Author:Edward Eager
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As available at LC Online Catalog 2016-01-14, Library of Congress catalog records suggest that Eager used his full name Edward McMaken Eager as the writer of lyrics for theatrical works and used Edward Eager as the writer of children's fiction.
Search for "Eager, Edward" reveals 36 records:
- Eager, Edward McMaken (9)
- Eager, Edward (28)
The 9 catalog items credited to Edward McMaken Eager are records of materials associated with 4 theatrical works with lyrics by Eager (termed in their main titles an operatic comedy, a musical entertainment, an opera, and a musical play).
The 28 catalog items credited to Edward Eager apparently comprise 3 records associated with 3 more theatrical works and 25 records of editions of 10 children's books.
The 10 children books are all seven novels in the Magic series (now ISFDB Series 32265, Edward Eager's Tales of Magic) and three picture books, probably, of which two are in ISFDB.
The three probable picture books in LC Online Catalog:
- Red Head, illus. Louis Slobodkin1054 (Houghton Mifflin, 1951) LCCN 51-7699
- Mouse Manor, illus. Beryl Bailey-Jones (Ariel Books, c1952) LCCN 52-8344
- Playing Possum: Story, illus. Paul Galdone7829 (Putnam, 1955) LCCN 55-5784
The first is 24 pages and the others are unpaged.
In ISFDB, Red Head is a 24-page chapbook (E.M. Hale, 1961), T1274940; Mouse Manor is a novel (Pellegrini & Cudahy, 1952), T178839; neither illustrator is named.