Beatrix Potter
Biography: Helen Beatrix Potter ( 28 July 1866-22 December 1943) was an English witer, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist best know for herchildren's books featuring animals, such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit.
Born into a privileged hosehold, Potter was educated by governesses and grew up isolated from other children. She had numerous pets and spent holidays in Scotland and the Lake District, developing a love of landscape, flora and fauna, all of wich she closely observed and painted.
Thought Potter was typical of women of her generation in having limited opportunities for higher education, her study and watercolors of fungi led to her being widely respected in the field of mycology. In her thirties, Potter published the highly successful children's book, The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Potter began writting and illustrating children's books full-time.
With the proceeds from the books and legacy from an aunt, in 1905 Potter bought Hill Top Farm in Near Sawrey, a village in the Lake District, wich at that time was in Lancashire. Over the following decades, she purchased additional farms to preserve the unique hill country landscape.
In 1913, at the age of 47, she married William Heelis, a respected local solicitor from Hawkshead. Potter was also a prize-winning breeder of Herdwick sheep and a prosperous farmer keenly interested in land perservation. She continued to write and illustrate, and to desing spin-off merchandise based on her children's books for British publisher Warne, until the duties of land management and her diminishing eyesight made it difficult to continue.
Potter wrote about 30 books; the best known being her 24 children's tales. She died of pneumonia and heart sisease on 22 December 1943 at her home in Near Sawrey at age 77, leaving almost all her property to the National Trust. She is credited with preserving much of the land that now constitues the Lake District National Park. Potter's books continue to sell throughout the world in many languages with her stories being retold in song, film, ballet, and animation, and her life depicted in a feature film and television film.
Tales:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukpgObsabig
Biography: Helen Beatrix Potter ( 28 July 1866-22 December 1943) was an English witer, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist best know for herchildren's books featuring animals, such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit.
Born into a privileged hosehold, Potter was educated by governesses and grew up isolated from other children. She had numerous pets and spent holidays in Scotland and the Lake District, developing a love of landscape, flora and fauna, all of wich she closely observed and painted.
Thought Potter was typical of women of her generation in having limited opportunities for higher education, her study and watercolors of fungi led to her being widely respected in the field of mycology. In her thirties, Potter published the highly successful children's book, The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Potter began writting and illustrating children's books full-time.
With the proceeds from the books and legacy from an aunt, in 1905 Potter bought Hill Top Farm in Near Sawrey, a village in the Lake District, wich at that time was in Lancashire. Over the following decades, she purchased additional farms to preserve the unique hill country landscape.
In 1913, at the age of 47, she married William Heelis, a respected local solicitor from Hawkshead. Potter was also a prize-winning breeder of Herdwick sheep and a prosperous farmer keenly interested in land perservation. She continued to write and illustrate, and to desing spin-off merchandise based on her children's books for British publisher Warne, until the duties of land management and her diminishing eyesight made it difficult to continue.
Potter wrote about 30 books; the best known being her 24 children's tales. She died of pneumonia and heart sisease on 22 December 1943 at her home in Near Sawrey at age 77, leaving almost all her property to the National Trust. She is credited with preserving much of the land that now constitues the Lake District National Park. Potter's books continue to sell throughout the world in many languages with her stories being retold in song, film, ballet, and animation, and her life depicted in a feature film and television film.
Tales:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukpgObsabig
A. A. Milne
Biography: Alan Alexander Milne was born on January 18 in 1882 in London, England. He and his two older brothers were raised in London by their parents, Sarah Marie and John Vine Milne, the headmaster of a private school names Henley House.
Milne was educated at Westminster School in London and he studied mathematics and also edited and wrote for the student magazine Granta. Realizin that writing was his true vocation, he moved to London after his graduation in 1903. He began writing for the literary magazine Punch in 1906, and his eassys and humorous poetry were published in the magazine trought 1914.
Duuring his military service, Milne had writen his first play, a one-act farce titled Wurzel-Flummery.After the war, he achieved success as a playwright. His comedies of the eary 1920s. In 1929 he wrote a stage adaptation of Kenneth Gramae's classic children's book The Wind in the Willows, titled Toad of Toad Hall.
Milne's gratest and enduring successes, however, were his books Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) and The House at Pooh Corner (1928). These two volumes told the adventures of a young boy named Christopher Robin, after Milne's own son, and his animal playmates, who were inspired by the real Christopher Robin's stuffed toys. The adventures of Pooh and his friends in the Hundred Acre Wood, illustrated by artist Ernest H. Shepard, were all best-sellers and made Milne a household name.
Milne suffered from illness in the early 1950s and died at his home in Hartfield, East Sussex, England, on January 31, 1956. Winnie-the-Pooh and the othher characters of the Pooh stories have lived on as iconic figures in children's literature.
Tale of Winnie-the-Pooh:
Text of original Winnie-the-Pooh:
Todd Parr
Biography: Todd Parr was born July 9, 1962 in Rock Springs, Wyoming. He was always interested in art, yet as a student he failed art class which affected his self-confidence and consequently caoused him to stop painting.
In 1995, in order to once again pursue and artistc career, Parr moved to San Francisco. It was Wolf Gang Puck who gave Parr his first real break when he allowed Parr to display his paintings in his restaurant, Postrio. From there Parr went on to create merchandise for Macys and then his own clothing line for kids.
In 1998, Parr finally got into publishing, his work caught the eye of Megan Tingly, a Little Brown employee, who encouraged him to write a children's book. She was drawn this use of bold colors and simplistic style of painting.
Parr has kept true to these values. His work is based on simple principles such as, acceptance, differences, and empowerment, with the underlying theme being from children to feel better about themselves, perhaps because he himself was met with such resistance and struggles early on in his painting career. Throught easy to understand text he is able to reach children on their level and convey these complex concepts.
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Eric Carle
Biography: He was born on 25th June 1929 in Syracuse, New York in a German inmigrant family. Hid proud work The very Hungry Caterpillar published in 1969, has earned him much love from millions of children all over the world. After his great success in 1969 Eric Carle has published more than secenty books many of wich are best sellers also written by him.
In mid 1929 his family moved back to Germany when he was six years old. He had his early education in Stuttgart and graduated from the Akademie der Bildenden Künstue Stuttgart. During World War II, when Eric was 15, he was enrolled by the German Government to dig trenches on the Siegfried line; a memory Eric never really liked to recall. During his time in Germany, Eric recalls, he was always homestick and dreamt of his return one day to the land of his happiest childhood memories, America. In 1952 he did finally returned to New York was with promotion department of The New York Times as a graphic designer. He was the enrolled in U.S Army during Korean Was as mail clerk. Upon his return from war he joined and advertising agency as art director.
HIs first break through wich truly began his career struck when Bill Martin Jr. a renowned author and educator asked him to illuustrate a story after noticing an illustration of a red lobster Carle created for an advertisement.
In 2002, withh the assistance of his wife Barbara Carle, he founded The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art dedicated to children's book art. Thhe muuseum is located adjacent to the campus of HHampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts.It is regarded as the fiirst full scale museum devoted to national and international picture book art in the United States.
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Julia Donaldson
Biography: She born in 1948, in North London with her younger sister, parents and extended family all sharing the family home. Her first interests were firmly rooted in music, her father being a Cello player and her mother a keen singer; herself and her sister were also members of the Children's Opera Group.
Attending Bristol University to study French and Drama, Donaldson met Malcom, her future husband and together theys busked ther way around Europe, making up songs in the language of the country they were visiting, before marrying and settling in Glasgow.
A writer of songs for children's BBC television, her first publication 'A Squash and a Squeeze' in 1993 was as a direct result of her song writing abilities with this indeed originally beginning life as one of Donaldson's musical compositions. This first book was illustrated by Axel Scheffler and was set to be the beginning of a long and fruitful working relationship and friendship.
Her second book published, in 1999, was none other than The Gruffalo.
Writing for both schools and the general public Julia Donaldson has had in excess of 140 books published to date with many more planned for release in the future. In addition to her rhyming and story books Donaldson has also written plays, for both smaill groups and class sized groups and musicals to be performed by adults for children.
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