Between 19 she produced 12 additional children's novels, including The Court of the Stone Children (1973) and the semi-autobiographical five book Julia Redfern series (1971–1988). With the success of the Mushroom Planet books, Cameron focused on writing for children. this resulted in her popular series The Mushroom Planet. She did not start writing children's books until her son asked him to write one starring him as a character. It was well received by critics, but didn't sell well. Her first book came out in 1950, based on her experience as a librarian. She married Ian Cameron, a printmaker and publisher, in 1934 and the couple had a son, David, in 1944. In 1930, she started working at the Los Angeles Public Library and later worked as a research librarian for the Los Angeles Board of Education and two different advertising companies. She attended UCLA and the Art Center School of Los Angeles. She credits her English mother's love of story telling for her inspiration to write and make up stories. At 16, she moved with her mother and stepfather to Los Angeles. After three years, they moved to Berkeley, California.
Her father farmed and her mother ran a hotel. Born in Winnipeg, Canada in 1912, her family then moved to South Charleston, Ohio when she was 3 years old. Eleanor Frances Butler Cameron (1912 - 1996) was a Canadian children's author who spent most of her life in California.
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