Across Five Aprils was given the Charles W. Follett Award in 1964, an award provided by the Follett Publishing Company for the best book published by the company in the previous year.
Up a Road Slowly was chosen as part of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) Honor List in 1970. Because her books have continued to uphold high literary standards, Hunt has also been honored with the Certificate in Recognition of Contribution to Children's Literature at the Twelfth Annual Children's Literature Festival at Central Missouri State University in 1980.
Irene Hunt was born 18 May 1907, in Pontiac, Illinois. At the age of six weeks, she moved with her parents, Franklin P. and Sarah Land Hunt, to Newton, Illinois. Her father died when she was seven, and she and her mother moved to the nearby farm home of her grandparents. Her lonely childhood was brightened by her kindly grandfather's stories, which later influenced her writing. The stories she enjoyed most were those of his childhood during the Civil War, and these provided the framework for her first novel.
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