Valerie Tripp
Author of Meet Felicity: An American Girl
About the Author
Valerie Tripp graduated with honors from the first coeducational class at Yale University in 1973. She received a Masters of Education from Harvard University in 1981. From 1974 to 1980, she was a writer for the Addison-Wesley Reading Program. She then became a freelance writer for The show more Hampton-Brown Company and ELHI Publishers Services creating educational materials for major publishers. In 1983, Tripp and Pleasant Rowland decided to write a series of books about girls growing up all over the country during some of the most historical events of the past. Rowland envisioned the books as one of the cornerstones of a new company she had just founded called the Pleasant Co. Tripp's first assignment for Pleasant Co. was writing four of the six books about Samantha, a girl in turn-of-the-century America. Tripp then wrote about Felicity, Molly, and Josephina for the American Girls series. Her other works include the Hopscotch Hill School series. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Image credit: Uncredited photo at American Girl Publishing
Series
Works by Valerie Tripp
The American Girls Short Stories, Set 2: Molly and the Movie Star, Samantha Saves the Wedding, Addy's Little… (2000) 34 copies
Stars, Stripes, and Surprises: A Molly Classic 2 (American Girl Beforever Molly Classic) (2018) 20 copies
Theater: Plays About Kirsten, Samantha, and Molly for You and Your Friends to Perform (The American Girls Collection) (1989) 18 copies
Five Plays: For Girls and Boys to Perform : Tea for Felicity, Home Is Where the Heart Is, Friendship and Freedom,… (1995) 9 copies
Meet the American Girls: Meet Samantha/Meet Molly/Meet Addy/Meet Kirsten/Meet Felicity/Boxed Set (1993) 8 copies
Friendship and Freedom-A Play about Addy-Play Script-The American Girls Collection (Adapted from Addy Learns a Lesson) (1994) 5 copies
Hopscotch Hill School Where A Love For Learning Grows (6 book set level 2) (American Girl) (2004) 5 copies
American Girls Pastimes: Felicity's Pastimes (Cookbook, Craft Book, Paper Dolls, Theater Kit) (1995) 4 copies
The American Girls Collection: Felicity-A Collection of Stories (Book 1: Meet Felicity, An American Girl; Book… (2000) 4 copies
Josefina's Craft Book: A Look at Crafts from the Past with Projects You Can Make Today (1700) 4 copies
Felicity's Short Story Set: Felicity's New Sister/Felicity's Dancing Shoes/Felicity Discovers a Secret (2002) 3 copies
The Superkids Library: Gifts Unit 10 2 copies
The Superkids Hit Second Grade, Decodable Reader Level 5, 9781598335187, 1598335189, 2009 (2007) 2 copies
The Superkids Library: Glad Golly 2 copies
The Superkids Library: Doc Unit 5 2 copies
The Superkids Library: Alf Unit 4 2 copies
Get It! 2 copies
The Superkids Library: Twins Unit 20 2 copies
The Superkids Library: Sal's Closet 2 copies
The Superkids Library: Dot Unit 16 2 copies
AMERICAN GIRL POUCH KIRSTEN 1854 2 copies
The Superkids Library: Golly Unit 3 2 copies
The Superkids Library: Oswald Unit 2 2 copies
The Superkids Library: Cass Unit 1 2 copies
AMERICAN GIRL POUCH SAMANTHA 1904 2 copies
THE AMERICAN GIRLS 1 copy
American Girl Short Stories-Addy's Wedding Quilt, Kristen Snowbound, Samantha and the Missing Pearls,… (2001) 1 copy
The Night Flyers 1 copy
AMERICAN GIRL FELICITY 1774 1 copy
Who Was Helen Keller? 1 copy
Golly and the Flip-Flop Flap 1 copy
The Lost Stuff 1 copy
Which Animal Is Which? 1 copy
The Bad Chipmunk 1 copy
Annabel-Isabel 1 copy
Will you Show Me How? 1 copy
Happy Birthday, Josephina! 1 copy
Goddesses and Gardens 1 copy
Samantha Learns a Lesson 1 copy
Molly's Story Collection 1 copy
Felicity's Story Collection 1 copy
Beforever Marryellen 1954 1 copy
Felicity and Elizabeth Books and Magnetic Mini World (Meet Felicity and Very Funny, Elizabeth books, Felicity's… (2006) 1 copy
Toc's Chicken Pox 1 copy
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- Birthdate
- 1951-09-12
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Places of residence
- Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
Mount Kisco, New York, USA - Education
- Yale University
Harvard University - Occupations
- children's book author
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