Claire Huchet Bishop | |
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| Born | 30 December 1898 Switzerland |
| Died | 13 March 1993 (aged 94) Paris, France |
| Nationality | Swiss |
| Education | Sorbonne, University of Paris |
| Known for | Writing, writer, children's literature, poet, lecturer, editor |
| Notable work | The Five Chinese Brothers, Pancakes-Paris, All Alone, and Twenty and Ten |
Claire Huchet Bishop (30 December 1898 – 13 March 1993)[1] was a Swiss children's writer and librarian. She wrote two Newbery Medal runners-up, Pancakes-Paris (1947) and All Alone (1953), and she won the Josette Frank Award for Twenty and Ten (1952). Her first English-language children's book became a classic: The Five Chinese Brothers, illustrated by Kurt Wiese and published in 1938, was named to the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award list in 1959.