All we know, Midnight. The best of all we know. For Chestry Valley and its master we loved. For Nana. For Sugarloaf and Brimstone Farm. For Pop and Mom and Tom. For the foals to come. For yesterday and for all tomorrows, we dance the best we know. For good-by.

Kate Seredy died March 7 1975 in Middletown New York at the age of 78. 1937
An Ear for Uncle Emil by E. R.

She won the Newbery Medal once the Newbery Honor twice the Caldecott Medal once and Lewis Carroll Shelf Award. Kate Seredy (1899–1975) was a Hungarian-born writer and illustrator of children's books.