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I Can Read!
I Can Read! is a line of beginning reading books published by HarperCollins. The series is rated by level and is widely used to teach children to read English. The first book in the series was Else Holmelund Minarik's '' Little Bear'', published in 1957, and subsequent notable titles have included '' Amelia Bedelia'' and ''Frog and Toad''. Structure The I Can Read! series divides its output into 6 levels *My Very First - For teaching children vowels *My First - For reading aloud to children. *Level 1 - For children who have begun to read sounds and sentences aloud. *Level 2 - For children who can read confidently, but still benefit from help. *Level 3 - Enjoyable titles for children to read unassisted. *Level 4 - Advanced titles to further develop the readers' literacy. History The I Can Read! series began with 1957's '' Little Bear'', by Else Holmelund Minarik and illustrated by Maurice Sendak. In late 2020, HarperCollins announced the addition of a new series called "I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basal Reader
Basal readers are textbooks used to teach reading and associated skills to schoolchildren. Commonly called "reading books" or "readers" they are usually published as anthologies that combine previously published short stories, excerpts of longer narratives, and original works. A standard basal series comes with individual identical books for students, a ''Teacher's Edition'' of the book, and a collection of workbooks, assessments, and activities. Description Basal readers are typically organized. Stories are chosen to illustrate and develop specific skills, which are taught in a pre-determined sequence. The teacher's editions are also tightly organized, containing much more than the answer key to the questions that usually appear at the end of each reading passage. The teacher's book also contains suggestions for pre-reading and post-reading activities and assessments, as well as scripted questions to ask students at specific points in a story. History Basal readers have bee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Stolz
Mary Stolz (born Mary Slattery, March 24, 1920 – December 15, 2006) was an American writer of fiction for children and young adults. She received the 1953 Child Study Association of America's Children's Book Award for ''In a Mirror,'' Newbery Honors in 1962 for ''Belling the Tiger'' and 1966 for ''The Noonday Friends'', and her entire body of work was awarded the George G. Stone Recognition of Merit in 1982. Her literary works range from picture books to young-adult novels. Although most of Stolz's works are fiction books, she made a few contributions to magazines such as ''Cosmopolitan, Ladies' Home Journal'', and '' Seventeen''. Biography Early life Mary Slattery was born on March 24, 1920 in Boston, Massachusetts. Raised in Manhattan, she attended the Birch Wathen School and served as assistant editor of her school magazine, ''Birch Leaves''. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lillian Hoban
Lillian Hoban (May 18, 1925 – July 17, 1998) was an American illustrator and children's writer best known for picture books created with her husband Russell Hoban. According to OCLC, she has published 326 works in 1,401 publications in 11 languages. Biography Lillian Hoban born in Philadelphia and was the youngest of three sisters. She attended the Philadelphia High School for Girls. She was always interested in art and wanted to become an artist. At age 14, she started classes at the Graphic Sketch Club where she met her husband and collaborator Russell Hoban.Biographical Manuscript, Beinecke Library Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University. She won a scholarship to the Philadelphia Museum School of Art, where she majored in Illustration. After getting married and settling in New York City, Hoban gave up art to study dance at the Hanya Holm School. She studied dance for ten years. She danced professionally and did choreography on a musical show called ''Tropical Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russell Hoban
Russell Conwell Hoban (February 4, 1925 – December 13, 2011) was an American expatriate writer. His works span many genres, including fantasy, science fiction, mainstream fiction, magical realism, poetry, and children's books. He lived in London from 1969 until his death. Biography Hoban was born in Lansdale, Pennsylvania, just outside Philadelphia, to Jewish immigrants from Ostrog (now in Ukraine). His father, Abram T. Hoban, was the advertising manager of the Yiddish-language ''Jewish Daily Forward'' and the director of The Drama Guild of the Labor Institute of the Workmen's Circle of Philadelphia. His father died when Russell was 11, and Russell was thereafter raised by his mother, Jeanette Dimmerman. He was named for Russell Conwell. After briefly attending Temple University, he enlisted in the Army at age 18 and served in the Philippines and Italy as a radio operator during World War II, earning a bronze star. During his military service he married Lillian Aberma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathaniel Benchley
Nathaniel Goddard Benchley (November 13, 1915 – December 14, 1981) was an American writer from Massachusetts. Early life Born in Newton, Massachusetts to a literary family, he was the son of Robert Benchley (1889–1945), a noted American writer, humorist, critic, and actor and one founder of the Algonquin Round Table in New York City, and Gertrude Darling. He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard College. Benchley enlisted in the U.S. Navy prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor. He served as a public relations officer, and on destroyers and patrol craft in North Atlantic convoy duty (Battle of the Atlantic), and was transferred to the Pacific Theater in 1945. Writing career After the war Benchley worked for the weekly magazine ''Newsweek'' as an assistant drama editor. Harcourt, Brace published Benchley's first book in 1950, ''Side Street'', a novel featuring "hilarious activities of two New York City families living in the East Sixties"—that is, living on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosemary Wells
Rosemary Wells (born January 29, 1943) is an American writer and illustrator of children's books. She is well known for using animal characters to address real human issues. Some of her most well-known characters are Max & Ruby (later adapted into a Canadian-animated preschool television series, which aired on Nickelodeon (part of Nick Jr. block) since 2002), Noisy Nora, and Yoko. Background Wells was born in New York City and raised in Red Bank, New Jersey. Her mother was a ballerina with the Ballet Ruse de Monte Carlo and her father was a playwright. She began drawing at age two. When Wells was nineteen, she attended the Boston Museum School where she studied illustration. Before becoming an author and illustrator, Wells worked as an art editor for Allyn and Bacon, Inc and as an art designer for Macmillan Publishing. In 1963, she married architect Thomas Moore Wells, with whom she has two daughters, and in 1968, she published her first book, an illustrated version of Gilbert and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aliki Brandenberg
Aliki Liacouras Brandenberg or pen name Aliki (born September 3, 1929) is an American author and illustrator of books for children. Early life Brandenberg was born in Wildwood Crest, New Jersey, to James Peter and Stella (née Lagakos) Liacouras. Her parents, who lived in Philadelphia, were originally from Greece, and they taught her to speak Greek as a first language. She started to draw at an early age, and her parents enrolled her in art classes. She also took piano lessons. Career After graduating from the Philadelphia Museum School of Art in 1951, Brandenberg worked briefly at the J. C. Penney Company in New York, in that company's display department. She then moved back to Philadelphia and worked as a freelance artist, creating art for advertising and display purposes. She also taught classes in art, worked as a muralist, and started a greeting card company. In 1956 Brandenberg decided to explore her Greek heritage, as well as many other parts of Europe. During her trave ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crosby Bonsall
Crosby Newell Bonsall (January 2, 1921 – January 10, 1995) was an American artist and children's book author and illustrator. She wrote and illustrated more than 40 children's books. Born January 2, 1921, in Kew Gardens, Queens, New York, Bonsall studied at New York University School of Architecture and the American School of Design. She had a passion for designing even as a young child. Her children's literature career started as a doodle of an orange-haired, freckle-faced rag doll on her drawing board at the advertising agency she was working for at the time.Karen Ritz, Children's Literature Network A doll manufacturer bought the rights to that doll caricature, from which Bonsall later created a family of dolls that became characters in her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crockett Johnson
Crockett Johnson (October 20, 1906 – July 11, 1975) was the pen name of the American cartoonist and children's book illustrator David Johnson Leisk. He is best known for the comic strip '' Barnaby'' (1942–1952) and the ''Harold'' series of books, beginning with '' Harold and the Purple Crayon''. From 1965 until his death Johnson created over a hundred paintings relating to mathematics and mathematical physics. Eighty of these are found in the collections of the National Museum of American History. Biography Born in New York City, Johnson grew up in Corona, Queens, New York, attended PS 16 and Newtown High School. He studied art at Cooper Union in 1924, and at New York University in 1925."Harold, Barnaby, and Dave: A Biography of Crockett Johnson" Philip Nel. He expl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritz Siebel
Frederick "Fritz" Siebel (December 19, 1913 – December 1991) was an Austrian American illustrator, well known for his award winning World War II poster "Someone Talked" and his illustrations for the children's book Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish. Life Early years Siebel was born in Vienna to Czechoslovakian parents. During his childhood he and his siblings spent summers at the family hops farm in Czechoslovakia. He studied Illustration and stage design at the Kunstgewerbeschule Vienna (now the University of Applied Arts Vienna), after which, because of his dual citizenship, he was drafted to the Czech army where he served from 1934 to 1936. Immigration to the USA In 1936 Siebel immigrated to the United States and was joined by his family in 1937, and they settled in New York City. The other relatives who remained in Europe perished in the Holocaust. Death Frederick Siebel died New York City in December 1991. Work as a Graphic Artist Early USA Years In NYC, after his immig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syd Hoff
Syd Hoff (September 4, 1912 – May 12, 2004) was an American cartoonist and children's book author, best known for his classic early reader '' Danny and the Dinosaur''. His cartoons appeared in a multitude of genres, including advertising commissions for such companies as Eveready Batteries, Jell-O, OK Used Cars, S.O.S Pads, Rambler, Ralston Cereal, and more. Biography Hoff was born in Bronx, New York. While he was still at high school, Milt Gross, a popular 1930s cartoonist, told him at an assembly, "Kid, someday you'll be a great cartoonist!"Syd Hoff:Autobiography Official Syd Hoff Website, retrieved May 10, 2021 At 16, he enrolled at the in New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esther Averill
Esther Averill (July 24, 1902 – May 19, 1992) was an American writer and illustrator best known for the Cat Club picture books, a collection of 13 stories featuring Jenny Linsky, a small black cat who always wears a red scarf. She was also an editor and publisher. Life Averill was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut on July 24, 1902, daughter of Charles Ketchum and Helen (Holden) Averill, where she was a teenage cartoonist for a local newspaper. After graduating from Vassar College with honors in 1923, she joined the editorial staff of ''Women's Wear Daily''. In 1925 she moved to Paris, France to work as a photojournalist's assistant. In 1931, Averill founded the Domino Press, which specialized in "children's picture books illustrated by gifted young artists and reproduced by means of the excellent color processes that were available". Domino's first publication was a book entitled ''Daniel Boone : les adventures d'un chasseur americain parmi les peaux-rogues'', illustrated by Feodo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
