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2019-12-02 20:31:20 UTC
Born in Mink Creek, Idaho, she became a Mormon and a medical secretary and now lives in Pasadena, California.
"Contributor of stories to anthologies, including Best Short Stories of 1973, 1973, Miniature Mysteries, 1981, Ellery Queen's Masters of Mystery, 1987, and Mystery Cats, 1995; contributor to magazines, including Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Seventeen, Ladies Home Journal, McCall's, Boy's Life, Young Miss, and Co-ed."
In the 1990s, she contributed to the "Point Horror" series.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_Horror
(about that series)
She's also known for her YA romances.
http://www.millereccles.org/?page_id=450
(brief autobiographical piece)
http://comics-and-more.blogspot.com/2018/07/ya-pioneers-lael-littke.html
(article on her life and work)
https://whitneyawards.com/2019/02/08/2012-lael-littke/
Excerpt:
...TRISH FOR PRESIDENT, SHANNY ON HER OWN, and LOYDENE IN LOVE were on the New York Public Library’s “Recommended List for Teenagers.” BLUE SKYE received the “Notable Book” award from the Southern California Council on Children’s Literature and PROM DRESS garnered the dubious honor of being “the book most often stolen” at one school library...
From elsewhere:
Littke says: "I grew up on a farm in Mink Creek, Idaho, where I daydreamed as I herded cows about being a writer living in a penthouse in New York City and wearing glamorous leopard-skin pants."
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&source=hp&q=lael+littke&gbv=2&aq=f&oq=&aqi=
(book covers & photos)
https://www.fantasticfiction.com/l/lael-littke/
(more covers)
https://www.librarything.com/author/littkelael
(booklist)
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&biw=1268&bih=782&ei=sHDlXea-F_Cl_QbpsqaoCw&q=lael+littke+kirkus&oq=lael+littke+kirkus&gs_l=psy-ab.3...2008.3205..3437...0.0..0.111.826.6j3......0....1..gws-wiz.......0i67j0j0i22i30j33i299j33i160.l5UkQ4Baaec&ved=0ahUKEwjm1v3V45fmAhXwUt8KHWmZCbU4ChDh1QMICg&uact=5
(four Kirkus reviews)
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/13731.Lael_Littke
(reader reviews)
https://bequietmommysreading.com/2014/05/28/snarking-nostaligic-prom-dress-by-lael-littke/
(long remembrance of "Prom Dress")
http://yarevisited.blogspot.com/2011/12/point-horror-thirteen-lucinda-by-lael.html
(plot of the story "Lucinda" SPOILERS)
http://yarevisited.blogspot.com/2010/07/point-horror-watcher-lael-littke.html
(plot of "The Watcher" SPOILERS)
http://marshaward.blogspot.com/2008/08/author-interview-nancy-anderson-lael.html
(2008 interview, with two co-authors)
Excerpt:
"Today I have a special treat in my Author Interview series. I’ve gotten answers from three wonderful authors who wrote a trilogy together. Yes, three authors wrote three books! I am the stop today on their Blog Tour.
"The authors are sisters Nancy Anderson and Carroll Hofeling Morris, and their good friend, Lael Littke. The series is entitled “The Company of Good Women,” and the books are Almost Sisters, Three Tickets to Peoria, and Surprise Packages, published by Deseret Books."
https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/littke-lael-j-1929
Excerpts:
Although Lael J. Littke has written books for children of various ages, she is best known as the author of stories of teenage girls who become involved in romance and adventure. In books such as Shanny on Her Own, Loydene in Love, and Blue Skye, Littke creates plucky characters who mature quickly through the course of their adventures; in other works, including Prom Dress and The Watcher, Littke has written suspense tales that School Library Journal contributor Audrey Eaglen says "could have been written by either [popular authors Christopher] Pike or [R. L.] Stine."...
Littke: "After teaching writing classes for several years, I have decided that
the difference between a successful author and one who gets only
rejections is often a matter of discipline: the discipline to stick
with a project to completion, to revise it endlessly if necessary, and
to send it out again and again if it keeps coming back. It takes a
hard disciplinarian to sit oneself down at a cold typewriter each
morning and go at it again, but that's what it takes. I had a friend
who kept her ironing board set up next to her typewriter, and each
morning she told herself that if she didn't write, she would have to
iron, a task she hated more than scrubbing bathrooms. Even so, she
often spent the day ironing. That's how hard it is to become a
successful writer. But most of us agree that it's worth every effort
we've made."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lael_Littke
https://www.google.com/search?q=lael+littke&hl=en&source=lnms&tbm=vid&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjTgp-E5JfmAhWNVN8KHftxDTQQ_AUoAnoECBEQBA&biw=1268&bih=782
(videos - she does not appear in them)
WORKS
*
WRITINGS
* Wilmer the Watchdog, Western (New York, NY), 1970.
* Tell Me When I Can Go, Scholastic (New York, NY), 1978.
* Cave-In!, illustrated by Tom Dunnington, Children's Press (New
York, NY), 1981.
* Trish for President, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1984.
* Shanny on Her Own, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1985.
* Loydene in Love, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1986.
* Where the Creeks Meet, Deseret (Salt Lake City, UT), 1987.
* Prom Dress, Scholastic (New York, NY), 1989.
* Blue Skye, Scholastic (New York, NY), 1990.
* Who Painted the Porcupine Purple?, illustrated by Ann
Grifalconi, Silver Burdett (Morristown, NJ), 1992.
* The Watcher, Scholastic (New York, NY), 1994.
* Haunted Sister, H. Holt (New York, NY), 1998.
* Lake of Secrets, H. Holt (New York, NY), 2002.
* (With Richard E. Turley and James Michael Pratt) Stories from
the Life of Joseph Smith, Deseret Book Company (Salt Lake City, UT),
2003.
* King of the Knock Jokes, Dominic Press (Carlsbad, CA), 2003.
* The Cookie Quest, Dominic Press (Carlsbad, CA), 2003.
* Space Slug, Dominic Press (Carlsbad, CA), 2003.
* Searching for Selene, Deseret Book Company (Salt Lake City, UT),
2003.
*
"TALL TALE" SERIES; WITH CASSETTE RECORDINGS
* Olympia Odette Presents Paul Bunyan's Blue Ox Blues, illustrated
by Tom and Carol Newsom, Thinking Well (East Moline, IL), 1990.
* Olympia Odette Presents Davy Crockett's Bear-ly Believable
Sneeze, illustrated by Tom and Carol Newsom, Thinking Well (East
Moline, IL), 1990.
* Olympia Odette Presents Nellie Bly's "In a Jam" Telegram,
illustrated by Tom and Carol Newsom, Thinking Well (East Moline, IL),
1990.
*
"PEANUT BUTTER POND" SERIES; WITH CASSETTE RECORDINGS
* The Day Woodchuck Would Chuck Wood at Peanut Butter Pond,
illustrated by Stephanie McFetridge Britt, Thinking Well (East Moline,
IL), 1990.
* The Day Porcupine Put on the Dog at Peanut Butter Pond,
illustrated by Stephanie McFetridge Britt, Thinking Well (East Moline,
IL), 1990.
* The Day Snake Saved Time at Peanut Butter Pond, illustrated by
Stephanie McFetridge Britt, Thinking Well (East Moline, IL), 1990.
*
"BEE THERES" SERIES
* Getting Rid of Rhoda, Deseret Book Company (Salt Lake City, UT),
1992.
* The Mystery of Ruby's Ghost, Deseret Book Company (Salt Lake
City, UT), 1992.
* Star of the Show, Deseret Book Company (Salt Lake City, UT),
1993.
* There's a Snake at Girls' Camp, Deseret Book Company (Salt Lake
City, UT), 1994.
* The Bridesmaid Dress Disaster, Deseret Book Company (Salt Lake
City, UT), 1994.
* Run, Ducky, Run, Deseret Book Company (Salt Lake City, UT),
1996.
* The Phantom Fair, Deseret Book Company (Salt Lake City, UT),
1996.
Lenona.
"Contributor of stories to anthologies, including Best Short Stories of 1973, 1973, Miniature Mysteries, 1981, Ellery Queen's Masters of Mystery, 1987, and Mystery Cats, 1995; contributor to magazines, including Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Seventeen, Ladies Home Journal, McCall's, Boy's Life, Young Miss, and Co-ed."
In the 1990s, she contributed to the "Point Horror" series.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_Horror
(about that series)
She's also known for her YA romances.
http://www.millereccles.org/?page_id=450
(brief autobiographical piece)
http://comics-and-more.blogspot.com/2018/07/ya-pioneers-lael-littke.html
(article on her life and work)
https://whitneyawards.com/2019/02/08/2012-lael-littke/
Excerpt:
...TRISH FOR PRESIDENT, SHANNY ON HER OWN, and LOYDENE IN LOVE were on the New York Public Library’s “Recommended List for Teenagers.” BLUE SKYE received the “Notable Book” award from the Southern California Council on Children’s Literature and PROM DRESS garnered the dubious honor of being “the book most often stolen” at one school library...
From elsewhere:
Littke says: "I grew up on a farm in Mink Creek, Idaho, where I daydreamed as I herded cows about being a writer living in a penthouse in New York City and wearing glamorous leopard-skin pants."
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&source=hp&q=lael+littke&gbv=2&aq=f&oq=&aqi=
(book covers & photos)
https://www.fantasticfiction.com/l/lael-littke/
(more covers)
https://www.librarything.com/author/littkelael
(booklist)
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&biw=1268&bih=782&ei=sHDlXea-F_Cl_QbpsqaoCw&q=lael+littke+kirkus&oq=lael+littke+kirkus&gs_l=psy-ab.3...2008.3205..3437...0.0..0.111.826.6j3......0....1..gws-wiz.......0i67j0j0i22i30j33i299j33i160.l5UkQ4Baaec&ved=0ahUKEwjm1v3V45fmAhXwUt8KHWmZCbU4ChDh1QMICg&uact=5
(four Kirkus reviews)
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/13731.Lael_Littke
(reader reviews)
https://bequietmommysreading.com/2014/05/28/snarking-nostaligic-prom-dress-by-lael-littke/
(long remembrance of "Prom Dress")
http://yarevisited.blogspot.com/2011/12/point-horror-thirteen-lucinda-by-lael.html
(plot of the story "Lucinda" SPOILERS)
http://yarevisited.blogspot.com/2010/07/point-horror-watcher-lael-littke.html
(plot of "The Watcher" SPOILERS)
http://marshaward.blogspot.com/2008/08/author-interview-nancy-anderson-lael.html
(2008 interview, with two co-authors)
Excerpt:
"Today I have a special treat in my Author Interview series. I’ve gotten answers from three wonderful authors who wrote a trilogy together. Yes, three authors wrote three books! I am the stop today on their Blog Tour.
"The authors are sisters Nancy Anderson and Carroll Hofeling Morris, and their good friend, Lael Littke. The series is entitled “The Company of Good Women,” and the books are Almost Sisters, Three Tickets to Peoria, and Surprise Packages, published by Deseret Books."
https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/littke-lael-j-1929
Excerpts:
Although Lael J. Littke has written books for children of various ages, she is best known as the author of stories of teenage girls who become involved in romance and adventure. In books such as Shanny on Her Own, Loydene in Love, and Blue Skye, Littke creates plucky characters who mature quickly through the course of their adventures; in other works, including Prom Dress and The Watcher, Littke has written suspense tales that School Library Journal contributor Audrey Eaglen says "could have been written by either [popular authors Christopher] Pike or [R. L.] Stine."...
Littke: "After teaching writing classes for several years, I have decided that
the difference between a successful author and one who gets only
rejections is often a matter of discipline: the discipline to stick
with a project to completion, to revise it endlessly if necessary, and
to send it out again and again if it keeps coming back. It takes a
hard disciplinarian to sit oneself down at a cold typewriter each
morning and go at it again, but that's what it takes. I had a friend
who kept her ironing board set up next to her typewriter, and each
morning she told herself that if she didn't write, she would have to
iron, a task she hated more than scrubbing bathrooms. Even so, she
often spent the day ironing. That's how hard it is to become a
successful writer. But most of us agree that it's worth every effort
we've made."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lael_Littke
https://www.google.com/search?q=lael+littke&hl=en&source=lnms&tbm=vid&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjTgp-E5JfmAhWNVN8KHftxDTQQ_AUoAnoECBEQBA&biw=1268&bih=782
(videos - she does not appear in them)
WORKS
*
WRITINGS
* Wilmer the Watchdog, Western (New York, NY), 1970.
* Tell Me When I Can Go, Scholastic (New York, NY), 1978.
* Cave-In!, illustrated by Tom Dunnington, Children's Press (New
York, NY), 1981.
* Trish for President, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1984.
* Shanny on Her Own, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1985.
* Loydene in Love, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1986.
* Where the Creeks Meet, Deseret (Salt Lake City, UT), 1987.
* Prom Dress, Scholastic (New York, NY), 1989.
* Blue Skye, Scholastic (New York, NY), 1990.
* Who Painted the Porcupine Purple?, illustrated by Ann
Grifalconi, Silver Burdett (Morristown, NJ), 1992.
* The Watcher, Scholastic (New York, NY), 1994.
* Haunted Sister, H. Holt (New York, NY), 1998.
* Lake of Secrets, H. Holt (New York, NY), 2002.
* (With Richard E. Turley and James Michael Pratt) Stories from
the Life of Joseph Smith, Deseret Book Company (Salt Lake City, UT),
2003.
* King of the Knock Jokes, Dominic Press (Carlsbad, CA), 2003.
* The Cookie Quest, Dominic Press (Carlsbad, CA), 2003.
* Space Slug, Dominic Press (Carlsbad, CA), 2003.
* Searching for Selene, Deseret Book Company (Salt Lake City, UT),
2003.
*
"TALL TALE" SERIES; WITH CASSETTE RECORDINGS
* Olympia Odette Presents Paul Bunyan's Blue Ox Blues, illustrated
by Tom and Carol Newsom, Thinking Well (East Moline, IL), 1990.
* Olympia Odette Presents Davy Crockett's Bear-ly Believable
Sneeze, illustrated by Tom and Carol Newsom, Thinking Well (East
Moline, IL), 1990.
* Olympia Odette Presents Nellie Bly's "In a Jam" Telegram,
illustrated by Tom and Carol Newsom, Thinking Well (East Moline, IL),
1990.
*
"PEANUT BUTTER POND" SERIES; WITH CASSETTE RECORDINGS
* The Day Woodchuck Would Chuck Wood at Peanut Butter Pond,
illustrated by Stephanie McFetridge Britt, Thinking Well (East Moline,
IL), 1990.
* The Day Porcupine Put on the Dog at Peanut Butter Pond,
illustrated by Stephanie McFetridge Britt, Thinking Well (East Moline,
IL), 1990.
* The Day Snake Saved Time at Peanut Butter Pond, illustrated by
Stephanie McFetridge Britt, Thinking Well (East Moline, IL), 1990.
*
"BEE THERES" SERIES
* Getting Rid of Rhoda, Deseret Book Company (Salt Lake City, UT),
1992.
* The Mystery of Ruby's Ghost, Deseret Book Company (Salt Lake
City, UT), 1992.
* Star of the Show, Deseret Book Company (Salt Lake City, UT),
1993.
* There's a Snake at Girls' Camp, Deseret Book Company (Salt Lake
City, UT), 1994.
* The Bridesmaid Dress Disaster, Deseret Book Company (Salt Lake
City, UT), 1994.
* Run, Ducky, Run, Deseret Book Company (Salt Lake City, UT),
1996.
* The Phantom Fair, Deseret Book Company (Salt Lake City, UT),
1996.
Lenona.