| LC control no. | n 80050347 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Cresswell, Helen |
| Variant(s) | Rowe, Helen Cresswell ヘレンクレスウェル |
| Birth date | 1934-07-11 |
| Death date | 2005-09-26 |
| Place of birth | Kirkby-in-Ashfield (England) |
| Place of death | Nottinghamshire (England) |
| Field of activity | Children's literature |
| Profession or occupation | Authors Screenwriters |
| Special note | Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script reference not evaluated. |
| Found in | Her The white sea horse, 1964. Her Classic fairy tales, 1994: CIP t.p. (Helen Cresswell) data sheet (b. 07-11-34) Wikipedia WWW site, Sept. 27, 2005 (Helen Cresswell; b. 1934; d. Sept. 26, 2005; British author of over 120 books for children) Wikipedia, Sept. 27, 2017 (Helen Cresswell (11 July 1934 in Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire-26 September 2005 in Eakring, Nottinghamshire) was an English television scriptwriter and author of more than 100 children's books, best known for comedy and supernatural fiction. Her most popular book series, Lizzie Dripping and The Bagthorpe Saga, were also the bases for television series. Cresswell's TV work included adaptation of her own books for television movies and series: Lizzie Dripping (two series, 1973-75), Jumbo Spencer (1976), The Secret World of Polly Flint (1987), and Moondial (1988). Works by others that she adapted for TV include The Haunted School, Five Children and It (1991), The Phoenix and the Carpet, The Famous Five (1995-96), and The Demon Headmaster (1996-98). |
| Associated language | eng |
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