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Lettie Cook Van Derveer
Known for lively school and holiday entertainments, this early 20th-century writer created plays, recitations, games, and party books for children and amateur performers. Her work captures a practical, cheerful style of community fun that still feels vivid today.
1 Audiobook
A day at Happy Hollow School
by Lettie Cook Van Derveer
About the author
Lettie Cook Van Derveer was an American author whose surviving books center on children's amusements, school programs, and holiday celebrations. Catalog records and digital library listings connect her with works such as A Day at Happy Hollow School, Christmas Doings, Halloween Happenings, Any-day Entertainments, and Little Folks Games and Parties.
Her books suggest a writer interested in helping teachers, families, and local groups stage simple performances and celebrations. Rather than focusing on novels, she appears to have specialized in short plays, dialogues, recitations, party ideas, and other material meant to be used aloud and shared in groups.
Available memorial records identify her as Lettie Cook Vanderveer, born in 1881 in Monmouth County, New Jersey, and dying in 1947 in Atlantic County, New Jersey. Even though biographical details are scarce, the body of work that remains gives a clear picture of an author devoted to making children's social life and community entertainment more imaginative and enjoyable.