Pantell, Dora

Entry updated 12 August 2018. Tagged: Author.

(1910-1996) US 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 is fighting against nuclear contamination from a 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 as by Pantell alone. [JC]

Dora Fuchs Pantell

born New York: 25 December 1910

died New York: 15 March 1996

works

series

Miss Pickerell (the first four titles, by Ellen MacGregor alone, are also listed here)

• 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]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database

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