Today’s children are not going to read what they are not interested in. What I try to show teachers is that all the skills needed to read can be taught outside of textbooks. In discussing her ideas about education she said, “Children’s rights are taken away from them when they enter school. She authored over 30 books at the time of her death.Īlways involved with education in some way, Peggy Parish did television pieces on preschool education and children’s books, wrote children’s book review columns, and led numerous in-service training workshops for teachers.
Though she never took a writing course, “writing stories for children came naturally.” She taught at the Dalton School in Manhattan for 15 years and published her first children's book while teaching third grade there.
It was at Dalton that she began to find ways to release her creative ideas and energy. After graduating from the University of South Carolina with a degree in English, she taught school in Oklahoma, Kentucky, and for more than fifteen years at the well-known, progressive Dalton School in New York City.
Peggy Parish knew what children like to read.
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