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Jane Wattenberg
Jane Wattenberg (born 1949) is an United States, American author, photographer, and illustrator of books for children. Mrs. Mustard is her pen name. Artistic career Jane Wattenberg is the author and photo collage creator of the best-selling accordion-style baby board books, ''Mrs. Mustard's Baby Faces'' and ''Mrs. Mustard's Beastly Babies'' (Chronicle Books). She is also the author and photo illustrator of the award-winning re-told tale, ''Henny-Penny'' (Scholastic Press) and the retelling of the classic Aesop's Fables, Aesop fable ''The Boy Who Cried Wolf'', which she wove into ''Never Cry Woof!'' (Scholastic Press), wherein dogs guard the sheep instead of a boy. Her most recent photo-illustrated book is ''The Duck and the Kangaroo'', written by Edward Lear (1812–1888). It is the first stand-alone version of this endearing poem, which Lear wrote in the same time period as ''The Owl and the Pussycat''. Wattenberg is influenced by photo collage artist Hannah Höch, painter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Connecticut
Connecticut () is the southernmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, New York to the west, and Long Island Sound to the south. Its capital is Hartford and its most populous city is Bridgeport. Historically the state is part of New England as well as the tri-state area with New York and New Jersey. The state is named for the Connecticut River which approximately bisects the state. The word "Connecticut" is derived from various anglicized spellings of "Quinnetuket”, a Mohegan-Pequot word for "long tidal river". Connecticut's first European settlers were Dutchmen who established a small, short-lived settlement called House of Hope in Hartford at the confluence of the Park and Connecticut Rivers. Half of Connecticut was initially claimed by the Dutch colony New Netherland, which included much of the land between the Connecticut and Delaware Rivers, although the firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
