![]() ![]() ![]() Novelizations of the Disney movies, The Rescuers (1977) and The Rescuers Down Under (1990) are also available. Margery Sharp (1905-1991) published fifteen novels for adults before writing The Rescuers (1959), her first book for children. Bernard into Battle 1978 (reviewer's note: violence, not recommended for small children) The Rescuers 1959 (quite different from the movie)ĩ. It will take everything they’ve got and a good deal more to escape with their own lives, not to mention the poet. Her most famous work is The Rescuers series about a mouse named Miss Bianca, which was adapted in two animated feature films, The Rescuers and The Rescuers Down Under.ġ. She produced 26 novels for adults, 14 stories for children, 4 plays, 2 mysteries, and many short stories. During World War II she served as an Army Education Lecturer, travelling and lecturing and continuing to write. In 1938 she married Major Geoffrey Castle, an aeronautical engineer. ![]() After school she became a full-time writer, writing short stories and working on a novel. She studied art for one year at Westminster Art School. In 1925 she went to Bedford College, earning a general arts degree and then a BA in French. ![]() She attended Chiswick House High School in Malta in 1912-1913, and Streatham Hill High School 1914-1923. Margery Sharp was born Salisbury, Wiltshire. ![]()
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