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Valerie Worth was born on 29 October, 1933 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, is an American poet. Discover Valerie Worth's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 60 years old?

Popular As Valerie Worth
Occupation Writer and poet
Age 60 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 29 October, 1933
Birthday 29 October
Birthplace Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Date of death 31 July, 1994
Died Place Clinton, New York, United States
Nationality United States

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1933

Valerie Worth Bahlke (October 29, 1933 – July 31, 1994) was an American poet and writer of children's books under her maiden name, Valerie Worth.

Valerie Worth was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and grew up in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, where her father taught biology at Swarthmore College.

1947

In 1947, the family moved to Tampa, Florida for four years, and then spent a year in Bangalore, India.

1955

Worth returned to Swarthmore for college, where in 1955 she received an English Degree with High Honors.

Shortly after graduation, she married George Bahlke.

After a few peripatetic years, the couple eventually settled in Clinton, New York, where her husband taught at Kirkland College.

At an informal writers group, Worth met Natalie Babbitt, whose husband, Samuel Fisher Babbitt, was the president of the university.

Babbitt had published a few books at the time and recommended Worth's poems to her editor, Michael di Capua at Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

1972

Small Poems, Worth's first published collection, came out in 1972 accompanied by pen and ink illustrations by Babbitt; Babbitt also illustrated her subsequent volumes of "Small Poems", More Small Poems, Still More Small Poems, All the Small Poems, and All the Small Poems and Fourteen More.

1991

In 1991, Worth was awarded the NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children by the National Council of Teachers of English.

1992

At Christmastime, a collection published in 1992, was illustrated by Antonio Frasconi and published by Michael Di Capua Books.

In addition to poetry Worth also published two young adult novels, Gypsy Gold and Fox Hill, as well as Curlicues: The Fortunes of Two Pug Dogs, a picture book also illustrated by Babbitt.

2013

Two posthumous poetry collections, Peacock and Other Poems and Animal Poems, were illustrated by Steve Jenkins, and Pug and Other Animal Poems, also illustrated by Jenkins, was scheduled to be published in 2013.