Pantell, Dora
Entry updated 3 May 2023. Tagged: Author.
(1915-1996) US teacher, technical writer and author of fiction for children, best known for her continuation of Ellen MacGregor's Miss Pickerell series of tales about Lavinia Pickerell, a highly adventurous New England spinster. Pantell wrote most her contributions as with MacGregor, who had left copious notes for continuations of the sequence, in which Pickerell applies her rigorous intellect to uncovering the scientific premises underlying Space Flight and other marvels of Technology, travelling to the Moon and Mars and Under the Sea and elsewhere. At the point of the last named collaborative title, Miss Pickerell and the Blue Whales (1983), Pickerell and her nephew are investigating the dwindling blue whale population (see Ecology) and become involved with the Space Shuttle, material clearly not directly inspired by MacGregor, who had died in 1954. The last two titles – Miss Pickerell and the War of the Computers (1984), where Computers cause a cruel rise in the price of food, and Miss Pickerell and the Lost World (1986), in which Pickerell returns a prehistoric creature to the Lost World from which it had strayed – were credited as by Pantell alone. [JC]
Dora Fuchs Pantell
born New York: 25 December 1915
died New York: 15 March 1996
works
series
Miss Pickerell
The first four series titles, by Ellen MacGregor alone, are also listed here for completeness and convenience.
- Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1951) by Ellen MacGregor solo [short version first appeared 1950 Liberty Magazine as "Swept Her Into Space": Miss Pickerell: illus/hb/Paul Galdone]
- Miss Pickerell and the Geiger Counter (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1953) by Ellen MacGregor solo [Miss Pickerell: illus/hb/Paul Galdone]
- Miss Pickerell Goes Undersea (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1953) by Ellen MacGregor solo [Miss Pickerell: illus/hb/Paul Galdone]
- Miss Pickerell Goes to the Arctic (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1954) by Ellen MacGregor solo [Miss Pickerell: illus/hb/Paul Galdone]
- Miss Pickerell on the Moon (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1965) with Ellen MacGregor [Miss Pickerell: illus/hb/Charles Geer]
- Miss Pickerell Goes on a Dig (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1966) with Ellen MacGregor [Miss Pickerell: illus/hb/Charles Geer]
- Miss Pickerell Harvests the Sea (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968) with Ellen MacGregor [Miss Pickerell: illus/hb/Charles Geer]
- Miss Pickerell and the Weather Satellite (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971) with Ellen MacGregor [Miss Pickerell: illus/hb/Charles Geer]
- Miss Pickerell Meets Mr. H.U.M. (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974) with Ellen MacGregor [Miss Pickerell: illus/hb/Charles Geer]
- Miss Pickerell Takes the Bull by the Horns (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976) with Ellen MacGregor [Miss Pickerell: illus/hb/Charles Geer]
- Miss Pickerell to the Earthquake Rescue (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1977) with Ellen MacGregor [Miss Pickerell: illus/hb/Charles Geer]
- Miss Pickerell and the Supertanker (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1978) with Ellen MacGregor [Miss Pickerell: illus/hb/Charles Geer]
- Miss Pickerell Tackles the Energy Crisis (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1980) with Ellen MacGregor [Miss Pickerell: illus/hb/Charles Geer]
- Miss Pickerell on the Trail (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1981) with Ellen MacGregor [Miss Pickerell: illus/hb/C Geer]
- Miss Pickerell and the Blue Whales (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1983) with Ellen MacGregor [Miss Pickerell: illus/hb/Charles Geer]
- Miss Pickerell and the War of the Computers (Danbury, Connecticut: Franklin Watts, 1984) [Miss Pickerell: illus/hb/Charles Geer]
- Miss Pickerell and the Lost World (Danbury, Connecticut: Franklin Watts, 1986) with Ellen MacGregor [Miss Pickerell: illus/hb/Charles Geer]
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