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Lea Naor (Hebrew: לאה נאור) (born January 22, 1935) is an Israeli Songwriter, Author, Translator and Screenwriter.

Biography
Naor was born and raised in Hertzelia. In her youth, she studied at the Agricultural School of Ayanot. She served in Nahal and was among the founders of Kibbutz Nahal Oz. She studied literature at the Tel Aviv University.

She published several Children's Prose and Poetry books, and wrote scipts for Children's Television series, including Carousel, Hag Li, Ma Pitom? and Fistuk's House. She translated several books, including the works of Dr. Seuss, led by The Cat in the Hat, which earned her the International Hans Christian Andersen Award for Children's Literature translations. Some of her other translations include Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling and The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper. Her book Makhela AliZa earned her a Wolf Award for Children's Literature in 1980. One of her books, Gum Seeds, was adapted into a Children's Musical composed by Nahum Heiman and starring Dalia Friedland and Michael Warshaviak.