Celeste Comegys Peardon
Mary Celeste Comegys Peardon was an American writer of books for children and classroom use.
Early life
Mary Celeste Comegys was born in Rock Island, Illinois, the daughter of Joseph Parsons Comegys and Eliza Virginia Thompson Comegys. Her father was a surgeon and a college professor. She graduated from Rock Island High School, and graduated from Barnard College in 1926. Her older sister Zelina Comegys Brunschwig was prominent in the interior design industry.Career
Peardon wrote books for children, especially The Work-Play Readers, for classroom use. She was also credited as a consultant on the short film Adventures of Bunny Rabbit. She worked on another film produced by Encyclopedia Britannica, Navajo Children, with her colleagues Arthur I. Gates and Ernest Horn. She was president of the Women's Faculty Club at Teachers College, Columbia University, and spoke at educational meetings.Publications
Many of these titles were part of The Work-Play Readers, a set of primers for early readers, which she wrote in collaboration with Arthur I. Gates and other contributors.Adventures in a Big City- "Studies of Children's Interest in Reading" Nick and Dick; Fun with Nick and Dick; and The Story Book of Nick and Dick Jim and Judy Off we go Wide wings We Grow Up Down our street Sing, canary, sing The Surprise Box In Came Pinky Elsie Elephant Pueblo Indian stories Fifty Winters Ago The Pupil's Own Vocabulary Speller Tags and Twinkle Good Times Together Robin fly south! Sandy in the Green Mountains The World I Know
- ''Good Times Tomorrow''