After growing up in Pittsburgh, with weekends and summers at her grandmother’s home in Punxsutawney, Florence Parry Heide graduated from UCLA, held unimportant jobs in New York for three years (unimportant jobs, yes, but: New York? ! ) until meeting and marrying Captain Don Heide. After the War (WWII, not the Civil War), they moved to Wisconsin, where Don practiced law, and Florence practiced having babies. When their five children started school, she started to write, and once she started, she couldn’t stop. She had published many books for children, picture books, juvenile novels, poetry, and many lyrics for songs.
Titles
GIANTS ARE VERY BRAVE PEOPLE (Holiday House, 2023)
THE SHRINKING OF TREEHORN, 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION (Holiday House)
FABLES YOU SHOULDN’T PAY ANY ATTENTION TO (2017)
TALES FOR THE PERFECT CHILD (Atheneum, 2017)
THE SPOTLIGHT MYSTERIES
MYSTERY AT BLUE RIDGE CEMETERY (Whitman 2013)
MYSTERY OF THE BEWITCHED BOOKMOBILE (Whitman, 2013)
MYSTERY OF THE MELTING SNOWMAN (Whitman 2013)
Poetry Books
GRIM AND GHASTLY GOING ON
OH, GROW UP (with Roxanne Heide Pierce)
IT’S ABOUT TIME! (with Roxanne Heide Pierce and Judith Heide Gilliland)
Mysteries
THE SPOTLIGHT MYSTERIES
Mystery at Blue Ridge Cemetery (Whitman 2013)
Mystery of the Bewitched Bookmobile (Whitman, 2013)
and Mystery of the Melting Snowman (Whitman 2013)
THE BRILLSTONE MYSTERIES
Picture Books
THE REVENGE OF DILLWEED (with Roxanne Heide Pierce)
ALWAYS LISTEN TO YOUR MOTHER (with Roxanne Heide Pierce, David Fisher Parry and Jeanne Parry)
THE ONE AND ONLY MARIGOLD
PRINCESS HYACINTH (The Surprising Tale of a Girl Who Floated)
THE HOUSE OF WISDOM (with Judith Heide Gilliland)
THE THREE HORN BOOKS: THE SHRINKING OF TREEHORN
THE SHRINKING OF TREEHORN
TREEHORN’S TREASURE
TREEHORN’S WISH
THE TREEHORN TRILOGY
THE DAY OF AHMED’S SECRET (with Judith Heide Gilliland)
SAME AND THE TIME OF TROUBLES (with Judith Heide Gilliland)
SOME THINGS ARE SCARY
THAT’S WHAT FRIENDS ARE FOR (with Sylvia Van Clief)
A PROMISE IS A PROMISE
THE PROBLEM WITH PULCIFER
TALES FOR THE PERFECT CHILD
FABLES YOU SHOULDN’T PAY ATTENTION TO (with Sylvia Van Clief)
SOUND OF SUNSHINE, SOUND OF RAIN
TIO ARMANDO (with Roxanne Heide Pierce)
A MONSTER IS COMING! A MONSTER IS COMING! (with Roxanne Heide Pierce)