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From: Ginny Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 12:18:00 -600
If you had the opportunity to meet and hear either Helen Oxenbury or John Burningham, what would you want to say? ask? Those of us who live within a reasonable traveling distance of Madison, Wisconsin, will have that opportunity on Tuesday, June 20, when Ms. Oxenbury and Mr. Burningham visit Madison.
If you plan to meet them next week, which of their books are you especially thinking about as you prepare for their visit? why? Please comment on CCBC-NET, if you wish.
If you live beyond that distance, please assist those of us who will meet these two book creators whose visions have stimulated the imaginations of children on both sides of the Atlantic for several generations. Tell everyone on CCBC-NET what you admire about the works of either artist. Which specific book intrigues you? why? We will, in turn, try to share some of the insights we gain after we hear them speak.
Do you need details about the Oxenbury/Burningham schedule in Madison on Tuesday, June 20? Briefly, as guests of the Friends of the CCBC, they will be speaking at 7:00 p.m. in the auditorium of the State Historical Society, 816 State St. This will be a free event, open to the public. In addition, they will make separate autographing appearances at each of the Pooh Corner Book Stores (phone 608%6U8) earlier the same day. Questions about the arrangements? Just ask.
I've listed some of their books below, as well as citing only a few of the published materials about each person. Most of their books and copies of the above materials are pulled out for easy looking in the CCBC.
Ms. Oxenbury's books include her own Numbers of Things, ABC of Things, It's My Birthday, the Tom and Pippo books and many, many baby
& board books (published in the U.S.A. by Candlewick, Aladdin, & Dial.) She's noted, as well, for the illustrations she created for the works of others, including Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark; Brian Alderson's Cakes and Custard; Margaret Mahy's The Dragon of an Ordinary Family; Martin Waddell's Farmer Duck; Eugene Trivizas' The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig; and a 1968 adaptation of The Great Big Enormous Turnip by Alexei Tolstoy.
Mr. Burningham's books include Mr. Gumpy's Outing; Mr. Gumpy's Motor Car; Come away from the Water, Shirley; Time to get out of the bath, Shirley; The Shopping Basket; John Patrick Norman McHennessy - the boy who was always late; Hey! Get Off Our Train; Aldo; Granpa; Would you rather...; Courtney; and every now and then some baby books, most recently for Candlewick. He, too, has illustrated some works of others but not many; they include an edition of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows and Around the World in Eighty Days.
About Helen Oxenbury: consult the autobiographical article "The Artist at Work" in The Horn Book (Sept/Oct 1992) and the Gale publications.
About John Burningham: consult the article "Audacious Books and Liberal Education" by Olga Richard and Donnarae MacCann in Wilson Library Bulletin (May 1994) and the Gale publications.
About both of them: consult The Telling Line by Douglas Martin
(Delacourt, 1989) and Artists of the Page by Sylvia and Kenneth Marantz (McFarland, 1992).
If you have written about either of them or any of their books, please don't hesitate to provide CCBC-NET subscribers with your own citation(s) or those for other sources about which you want us to know. We look forward to your comments, questions and observations.
Ginny Moore Kruse Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) A Library of the School of Education University of Wisconsin - Madison gmkruse at macc.wisc.edu phone: 608&3721 fax: 608&2I33
Received on Thu 15 Jun 1995 01:18:00 PM CDT
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 12:18:00 -600
If you had the opportunity to meet and hear either Helen Oxenbury or John Burningham, what would you want to say? ask? Those of us who live within a reasonable traveling distance of Madison, Wisconsin, will have that opportunity on Tuesday, June 20, when Ms. Oxenbury and Mr. Burningham visit Madison.
If you plan to meet them next week, which of their books are you especially thinking about as you prepare for their visit? why? Please comment on CCBC-NET, if you wish.
If you live beyond that distance, please assist those of us who will meet these two book creators whose visions have stimulated the imaginations of children on both sides of the Atlantic for several generations. Tell everyone on CCBC-NET what you admire about the works of either artist. Which specific book intrigues you? why? We will, in turn, try to share some of the insights we gain after we hear them speak.
Do you need details about the Oxenbury/Burningham schedule in Madison on Tuesday, June 20? Briefly, as guests of the Friends of the CCBC, they will be speaking at 7:00 p.m. in the auditorium of the State Historical Society, 816 State St. This will be a free event, open to the public. In addition, they will make separate autographing appearances at each of the Pooh Corner Book Stores (phone 608%6U8) earlier the same day. Questions about the arrangements? Just ask.
I've listed some of their books below, as well as citing only a few of the published materials about each person. Most of their books and copies of the above materials are pulled out for easy looking in the CCBC.
Ms. Oxenbury's books include her own Numbers of Things, ABC of Things, It's My Birthday, the Tom and Pippo books and many, many baby
& board books (published in the U.S.A. by Candlewick, Aladdin, & Dial.) She's noted, as well, for the illustrations she created for the works of others, including Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark; Brian Alderson's Cakes and Custard; Margaret Mahy's The Dragon of an Ordinary Family; Martin Waddell's Farmer Duck; Eugene Trivizas' The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig; and a 1968 adaptation of The Great Big Enormous Turnip by Alexei Tolstoy.
Mr. Burningham's books include Mr. Gumpy's Outing; Mr. Gumpy's Motor Car; Come away from the Water, Shirley; Time to get out of the bath, Shirley; The Shopping Basket; John Patrick Norman McHennessy - the boy who was always late; Hey! Get Off Our Train; Aldo; Granpa; Would you rather...; Courtney; and every now and then some baby books, most recently for Candlewick. He, too, has illustrated some works of others but not many; they include an edition of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows and Around the World in Eighty Days.
About Helen Oxenbury: consult the autobiographical article "The Artist at Work" in The Horn Book (Sept/Oct 1992) and the Gale publications.
About John Burningham: consult the article "Audacious Books and Liberal Education" by Olga Richard and Donnarae MacCann in Wilson Library Bulletin (May 1994) and the Gale publications.
About both of them: consult The Telling Line by Douglas Martin
(Delacourt, 1989) and Artists of the Page by Sylvia and Kenneth Marantz (McFarland, 1992).
If you have written about either of them or any of their books, please don't hesitate to provide CCBC-NET subscribers with your own citation(s) or those for other sources about which you want us to know. We look forward to your comments, questions and observations.
Ginny Moore Kruse Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) A Library of the School of Education University of Wisconsin - Madison gmkruse at macc.wisc.edu phone: 608&3721 fax: 608&2I33
Received on Thu 15 Jun 1995 01:18:00 PM CDT
