This is book number 4 in the Jenny Archer Chapter Book (Paperback) series.
‘So why don’t you do it?’ I did I sat down that afternoon and wrote Impossible, Possum.” After rejections from 12 publishers, the story was acquired by Little, Brown and published in 1971. Annotation: Convinced that her family is poor because her parents refuse to get her a horse or a swimming pool, nine-year-old Jenny Archer follows her own. Whats Cooking, Jenny Archer By Ellen Conford Cover Image. “When I got home I told my husband, ‘I’ll bet I can write a better book than any I saw in the library today.’ ‘I’ll bet you could,’ he said.
“One day in the library I couldn’t find a good book for my son,” she said. But a trip to the local library in those early days of her career changed her direction.
Source for information on Conford, Ellen: Writers Directory 2005 dictionary. Noted author Ellen Conford, largely known for her humorous and realistic YA fiction and middle grade novels, including the Jenny Archer series, died Friday, March 20, of a heart ailment – on her 73rd birthday – at her home in Great Neck, N.Y.Ĭonford was born in New York City and grew up “as a kid who loved to read, who turned into an adult who loves to read,” she once said, noting that she enjoyed writing books “meant purely to entertain, to amuse, to divert.” She attended Hofstra College (now University) from 1959 to 1962, and in 1960 she married David Conford, who survives her.Ĭonford’s first foray into writing was short stories for teen magazines, she told the online literary journal YARN (Young Adult Review Network) in a 2014 interview. Get The Picture, Jenny Archer Ellen Conford, Linking Picture Books To StandardsPatricia A. /rebates/2f97803161539352fGet-Picture-Jenny-Archer-Conford-03161539312fplp&. Publications: Impossible Possum, 1971 Why Cant I Be William, 1972 Dreams of Victory, 1973 Felicia the Critic, 1973 The Luck of Pokey Bloom, 1974 Me and the Terrible Two, 1974 Just the Thing for Geraldine, 1975 Dear Lovey Hart, I Am Desperate, 1975 The Alfred G.
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