Gertrude Crampton (June 26, 1909 – June 25, 1996) was an author of children's books, including Tootle (1945) and Scuffy the Tugboat (1946).
[1] She received her teaching credentials from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1928[2] and taught in the Mason Consolidated Schools[3] in Erie, Michigan in the 1950s and 1960s.
As of 2001, Tootle was the all-time third best-selling hardback children's book in English; Scuffy was eighth.
[4] She also wrote The Large and Growly Bear, published in the Golden Beginning Reader series in 1961, and illustrated by John P. Miller.
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