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Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss : how an unlikely couple found love, dodged the FBI, and transformed children's literature /
Crockett Johnson (born David Johnson Leisk, 1906-1975) and Ruth Krauss (1901-1993) were a husband-and-wife team that created such popular children's books as The Carrot Seed and How to Make an Earthquake. Separately, Johnson created the enduring children's classic Harold and the Purple Cra...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
©2012.
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| Colección: | Children's Literature Association series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Introduction; 1. Ruth Krauss's Charmed Childhood; 2. Becoming Crockett Johnson; 3. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman; 4. Punching the Clock and Turning Left; 5. First Draft; 6. Crockett and the Red Crayon; 7. "We Met, and That Was It!"; 8. Barnaby; 9. A Good Man and His Good Wife; 10. The Athens of South Norwalk; 11. Art and Politics; 12. At Home with Ruth and Dave; 13. The Big World and the Little House; 14. Artists Are to Watch; 15. The Art of Collaboration; 16. Harold; 17. Striking Out into New Areas of Experimentation; 18. New Adventures on Page and Screen.
- 19. "Hitting on All 24 Cylinders"20. Poet in the News, Cartoonist on TV; 21. Lorca Variations and Harold's ABC; 22. Provocateur and Philosopher; 23. Painting, Passports, and Protest; 24. Theorems in Color, Poems on Stage; 25. "You're Only as Old as Other People Think You Are"; 26. What Would Harold Do?; 27. Life after Dave; 28. Children Are to Love; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z.