Marcia Levin


Marcia Lauter Obrasky Levin was a children's book author, sometimes using the pen name of Marcia Martin. She was creator of the Donna Parker series, as well as 22 books for beginning readers, and some of the first enrichment textbooks about the New Math''.''

Biography

Levin was born and raised in Philadelphia, the daughter of Abraham N. Obrasky and Elizabeth Lauter Obrasky. Her father was a dentist. She graduated from Overbrook [High School |Overbrook High School]. She married writer, publisher, and lawyer Martin Levin in 1939. They had three children, including writer Jeremy Leven, publisher Hugh Lauter Levin, and psychologist and academic dean Wendy Newby. She lived in Rye, New York for 56 years. She died in Sarasota, Florida, in 2006, at the age of 87.

Publications

The Chicago Tribune praised Levin and Bendick's Take Shapes, Lines, and Letters as "a dandy introduction to the world of mathematics without numbers."

Donna Parker Series

  • Donna Parker, Special Agent
  • Donna Parker on Her Own
  • Donna Parker: A Spring to Remember
  • Donna Parker at Cherrydale
  • Donna Parker in Hollywood
  • Donna Parker Mystery at Arawak
  • ''Donna Parker Takes a Giant Step''

    Tom Corbett Series

  • Tom Corbett's A Trip to the Moon
  • ''Tom Corbett's Wonder Book of Space''

    Classics Retold

  • Anna Sewell's Black Beauty Retold For Little Children
  • Peter Pan ''''
  • ''Adventures From the Original Alice in Wonderland''

    The Merry Mailman Series

  • The Merry Mailman
  • ''The Merry Mailman Around the World''

    Mathematics

  • Mathematics Illustrated Dictionary: Facts, Figures and People, Including the New Mathematics by Jeanne Bendick, Marcia Levin, Leonard Simon, Margaret Pickard.
  • Take a Number: New Ideas + Imagination = More Fun
  • Take Shapes, Lines and Letters: New Horizons in Mathematics
  • New mathematics practice workbook Marcia Levin & Jeanne Bendick. Illustrated by Jeanne Bendick.

    Other books

  • A Little Cowboy's Christmas
  • How the Clown Got His Smile
  • Sonny the Lucky Bunny ''''
  • Waiting for Santa Claus: Christmas is coming
  • Let's Take a Ride
  • Johnny Grows Up
  • Pushups and Pinups
  • ''Grandmother's Book''