Hildick, E W
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1925-2001) UK author, partially resident in the USA from around 1965, prolific author from 1958 of no-nonsense tales for younger children and Young Adult readers, often featuring working-class protagonists and focusing on practical solutions to the problems of living; the late Ghost Squad sequence enjoyably loosens his didactic impulses, retailing a series of conflicts between its young protagonists and the eponymous gang of quasi-criminal ghosts. Books of sf interest include Manhattan Is Missing (1969) and Time Explorers, Inc (1976), in which the predictive dreams of one of the young protagonists lead to actual Time Travel futurewards. [JC]
Edmund Wallace Hildick
born Bradford, Yorkshire: 29 December 1925
died Plymouth, Devon: 12 February 2001
works (highly selected)
series
The Ghost Squad
- The Ghost Squad Breaks Through (New York: E P Dutton, 1984) [The Ghost Squad: hb/Jenny Rutherford]
- The Ghost Squad Flies Concorde (New York: E P Dutton, 1985) [The Ghost Squad: hb/Jenny Rutherford]
- The Ghost Squad and the Halloween Conspiracy (New York: E P Dutton, 1985) [The Ghost Squad: hb/]
- The Ghost Squad and the Ghoul of Brunberg (New York: E P Dutton, 1986) [The Ghost Squad: hb/]
- The Ghost Squad and the Prowling Hermits (New York: E P Dutton, 1987) [The Ghost Squad: hb/Stephen Marchesi]
- The Ghost Squad and the Menace of the Malevs (New York: E P Dutton, 1988) [The Ghost Squad: hb/Stephen Marchesi]
individual titles
- Manhattan Is Missing (Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1969) [hb/]
- Time Explorers, Inc (Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1976) [illus/Nancy Ohanian: hb/Roger Zimmerman]
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