Carol Kendall (writer)

Carol Seeger "Siggy" Kendall (September 13, 1917 – July 28, 2012) was an American writer of children's books.

Commenting on her career Kendall once said: Those six brothers were as fine a set of boys and young men as one could want, but they did talk a lot.

By the time I made my belated appearance into the family, they were so well gifted in the flow of conversation that there were few pauses for the addition of one small female voice.

Family recollections would indicate that I was just one sentence short of being completely mute—my single comment of record (at age four) was "Thank goodness that noisy thing is gone."

The noisy thing was my brother Arden, whose goings and comings were as turbulent as a high wind gusting through the house.

I am still not adept at entering conversations when there are more than three competing talkers, but I don't mind much because I know I can put my own offerings into the computer and fish them out when the time is ripe.