Eleanor Estes:
(May 9, 1906 – July 15, 1988).
American children’s writer and a children’s librarian.
Her book Ginger Pye, for which she also created illustrations, won the Newbery Medal. Three of her books were Newbery Honor Winners, and one was awarded the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award. Estes’ books were based on her life in small-town Connecticut in the early 1900s.
The Halloween wind was blowing, not a blasting of wind but a right-sized swelling, falling, and gushing of wind.
Halloween shadows played upon the walls of the houses.
