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Author Nel, Philip, 1969-

Title Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss : how an unlikely couple found love, dodged the FBI, and transformed children's literature / Philip Nel.

Publication Info. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2012]
©2012

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Location Call No. Status
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  GROUP BIOGRAPHY JOHNSON, CROCKETT & KRAUSS, RUTH    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  813.52 NE    Check Shelf
Description 367 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Series Children's literature association series
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-340) and index.
Contents Ruth Krauss's charmed childhood -- Becoming Crockett Johnson -- Portrait of the artist as a young woman -- Punching the clock and turning left -- First draft -- Crockett and the red crayon -- "We met, and that was it!" -- Barnaby -- A good man and his good wife -- The Athens of South Norwalk -- Art and politics -- At home with Ruth and Dave -- The big world and the little house -- Artists are to watch -- The art of collaboration -- Harold -- Striking out into new areas of experimentation -- New adventures of Page and Screen -- "Hitting on all 24 cylinders" -- Poet in the news, cartoonist on TV -- Lorca variations and Harold's ABC -- Provocateur and philosopher -- Painting, passports, and protest -- Theorems in color, poems on stage -- "You're only as old as other people think you are" -- What would Harold do? -- Life after Dave -- Children are to love.
Summary Crockett Johnson (born David Johnson Leisk, 1906-1975) and Ruth Krauss (1901-1993) were a husband-and-wife team that created such popular children's books as The Carrot Seed and How to Make an Earthquake. Separately, Johnson created the enduring children's classic Harold and the Purple Crayon and the groundbreaking comic strip Barnaby. Krauss wrote over a dozen children's books illustrated by others and pioneered the use of spontaneous, loose-tongued kids in children's literature. Johnson and Krauss's whimsical, clear, and childlike style is among the most revered and influential in children's literature and cartooning, inspiring the work of Maurice Sendak, Charles M. Schulz, Chris Van Allsburg, and Jon Scieszka. This critical biography examines their lives and careers. Using correspondence, sketches, contemporary newspaper and magazine accounts, and archived and personal interviews, author Philip Nel draws a compelling portrait of a couple whose output encompassed children's literature, comics, graphic design, and the fine arts.
Subject Johnson, Crockett, 1906-1975.
Krauss, Ruth.
Johnson, Crockett, 1906-1975. (OCoLC)fst01435089
Krauss, Ruth. (OCoLC)fst00015180
Children's literature, American -- History and criticism.
Children's literature, American. (OCoLC)fst00855882
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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