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Evelyn Sibley Lampman
Evelyn Sibley Lampman (April 18, 1907 - June 13, 1980) was an American writer of children's and young adult fiction. Some of her work was published under the pseudonyms Jane Woodfin and Lynn Bronson. Family Evelyn Maude Sibley was born in Dallas, Oregon, to Joseph Elmer Sibley and Harriet Bronson. Harriet was the great-great granddaughter of Nancy Ann Woodfin, from whose surname one of Evelyn's pseudonyms (Jane Woodfin) was derived. Evelyn's father, Joe Sibley, was an attorney and judge in Dallas. In 1935, Evelyn was married to Herbert Sheldon Lampman, son of Oregon Poet Laureate Ben Hur Lampman. Herbert wrote for The Oregonian as wildlife editor. They had two children, Linda Sibley Lampman (1936) and Anne Hathaway Lampman (1940) before Herb died in 1943. Early adult life and radio career After her graduation from Dallas High School in 1925, Evelyn Sibley attended Oregon Agricultural College (now Oregon State University), graduating in 1929 with a degree in Vocational Edu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dallas, Oregon
Dallas is a city and the county seat of Polk County, Oregon, United States. The population was 16,854 at the 2020 census. Dallas is along Rickreall Creek, about west of Salem, at an elevation of above sea level. It is part of the Salem Metropolitan Statistical Area. History Pioneers in the 1840s started the settlement that became known as Dallas on the north side of Rickreall Creek. It was originally named "Cynthian" or "Cynthiana". A 1947 ''Itemizer-Observer'' article states: " e town was called Cynthiana after Cynthiana, Ky., so named by Mrs. Thos. Lovelady." According to the county historical society in 1987, Mrs. Thomas J. Lovelady named the new settlement after her home town of Cynthiana, Kentucky. Another source claims that Cynthia Ann, wife of early pioneer Jesse Applegate, named the settlement. But they lived in the Salt Creek area of northern Polk County and, according to the 1850 Federal Census, she was not living in Polk County then. Dallas post office was estab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award
The Vermont Golden Dome Book Award (formerly the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award) annually recognizes one new American children's book selected by the vote of Vermont schoolchildren. It was inaugurated in 1957. The award is co-sponsored by the Vermont State PTA and the Vermont Department of Libraries and was originally named after the Vermont writer Dorothy Canfield Fisher. In 2020, it was temporarily renamed the "VT Middle-Grade Book Award" before schoolchildren voted to officially call it the "Vermont Golden Dome Book Award". Selection process and award Each spring a committee of eight adults selects a "Master List" of thirty books first published during the previous calendar year. The list is announced at the annual Dorothy Canfield Fisher Conference, usually in May, and is available at Vermont school and public libraries for children who wish to participate over the next eleven months. The following spring, those children who have read at least five of the thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CBS Storybreak
''CBS Storybreak'' is a Saturday morning anthology television series that originally aired on the CBS network from 1985 to 1989. Hosted by Bob Keeshan (and in its 1993 return by Malcolm-Jamal Warner), the episodes are half-hour animated adaptations of children's books published at the time of airing, including '' How to Eat Fried Worms''. Other episodes included '' Dragon's Blood'' and ''Ratha's Creature''. The show grew out of a feature on Keeshan's ''Captain Kangaroo'' series. Unique for an American television series, the series featured open captions captioned by the National Captioning Institute for the hearing impaired during its 1993 reairing, instead of the usual closed captioning. In addition to being a convenience for the hearing-impaired, this also allowed those who could hear to read along with the story. The episodes were produced by Australia's Southern Star/Hanna-Barbera Australia for CBS Entertainment Productions. One of its crew members, Sander Schwartzbecame the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyndy Szekeres
Cyndy Szekeres (born October 31, 1933) is an American children's book author and illustrator who has produced more than 130 books in the tradition of Beatrix Potter and Garth Williams. Best known for her anthropomorphic animal illustrations, she won the 1969 AIGA Award for ''Moon Mouse''. Biography Szekeres was born on October 31, 1933, in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Her parents were Stephen Paul, a toolmaker, and Anna (Ceplousky) Szekeres. Her father was a first-generation immigrant from Hungary, while her mother was a second-generation Lithuanian American. Szekeres grew up in the countryside of Fairfield County, where she developed a love of nature and began drawing in pencil at a very young age. Growing up in the later years of the Great Depression, she got her start drawing on brown paper bags. She drew inspiration from the work of N. C. Wyeth and Arthur Rackham. Encouraged by her father, who had heard advertising was a remunerative career, Szekeres studied art at the Prat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglas Gorsline
Douglas W. Gorsline (1913–1985) was an American painter and writer. He started out as a painter of social realism, though his more mature style was influenced by cubism, surrealism, and photographers of movement such as Étienne-Jules Marey and Edweard Muybridge. He worked in many media, including lithography, painting, and etching. He was an illustrator as well as a painter, and wrote and illustrated several children's books, an illustrated history of costume, as well as an edition of Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel, and his own novel, Farm Boy. at Sullivan Goss, Ltd. Life Douglas Gorsline who was born in . He attended the Rochester School of Technolo ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnold Spilka
Arnold Spilka (November 14, 1917 - December 14, 2002) was an American children's illustrator, writer and poet. Spilka was born in New York City and attended the Art Students League where he studied drawing with Rico Lebrun Rico (Federico) Lebrun (Naples, December 10, 1900 – Malibu, May 9, 1964) was an Italian-American painter and sculptor. Early life Lebrun was born in 1900 in Naples, Italy. He initially studied banking and journalism before taking art classes a ..., and sculpture with John Hovannes."About the Illustrator". Lawson, John. ''You Better Come Home With Me''. Harper-Collins (1990) He illustrated many books for other writers, including Robert Froman, John Lawson, Beman Lord, and Ann McGovern. He was the writer and illustrator of ''A Rumbudgin of Nonsense'' (1970) a picture book of nonsense verse () as well as ''A Lion I Can Do Without'' (1964), ''And the Frog Went Blah'' (1972), and ''Bumples, Fumdidlers, and Jellybeans'' (1996). Among his poems are ''Don't ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Krigstein
Bernard Krigstein (; March 22, 1919 – January 8, 1990), was an American illustrator and gallery artist who received acclaim for his innovative and influential approach to comic book art, notably in EC Comics. His artwork usually displayed the signature B. Krigstein. His best-known work in comic books is the eight-page story "Master Race", originally published in the debut issue (cover-dated April 1955) of EC Comics' ''Impact''. Biography Born in Brooklyn, New York City to a Jewish household, Krigstein studied art at Brooklyn College. Krigstein's earliest confirmed work in comics is penciling and inking the 10-page, patriotic "kid gang" feature "The Liberty Lads" in Harvey Comics' ''Champ Comics'' #25 (cover-dated April 1943). He went on to draw for Harvey and for Prize Comics through 1943, during the period fans and historians call the Golden Age of Comic Books. Following his service in World War II, he returned to comic books in 1945, working for publishers including Fawcett Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Galdone
Paul Galdone (June 2, 1907 – November 7, 1986) was an illustrator and writer known best for children's picture books. Early life He was born in Budapest and he emigrated to the United States in 1921. He studied art at the Art Student's League and New York School for Industrial Design. He served in the US Army during World War II. Career and honors He illustrated nearly all of Eve Titus' books, including ''Basil of Baker Street'' series which was translated to the screen in the animated Disney film, ''The Great Mouse Detective''. Galdone and Titus were nominated for Caldecott Medals for '' Anatole'' (1957) and ''Anatole and the Cat'' (1958). The titles were later named Caldecott Honor books in 1971. He was posthumously awarded the 1996 Kerlan Award for his contribution to children's literature. His retellings of classic tales like '' The Little Red Hen'' or ''Three Billy Goats Gruff'' have become staples. Death On November 7, 1986 at aged 79, he died of a heart attack i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grace Paull
Grace A. Paull (1898–1990) was an American artist, illustrator, and author. She designed greeting cards, illustrated children's books, and painted people, landscapes and flowers. Life and career Paull was born in 1898 in Cold Brook, New York. She went to high school in Montreal, Canada and then Utica Free Academy where she studied under Mabel E. Northrup. She continued her art studies at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn for three years and after graduating from there at Art Students League and Grand Central Art School in New York City. After art school, Paull designed greeting cards for several years. In 1932, Paull started her career of being a children's book illustrator. She was also the author of some of the books she illustrated. Paull made her home in Cold Brook, where she lived in the historic Cold Brook Feed Mill. Paull died in 1990. Collections Her work is included in the collections of the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute and the National Gallery of Art. Illus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oregon Library Association
The Oregon Library Association (OLA) is a professional association based in the U.S. state of Oregon that promotes the advancement of library service through public and professional education and cooperation. See also *Oregon State Library *American Library Association External links Oregon Library AssociationPacific Northwest Library Association Libraries in Oregon Non-profit organizations based in Oregon oregon Oregon () is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. The Columbia River delineates much of Oregon's northern boundary with Washington, while the Snake River delineates much of its eastern boundary with Idaho. T ... 1940 establishments in Oregon {{Oregon-org-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cayuse People
The Cayuse are a Native American tribe in what is now the state of Oregon in the United States. The Cayuse tribe shares a reservation and government in northeastern Oregon with the Umatilla and the Walla Walla tribes as part of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation. The reservation is located near Pendleton, Oregon, at the base of the Blue Mountains. The Cayuse called themselves the ''Liksiyu'' in the Cayuse language. Originally located in present-day northeastern Oregon and southeastern Washington, they lived adjacent to territory occupied by the Nez Perce and had close associations with them. Like the Plains tribes, the Cayuse placed a high premium on warfare and were skilled horsemen. They developed the Cayuse pony. The Cayuse ceded most of their traditional territory to the United States in 1855 by treaty and moved to the Umatilla Reservation, where they have formed a confederated tribe. History According to Haruo Aoki (1998), the Cayuse called ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whitman Massacre
The Whitman massacre (also known as the Walla Walla massacre and referred to as the Tragedy at Waiilatpu by the National Park Service) was the killing of the Washington missionaries Marcus Whitman and his wife Narcissa, along with eleven others, on November 29, 1847. They were killed by members of the Cayuse tribe who accused Whitman of having poisoned 200 Cayuse in his medical care. The incident began the Cayuse War. It took place in southeastern Washington near Walla Walla and was one of the most notorious episodes in the U.S. settlement of the Pacific Northwest. Whitman had helped lead the first wagon train to cross Oregon's Blue Mountains and reach the Columbia River via the Oregon Trail, and this incident was the climax of several years of complex interaction between him and the local Native Americans. The story of the massacre shocked the United States Congress into action concerning the future territorial status of the Oregon Country. The Oregon Territory was established ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
