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Maude M. Grant
1876–1941
A Michigan teacher turned writer, she created children’s books and poems that blended storytelling with lessons about everyday life, history, and other cultures. Her best-known work, Windmills and Wooden Shoes, introduces young readers to the Netherlands through an inviting, early-20th-century lens.
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Windmills and wooden shoes
by Maude M. Grant
About the author
Born in Monroe, Michigan, in 1876, she was identified in library and book records as Maude Margaret Grant. She worked as a teacher before retiring, and she continued to be remembered both as an educator and as a writer.
Her published work includes children's books such as Windmills and Wooden Shoes (1919) and Pastime Stories for Boys and Girls (1924). She also wrote verse and songs, and her writing often had a gentle, instructional quality aimed at young readers.
Grant died in 1941 in Michigan. Though she is not widely known today, her work survives through library collections and public-domain editions, giving modern readers a window into the kind of educational and imaginative reading offered to children in the early twentieth century.