Talk:May Hill Arbuthnot

Dick and Jane
(quote) "Arbuthnot and William S. Gray, a friend from the University of Chicago, developed and co-authored this series for early readers. The series was quite popular, and is now well known as the first of the Dick and Jane series."

In that I suppose we follow the official source for the ALA honor that is named for her, May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture Award.

We do not mention Arbuthnot in the linked article on Dick and Jane, where we identify William S. Gray and Zerna Sharp as the writers and date the series from the 1930s. Nor do we mention her in the substantial Gray biography or the Sharp stub. Our evident source on Zerna Sharp and Dick & Jane does not mention Arbuthnot.

WorldCat does not list any Dick and Jane readers (but I don't know how libraries catalog those).

The German national library (GND) does list one title by Gray & Arbuthnot, World of Books in multiple editions or copies.

--P64 (talk) 20:33, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

Children and Books
Coincidentally another Z.S. did continue Arbuthnot's famous book Children and Readers (from 1947): Zena Sutherland, editions 4 to 9 (from 1972), Formats and Editions of Children and books.

ALA calls this her most important work in relation to the award/lecture in her honor, May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture Award. --P64 (talk) 20:47, 2 May 2013 (UTC)