author

Beulah Mary Crocker

Best known for the charming children's tale An Exciting New Year's Day in Jungletown, this early 20th-century writer created a playful animal world full of winter games, mischief, and gentle fun. Very little biographical information appears to survive online, which gives the work an added air of old-book mystery.

1 Audiobook

An exciting New Year's day in Jungletown

An exciting New Year's day in Jungletown

by Beulah Mary Crocker

About the author

Beulah Mary Crocker is a little-known author whose name is now mostly connected with An Exciting New Year's Day in Jungletown, a children's story from the early 1900s. The book follows the animals of Jungletown through a lively New Year's celebration, with races, snow sports, and a light, cheerful tone that fits classic read-aloud fiction for young readers.

Publicly available records are sparse, but library and ebook catalog listings show that the work has continued to circulate well beyond its original publication. Project Gutenberg also lists Sutherland, Beulah Crocker as an alias, suggesting her name may also have appeared in that form.

Because so little confirmed personal history is easy to verify, the books themselves remain the clearest introduction to her voice: warm, whimsical, and happily rooted in the tradition of imaginative animal stories for children.