Helen Reid Cross

Helen Reid Cross is credited as the author of Humpty Dumpty’s Little Son, a work that appears in library and public-domain catalogs and was first published in the early 1900s.

Reliable online sources offer only sparse information about her life, and I could not confirm fuller details such as her dates, background, or a broader bibliography from strong biographical references. That makes her one of those authors known more through the survival of a book than through a well-documented public biography.

For readers, that mystery can be part of the appeal: her name is tied to a piece of vintage children’s literature that has lasted long enough to be preserved and rediscovered by later generations.