![]() In 1935 Seredy met May Massee, the children's editor at Viking Press. Though the store wasn't a success, she later credited it with helping her to understand children and what made a good children's book. From 1933 to 1934 Seredy owned a children's bookstore. She studied English language, working as an illustrator and artist to support herself, while preparing to illustrate children's books. In 1922 Seredy moved from Budapest to the United States. After the war she illustrated several books in Hungary. During World War I Seredy traveled to Paris and worked as a combat nurse. Seredy received a diploma to teach art from the Academy of Arts in Budapest. : 299 She was the only child of a schoolteacher, Louis Peter Seredy, and his wife, Anna Ireny. Kate Seredy was born Novem in Budapest, Hungary. Seredy seems to be unknown (and untranslated) in her native Hungary, despite the fact that her story of the Good Master, and the sequel set in World War I are intensely about Hungary. ![]() ![]() Most of her books were written in English, which was not her first language. She won the Newbery Medal once, the Newbery Honor twice, the Caldecott Honor once, and Lewis Carroll Shelf Award. Kate Seredy (Novem– March 7, 1975) was a Hungarian-born writer and illustrator of children's books. ![]()
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