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Author
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xi, 201 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
This is the first complete biography of acclaimed children's author and illustrator Ezra Jack Keats (1916-1983). Drawing extensively from his unpublished autobiography and letters, it covers the breadth of Keats's life, taking readers through his early years as the child of immigrant parents, his introduction to illustration and writing, and the full arc of his remarkable career. This volume presents a time capsule of the political, social, and economic...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
37 pages : color illustrations, facsimiles ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Quick! If you don't move fast, you're going to miss him -- there he goes-- Randolph Caldecott, future famous illustrator. His sketchbook is full of hurly-burly; wild weather, frisky animals and people so sprightly they can barely hold on to the pages. But in the 1850s, there are no children's books like that. Not yet. Many are published, but their pictures look still, full of pretty poses and cluttered scenery. No one has imagined how much fun an...
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