Claire Huchet Bishop (30 December 1898 – 13 March 1993)[1] was a Swiss children's writer and librarian.

She wrote two Newbery Medal runners-up, Pancakes-Paris (1947) and All Alone (1953), and she won the Josette Frank Award for Twenty and Ten (1952).

Her first English-language children's book became a classic: The Five Chinese Brothers, illustrated by Kurt Wiese and published in 1938, was named to the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award list in 1959.

[4] After marrying the American concert pianist Frank Bishop,[2] she moved to the United States, worked for the New York City Public Library from 1932–36,[5] and was an apologist for Roman Catholicism and an opponent[2] of antisemitism.

[6] After residing in New York for 50 years, Bishop returned to France and died in Paris in 1993.