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The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright
by Jean Nathan  
Powells.com Staff Pick The fey daughter of a successful portrait artist and sister to a fishing lure inventor, Dare Wright conducted her life like an actress in an autobiographical production. Juxtaposed between innocence and erotica she created nineteen children's books, had...
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Show and Tell: The Fine Art of Picture Book Illustration
by Dilys Evans Publisher Comments For over 30 years, Dilys Evans has been deeply involved in the fine art of children's book illustration. In 1980 she founded The Original Art, an annual exhibition in New York featuring the best children's book illustration of the year. Now, in this...
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Robert Cormier: Daring to Disturb the Universe
by Patty Campbell Publisher Comments Presents a literary analysis of Cormier's novels, which defied the constraints of traditional young adult literature, revealing how he has encouraged generations of young readers, through his writings, to disturb their own universe. Simultaneous....
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Golden Legacy: How Golden Books Won Children's Hearts, Changed Publishing Forever, and Became an American Icon Along the Way
by Leonard S. Marcus Publisher Comments THE YEAR 2007 marks the 65th anniversary of a bold experiment: the launch of the Little Golden Books during the dark days of World War II. At a time when the literacy rate was not nearly as high as it is now - and privation was felt by nearly all...
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L. Frank Baum: Creator of Oz: A Biography
by Katharine M Rogers Publisher Comments Since it was first introduced over a hundred years ago in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum's world of Oz has become one of the most enduring and beloved creations in children's literature. It has influenced numerous prominent writers and...
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I Am Scout: The Biography of Harper Lee
by Charles Shields Publisher Comments To Kill a Mockingbird is one of the most widely read novels in American literature. It’s also a perennial favorite in highschool English classrooms across the nation. Yet onetime author Harper Lee is a mysterious figure who leads a very private...
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On Writing for Children & Other People
by Julius Lester Publisher Comments For the past forty-seven years I have devoted most of my time and energy to writing. It has been a vocation in the original sense of the word, that is a religious calling, one I was helpless to deny. For me writing has never been about self-expression...
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A Boy Named Shel: The Life and Times of Shel Silverstein
by Lisa Rogak Publisher Comments A Boy Named Shel, Lisa Rogak tells the full story of a life as antic and adventurous as any of his creations. A man with an incurable case of wanderlust, Shel kept homes on both coasts and many places in between — and enjoyed regular stays in the...
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Artist to Artist: 23 Major Illustrators Talk to Children about Their Art
by Eric Carle Museum Of Picture Book Art (cor) Publisher Comments In this remarkable and beautiful anthology featuring the likes of Maurice Sendak, Robert Sabuda, Rosemary Wells, and Eric Carle, twenty-three of the most honored and beloved artists in childrens literature talk informally to childrensharing secrets about...
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Children's Books and Their Creators
by Anita Silvey Publisher Comments 'Unique in its coverage of contemporary American children\'s literature, Children\'s Books and Their Creators is a timely single-volume reference covering the books our children are - or could be - reading now, from board books to young adult novels...
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The Making of a Writer
by Joan Lowery Nixon Synopsis Responding to readers who have written to her to ask how they, too, can become published writers someday, the noted author presents this memoir and shares anecdotes, advice, and incidents from her childhood that helped her to grow and develop as a writer....
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No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War
by Anita Lobel Publisher Comments The beloved Caldecott Honor artist now recounts a tale of vastly different kind -- her own achingly potent memoir of a childhood of flight, imprisonment, and uncommon bravery in Nazi-occupied Poland. Anita Lobel was barely five when the war began and...
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An Intimate Anthology
by Louisa May Alcott Publisher Comments In this intimate anthology of letters, poems, stories, and other personal and literary writing by Louisa May Alcott, an often surprising portrait emerges of this pioneering writer. The author and her world are brought even more vividly to life with rare...
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Out of the Shadows: An Artist's Journey
by Neil Waldman Publisher Comments The author, an award-winning illustrator, reveals how his passion for art emerged in the kitchen of his family's Bronx apartment where he discovered the work of Vincent Van Gogh and the ability to use painting and drawing as a means to escape the anger...
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Nielsen's Fairy Tale Illustrations in Full Color
by Kay Nielsen Publisher Comments Danish-American artist Kay Nielsen is famed for his versions of stories by the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen as well as the Nordic fables recounted in East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon. This enchanting compilation draws upon Nielsen's...
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The Illustrator's Notebook
by Mohieddine Ellabbad Publisher Comments Through simple words and gorgeous images, Mohieddin Ellabbad reflects on his childhood and on the cultural influences that led him to become one of Egypt’s finest illustrators. Using his own creative awakening as an example, he encourages young...
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The Dreaming Game
by Philip B Kunhardt Publisher Comments A loving and inspiring portrait of Dorothy Meserve Kunhardt, an extraordinary woman who brought an intensity and originality to the life around her. The Dreaming Game is Philip B. Kunhardt's tribute to his mother, a woman of rare vision and intellect...
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J. M. Barrie & the Lost Boys
by Andrew Birkin Publisher Comments J. M. Barrie, novelist, playwright, and author of Peter Pan or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, led a life almost as magical and interesting as his famous creation. Childless in his marriage, Barrie grew close to the five young boys of the Llewelyn Davies...
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Side by Side: Five Favorite Picture-Book Teams Go to Work
by Leonard Marcus Publisher Comments Have you ever wondered how a picture book is made? The process is similar to the way we play a team sport, put on a play, or build a sandcastle-through collaboration. Writers and illustrators collaborate in a variety of ways. Sometimes they start as...
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The Ink-keeper's Apprentice
by Allen Say Publisher Comments 'Thirteen-year-old Kiyoi, an apprentice to the famous cartoonist, Noro Shinpei, tries to develop his talent and become self-reliant, in this novel based upon the author\'s own boyhood in Japan.'...
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