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Ursula Moray Williams.

Writer · United Kingdom · b. 1911

Ursula Moray Williams (1911–2006): canonical British children's author behind Gobbolino the Witch's Cat and The Adventures of the Little Wooden Horse — gentle, in-print-for-eighty-years middle-grade fantasy for ages 6–10.

Ursula Moray Williams (1911–2006) was a British author best known for Gobbolino the Witch's Cat (1942) and The Adventures of the Little Wooden Horse (1938), gentle, slightly old-fashioned middle-grade fantasy adventures that have remained continuously in print for over eighty years. Moray Williams wrote over seventy children's books across her career. Her voice is warm, observational and gentle, in the early-twentieth-century British children's-fiction tradition. A canonical-classic British children's author for ages 6–10.