Quote of the day
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. Simplification is the essence of abstraction from which objective values are not necessarily eliminated.
Eloise Jarvis McGraw

Born: December 9, 1915
Died: November 30, 2000 (aged 84)
Bio: Eloise Jarvis McGraw was an American author of children's books and young adult novels. She was awarded the Newbery Honor three times in three different decades, for her novels Moccasin Trail, The Golden Goblet, and The Moorchild.
Known for:
- The Golden Goblet (1961)
- Mara, Daughter of the Nile (1953)
- The Moorchild (1996)
- Moccasin Trail (1952)
- Sawdust in His Shoes (1950)






