustrated by Lois Lenski. Dutton, 1927.[4]
• Mr. Nip and Mr. Tuck. Illustrated by Lois Lenski. Dutton, 1930.[5]
• Father's Big Improvements. Scholastic, 1936.[6][7]
• Old New York for Young New Yorkers; published later as New York City, Old and New. Illustrated by Alida Conover. Dutton, 1932, 1937, 1953.[8][9][10][11][12]
• Indian Hunting Grounds. Illustrated by Remington Schuyler. J. B. Lippincott, 1938.[13][14]
• School Days in Disneyville. Walt Disney Productions, 1939.[15][16]
• Mickey Sees the U.S.A. D.C. Heath and Company, 1944.[17]
• The Little Green Car. Grosset, 1946. Illustrated by Paul Galdone.[18][19]
• Mr. Nip and Mr. Tuck in the Air. Illustrated by W.C. Nims. Dutton, 1946.[20][21]
• Make Way for the Thruway. Golden Press, 1961.[22]
• The Magic Tunnel. Stokes, 1940; Scholastic, 1964.[23][24][25][26]
• All in a Day's Work. Wonder Books, 1964.[27]
• New Amsterdam; Old Holland in the New World. Illustrated by Harvey Kidder. Garrard Publishing Company, 1967.[28]

• Caroline D. Emerson on Goodreads
• "The Contemporaneous in Fairy Lore" in The Horn Book Magazine