# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lois-lenski
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:14:46.685Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lois-lenski"
name: "Lois Lenski"
slug: "lois-lenski"
description: "Lois Lenore Lenski Covey was a Newbery Medal-winning author and illustrator of picture books and children's literature. Beginning in 1927 with her first books, Skipping Village and Jack Horner's Pie: A Book of Nursery Rhymes, Lenski published 98 books, including several posthumously. Her work includes children's picture books and illustrated chapter books, songbooks, poetry, short stories, her 1972 autobiography, Journey into Childhood, and essays about books and children's literature. Her best-known bodies of work include the \"Mr. Small\" series of picture books (1934–62); her \"Historical\" series of novels, including the Newbery Honor-winning titles Phebe Fairchild: Her Book (1936) and Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison (1941); and her \"Regional\" series, including Newbery Medal-winning Strawberry Girl (1945) and Children's Book Award-winning Judy's Journey (1947)."
tagline: "American children's writer (1893-1974)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/High_school_graduation_photo_of_Lois_Lenski.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1893-10-14"
deathDate: "1974-09-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.91
  momentum:             8.03921568627451
  historical:           3.761197333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D8%A6%DB%8C%D8%B3_%D9%84%D9%86%D8%B3%DA%A9%DB%8C"
    title: "لوئیس لنسکی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois_Lenski"
    title: "Lois Lenski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AC%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B9%E3%82%AD%E3%83%BC"
    title: "ロイス・レンスキー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois_Lenski"
    title: "Lois Lenski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6668302"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump