She illustrated 50 to 60 textbooks as well. She studied the English language 'by the trial and error method' while working as an illustrator and artist to support herself (she designed book covers and greeting cards, illustrated magazines and sheet music, and also painted lampshades and designed fashions).

In 1922 Seredy moved from Budapest to the United States originally it was simply to visit. I have at one time or another dabbled in each career, adding occasionally a few ideas of my own.'

My collective family had in turn decided that I was to be a teacher, a nurse, a dress designer, plain wife complete with children, a thorn in the side of any government in power.,a painter. Seredy once recalled, 'I had the usual number of grandparents, but in my case the combination was unusual because one was French, one German, one Slovakian, and one Turkish.I grew up in an atmosphere charged with highly individual opinions. After the war she illustrated several books in Hungary. During World War I, she went to Paris and served for two years as a nurse in frontline hospitals, an experience which left her ill in body and spirit, and caused her to become a confirmed pacifist. She attended the Academy of Art in Budapest for six years, receiving an art teacher's diploma. She was the only child of Louis Peter Seredy, a well-known Hungarian teacher and storyteller, and his wife, Anna Ireny. Kate Seredy (pronounced sher-edy) was born November 10, 1899 in Budapest, Hungary. The self-portrait in crayonwhich I find delightfulwas found on Bookology. The black-and-white photo was on several of her book jackets. I wished to concatinate all these entries because there is so little information about Seredy on the internet. The penultimate paragraph analyzing Seredy's books is verbatim from. The quotation about her family came from 100 Years of Children's Book Week Posters by Leonard S. The biography below has been distilled from entries from, , and Bookology, and is not my original writing, except for small connecting passages, and some quotations.

There was previously a tribute page to her online, but it no longer exists. Here I have collected all the data I have found in one place. I put this page together because I have been reading Kate Seredy since I found The Good Master in my elementary school library in the mid-1960s, and was continually frustrated by having to go to half-a-dozen sites to find info on her.

The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy