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Sunday, October 30, 2016

HvS | Nov. 1–10th Anniversary of Her Death

Spike, 1909-1994 (L) and Hilda van Stockum
Marlin, 1908-2006. Photo taken in NJ in 1971.
Nov. 1–Hilda van Stockum died this day, All Saints Day, in 2006. This is the 10th anniversary of her death, and it was celebrated with the issue of a new (2016) edition of her 1975 book The Borrowed House, originally published by Farrar Straus.

The family HvS Remembrances post has recently been updated

Here are some of HvS's many obituaries and appreciations:

USA
New York Times, Nov. 4, 2006, New York Sun, Nov. 3, 2006, Children's Literature NetworkBethlehem BooksPublishers WeeklyHorn BookAna Braga-Henebry's JournalLove2Learn MomTop Ten Sources - Children's MediaHiram LibraryKaren Edmisten BlogMailgate.
CANADA Toronto Globe and Mail, Nov. 2, 2006, National Post, Nov. 9, 2006.
IRELAND Irish Times, Nov. 18, 2006.

UK Books for Keeps, Jan. 2007, Berkhamsted Gazette, Nov. 8, 2006, World People's BlogAchockoblog (Achuka).  
Reissued in 2016.
NETHERLANDS (in Dutch) Het Parool (Amsterdam, WWII Underground Resistance Newspaper), Nov. 9, 2006, Leesplein
GERMANY (in German) German-Language Wikipedia.  
KENYA Daily Nation, Nairobi, Nov. 14, 2006, p. 38. 
NEW ZEALAND Dorothy Neal White Newsletter

Related Posts: HvS English-Language Wikipedia Entry . HvS Dutch-Language Wikipedia Entry . Her brother Willem . European Pilgrimage 1954-55 . New Purple House Press Edition of The Borrowed House . Remembrances by Her Family (Updated to 2016)

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