Sheila k mccullagh biography

British children's writer (1920–2014)

Sheila Kathleen McCullaghMBE (3 December 1920 – 7 July 2014) was a British author of children's literature.^[1]

Biography

McCullagh was born in Surrey, and during her 'teens the family moved to Woodside House, just outside Felmersham on the road to Chellington.

She wrote A Survey of the Parish of Felmersham in the year 1939-1940, over 120 pages handwritten on lined paper. It included samples of aggregate taken from the river and pressed flowers and crops collected from the land.

Her work was first published in the 1950s, when she was working as a lecturer at Leeds University.^[2] From 1958 to 1963 she taught at a teacher's college in London, Ontario before taking up writing full time.^[3] She went on to write many children's fantasy and educational books, the Puddle Lane series being among the most popular and successful.^[4] A television adaptation of the book series starred Books by Sheila K.

McCullagh (Author of Tim and Tobias) QALYV