Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars, by Ellen MacGregorĮmail - Heidi’s Bookstagram - help the podcast find the exact right audience, leave a rating and review on iTunes (or wherever you listen!) or give a shoutout and tag on social media.Third Culture Kids, by David C Pollock & Ruth E van Reken.People of the Book, by Geraldine Brooks.Since I can’t totally leave you without a story, though, I’m also sharing about a special retreat I took around my birthday weekend and how I basically immersed myself in books the whole time. This is the first book credited to both Ellen MacGregor and Dora Pantell.This episode is a slight interruption to the regular format so I can share 3 “superlative” reads from August 2022. This was the final book written by Ellen MacGregor alone and published after her death. Miss Pickerell and the Geiger Counter (1953) Miss Pickerell is angry when she finds out that a science team has appropriated her cow pasture for their experiment, but when she gets into their space ship to give them a piece of her mind, she is accidentally launched on their voyage to Mars with them. Dora Pantell tried to keep the original spirit of the Miss Pickerell books, but she also included new developments in scientific knowledge over the years. Some of the books written by Dora Pantell credit her as a co-author with Ellen MacGregor rather than the sole author. These later books continued from the 1960s through the 1980s. The publishing company McGraw-Hill recruited Dora Pantell, who had a background in writing educational curricula and textbooks, to continue the series after Ellen MacGregor’s death. She passed away in 1954, and some of her final books were published posthumously. The author of the books, Ellen MacGregor, was a librarian and also wrote other children’s books. She has a brother who has seven children, Miss Pickerell’s nieces and nephews, and she sometimes goes to visit them. She carries a little hammer with her everywhere she goes so that she can chip off samples of rock whenever she sees something interesting that would make a good addition to her collection. Miss Pickerell also likes collecting rocks. Miss Pickerell loves her pet cow so much that she brings it everywhere with her, transporting it in a little red trailer attached to her car.
Miss Pickerell and her pet cow travel to various locations around the world and even to outer space. The first books in the series were written in the 1950s, so the scientific information is only current up to that point, but it’s still a fun and nostalgic look back in time. Miss Pickerell is a prim older woman whose adventures were written to help teach children scientific concepts.
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