Seredy learned these stories from her father when she was a child. This book, which she also illustrated, won the Newbery Award in 1938. In 1959 it received the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award. The Singing Tree appeared in 1939. A sequel to The Good Master, it tells of the effects of World War I on Kate and all of her family. The book shows the terrible effects of war upon ordinary people, especially those who are forced to leave their lands and homes to fight. The Singing Tree was also named a Newbery Honor book. Seredy continued to write and illustrate her own books as well as those of other writers. In 1945 she illustrated The Christmas Anna Angel by Ruth Sawyer. When the Caldecott Honor list was created in 1971, Seredy was retroactively named an Honor winner for those illustrations. Seredy had twelve children's books published, but she considered herself an illustrator before an author. She had a unique style, primarily based on drawing, and considered her books "an excuse for making pictures". Her last book, Lazy Tinka, is dedicated to her long-time editor, May Massee. Kate Seredy died March 7, 1975, in Middletown, New York, at the age of 75. Her papers and illustrations are held at the May Massee Collection at Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas, and the University of Oregon Library. Works Written and illustrated The Good Master, Viking Press, 1935 ^ Listening, Viking, 1936 The White Stag, Viking, 1937 + The Singing Tree, Viking, 1939 ^ A Tree for Peter, Viking, 1941. Reissued Purple House Press, 2004, 2014. The Open Gate, Viking, 1943 The Chestry Oak, Viking, 1948. Reissued Purple House Press, 2015. Gypsy, Viking, 1951 Philomena, Viking, 1955 The Tenement Tree, Viking, 1959 A Brand New Uncle, Viking, 1961 Lazy Tinka, Viking, 1962 Selected illustrated books Friendly Stories by Arthur I. Gates and Miriam Blanton Huber, Macmillan, 1930 The Pathfinder : Readings from Modern Literature by Lawton B. Evans, Macmillan, 1930 God our Father by Virgil George Michel and Basil Augustine Stegmann, Macmillan, 1934 The Prince Commands by Andre Norton (Norton's debut), D. Appleton–Century Company, 1934 Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink, Macmillan, 1935 + Common Sense for Mothers on Bringing up Your Children from Babyhood to Adolescence by Estelle Mulqueen Reilly, Funk & Wagnalls, 1935 Young Walter Scott by Elizabeth Janet Gray, Viking, 1935 ^ The Selfish Giant and Other Stories compiled by