Showing posts with label AUTHOR Robert McCloskey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AUTHOR Robert McCloskey. Show all posts
25 May 2017

The Missing McCloskeys

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Tonight I took in the Robert McCloskey exhibit at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts through 18 June. And I realized I deeply know only half t...
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15 September 2014

Another Childhood Illusion Shattered

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Tonight I attended Leonard Marcus’s talk about Robert McCloskey on the centenary of the author-illustrator’s birth. (It turns out he was b...
26 September 2012

Birthday for Ducklings

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This Saturday, 29 September, the Friends of the Public Garden in Boston will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the installation of Nancy S...
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19 October 2010

Homer Price: “a universal and delightful brat”?!

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Eric Gugler began a short essay in the November 1943 Horn Book like this: When I thumb through this decidedly provocative bunch of illustr...
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07 April 2009

I Think This One Would Be Named Thwack

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Apparently another bunch of collegiate drunks have stolen another of the Make Way for Ducklings statues from Boston Common. If events proc...
02 March 2009

The Pitfalls of Picking an Official State Children’s Book

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The Columbus Dispatch is reporting on an Ohio legislator's proposal to make Robert McCloskey 's Lentil the official children'...
02 December 2008

Countless Bear Encounters

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I heartily enjoyed teacher Mrs. G's story of reading Robert McCloskey 's Blueberries for Sal to a group of third-graders, some of ...
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22 November 2007

Bronze Lentil

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Hamilton, Ohio, calls itself the "City of Sculpture." Among the many realistic bronze statues in its public spaces is this render...
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11 November 2007

Balloons and Other Ways Comics Show the Invisible

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Probably the most visible hallmark of comics style is the use of speech balloons . For centuries artists have conveyed the idea that people ...
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15 May 2006

Homer Price, small-town hero

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One of the models I keep coming back to for some of my stories are two collections of tall tales by Robert McCloskey : Homer Price (1943) a...