merits. In 1959 (by which time Robert Heinlein had written a commercially successful series of juvenile novels while Alice Dalgliesh was the juveniles editor at Scribners), not only Dalgliesh but the publishing house's entire editorial board rejected his "young adult" novel Starship Troopers flatly in January 1959. Heinlein's correspondence with his agent shows this was the reason why he ceased to write for Scribners, taking Starship Troopers to George Putnam's Sons, where it was successfully published, winning the 1960 Hugo Award for Best Novel. In a letter dated September 19, 1960, Heinlein refers to an approach made to him to resume writing for Scribners through Heinlein's agent Lurton Blassingame in which he refused to return to their stable of juvenile book authors even though "I do know that Alice Dalgliesh is no longer there". Selected works A Happy School Year, Rand McNally & Company, 1924, (reader); West Indian Play Days, Rand McNally, 1926; The Little Wooden Farmer, Macmillan, 1930; reprint, 1958, with illustrations by Anita Lobel, ; First Experiences with Literature, C. Scribner's Sons, 1932, (college textbook); The Choosing Book The Macmillan Company, 1932, color illustrations by Eloise Burns Wilkin; A Book for Jennifer : A Story of London Children in the Eighteenth Century and of Mr. Newbery's Juvenile Library, Scribner, 1940; The Silver Pencil, * C. Scribner's Sons, 1944; reprint, Scholastic Inc., 1992, ; Along Janet's Road, C. Scribner's Sons, 1946; Christmas; A Book of Stories New and Old, C. Scribner's Sons, 1950; The Bears on Hemlock Mountain, * C. Scribner's Sons, 1952; reprint, Simon and Schuster, 1992, ; The Courage of Sarah Noble, *+ C. Scribner's Sons, 1954; reprint, Baker & Taylor, CATS, 2009, ; The Columbus Story, C. Scribner's Sons, 1955; The Thanksgiving Story, ^ illus. Helen Sewell, C. Scribner's Sons, 1954; reprint, Paw Prints, 2008, ; The Fourth of July Story, C. Scribner's Sons, 1956; reprint, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 1995, ; Aids to Choosing Books for Your Children, with Duff, Annis, (editors), Children's Book Council, 1957; Ride on the Wind, C. Scribner's Sons, 1956, (biography of Charles Lindbergh); The Enchanted Book, C. Scribner's Sons, 1958; America Begins: The Story of the Finding of the New World, C. Scribner's Sons, 1938; America Builds Homes, with illustrations by Lois Maloy, C. Scribner's Sons, 1938 The Choosing Book 1932 Macmillan, illustrated by Eloise Wilkins Awards Newbery Honor Book * Lewis Carroll Shelf Award book (1959) + Caldecott