Cathy Leonard calling

11 August 1904 – 23 July 2005

Catherine Woolley, known also by the pen name Jane Thayer, was an American children's writer. Thayer wrote 86 books for children, many of which (*The Blueberry Pie Elf*, *The Puppy Who Wanted a Boy*, *The Popcorn Dragon*) have become classics. She was so prolific that her editor suggested she publish some of her works under a pen name. Thus, Woolley authored picture books under the name Jane Thayer, her grandmother's name, while writing books for older children and adults under her real name. A 1927 graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles, she worked as an advertising copywriter and freelance writer in New York City during the late 1920s and early 1930s. From 1933 to 1940, s…