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Name
  
Gertrude Crampton


Role
  
Author

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Died
  
1996, Green Valley, Arizona, United States

Books
  
Scuffy the Tugboat, Tootle, The large and growly bear, The funny fixes of the Floogle fa

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Gertrude Crampton (June 26, 1909 – June 25, 1996) was an author of children's books, including Tootle (1945) and Scuffy the Tugboat (1946).

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Both Tootle and Scuffy were published in the popular Little Golden Books series of Simon & Schuster. As of 2001, Tootle was the all-time third best-selling hardback children's book in English; Scuffy was eighth. She also wrote The Large and Growly Bear, published in the Golden Beginning Reader series in 1961, and illustrated by John P. Miller.

Born June 26, 1909 in New York, she received her teaching credentials from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Tootle gertrude crampton bedtime story with narration


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Gertrude Crampton Wikipedia