Peardon wrote books for children, especially The Work-Play Readers, for classroom use. She was also credited as a consultant on the short film Adventures of Bunny Rabbit (1937). She worked on another film produced by Encyclopedia Britannica, Navajo Children, with her colleagues Arthur I. Gates and Ernest Horn.[8] She was president of the Women's Faculty Club at Teachers College, Columbia University,[9] and spoke at educational meetings.[10]
Publications
Many of these titles were part of The Work-Play Readers, a set of primers for early readers, which she wrote in collaboration with Arthur I. Gates and other contributors.[11][12]
Adventures in a Big City (1931)
"Studies of Children's Interest in Reading" (1931, with Arthur I. Gates and Ina Craig Sartorius)[13]
Nick and Dick; Fun with Nick and Dick; and The Story Book of Nick and Dick (1936 and 1937, with Arthur I. Gates and Franklin T. Baker)[14]
Jim and Judy (1939, with Arthur I. Gates and Miriam Blanton Huber)[15]
Off we go (1939, with Arthur I. Gates and Miriam Blanton Huber)[16]
Wide wings (1939, with Arthur I. Gates and Miriam Blanton Huber)[17]
We Grow Up (1939, with Arthur I. Gates and Miriam Blanton Huber)[18]
Sing, canary, sing (1939, with Arthur I. Gates, Cyrus Leroy Baldridge, and Allegra Ingleright)[20]
The Surprise Box (1939, with Arthur I. Gates and others)[21]
In Came Pinky (1939, with Arthur I. Gates and others)[22]
Elsie Elephant (1939, with Arthur I. Gates and others)[23]
Pueblo Indian stories (1940, with Arthur I. Gates and others)[24]
Fifty Winters Ago (1940, with Arthur I. Gates and Elizabeth D. Neill)[25]
The Pupil's Own Vocabulary Speller (1944, with Arthur I. Gates, Henry D. Rinsland, and Ina C. Sartorius)[26]
Tags and Twinkle (1945, with Arthur I. Gates, Miriam Blanton Huber, and Frank Seely Salisbury)[27]
Good Times Together (1953, with Arthur I. Gates)[28]
Robin fly south! (1953, with Arthur I. Gates and Charles Payzant)[29]
Sandy in the Green Mountains (1957, with Arthur I. Gates and others)[30]
The World I Know (1957, with Arthur I. Gates)[31][32]
Good Times Tomorrow (1957, with Arthur I. Gates)[33]
Personal life
Comegys married Canadian-born professor and college administrator Thomas Preston Peardon in 1926.[4][34] They had a son, Thomas Jr.[35] She died in 1988, aged 90 years, in Bridgewater, Connecticut.
^Gates, Arthur I; Huber, Miriam Blanton; Peardon, Celeste Comegys (1939). Jim and Judy. OCLC11180705.
^Gates, Arthur I; Huber, Miriam Blanton; Peardon, Celeste Comegys (1939). Off we go. New York: Macmillan. OCLC16413008.
^Gates, Arthur I; Huber, Miriam Blanton; Peardon, Celeste Comegys (1939). Wide wings. New York: Macmillan. OCLC3993735.
^Gates, Arthur I; Huber, Miriam Blanton; Peardon, Celeste Comegys (1939). We grow up. New York: Macmillan. OCLC4197276.
^Gates, Arthur I; Huber, Miriam Blanton; Peardon, Celeste Comegys; Baldridge, Cyrus Leroy (1939). Down our street. New York: Macmillan Co. OCLC14876359.
^Gates, Arthur I; Ingleright, Allegra; Peardon, Celeste Comegys; Baldridge, Cyrus Leroy (1939). Sing, canary, sing. Macmillan. OCLC9655280.
^Gates, Arthur I; Peardon, Celeste Comegys; Baldridge, Cyrus Leroy; Falls, C. B (1939). The surprise box. New York: Macmillan Co. OCLC1558363.
^Gates, Arthur I; Peardon, Celeste Comegys; Baldridge, Cyrus Leroy; Falls, C. B; Macmillan Company (1939). In came Pinky. New York: Macmillan. OCLC758269757.
^Gates, Arthur I; Brindl, Helen M; Peardon, Celeste Comegys; Baldridge, Cyrus Leroy; Falls, C. B (1939). Elsie elephant. New York: Macmillan Co. OCLC1862538.