Name Dorothy Kunhardt | Role Author | |
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Died December 1979, Beverly, Massachusetts, United States Books Pat the Bunny, Twenty days, Now open the box, Kitty's New Doll, Pudding Is Nice | ||
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Dorothy Kunhardt (née Dorothy Meserve; September 29, 1901 – December 23, 1979) was an American children's-book author, best known for the baby book Pat the Bunny. She was also a historian and writer about the life of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
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- pat the bunny by dorothy kunhardt
- Storytime with the wombats feat pat the bunny by dorothy kunhardt
- Personal life
- Works
- References
Storytime with the wombats feat pat the bunny by dorothy kunhardt
Personal life
A daughter of historian Frederick Hill Meserve, she was born in New York City and graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1923. She married Philip B. Kunhardt, Sr. (son of George E. Kunhardt), a New Yorker and a Harvard Crimson football letterwinner. They had four children:
Works
Kunhardt wrote nearly 50 books, including one of the bestselling children's books of all time, Pat the Bunny, which has sold over six million copies. She had initially written it for her youngest child Edith, who has followed her mother's footsteps and is a popular children's author. Other works include the well known Twenty Days, an account of Lincoln's assassination and the twenty days that followed, which she wrote with her son, Philip B. Kunhardt, Jr.; Tiny Animal Stories; The Telephone Book; Lucky Mrs. Ticklefeather; Brave Mr. Buckingham; Junket is Nice (1933); Wise Old Aard-Vark (1936); and Now Open the Box.
