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The Funny Little Woman
''The Funny Little Woman'' is a book "retold by" Arlene Mosel. Released by E. P. Dutton, it was the recipient of the Caldecott Medal for illustration in 1973, and was illustrated by Blair Lent.American Library AssociationCaldecott Medal Winners, 1938 - Present URL accessed 12 January 2013. "The Old Woman who Lost her Dumplings" was the title of the original tale by Lafcadio Hearn, * The title on the 2nd page is "The old woman who lost her dumplings". Appendix.Whole list of other titles and authors in the ''Japanese fairy tale'' series. * Lacy1986 cites the following book, but it contains typos "Fizō" which is a mis-copy of "Jizō": ** which Mosel had adapted. Plot The story is set in old Japan. It is about is a funny little woman (who is an old woman). She likes to laugh ("Tee-he-he-he") and makes dumplings out of rice. One day, one of her dumplings rolls down a hole. The little old woman chases the lost dumpling and ends up in a strange place underground, lined with '' Jiz ...
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Arlene Mosel
Arlene Tichy Mosel (August 27, 1921 – May 1996) was an American children's librarian who wrote the text for two award-winning children's picture books illustrated by Blair Lent ''Tikki Tikki Tembo'' won the annual Boston Globe–Horn Book Award and Lent won the annual Caldecott Medal for ''The Funny Little Woman''. Biography She was born as Arlene Tichy on August 27, 1921, in Cleveland, Ohio to Edward J. Tichy, an engraver and Marie Fingulin Tichy. She attended Ohio Wesleyan University, where she was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1942, and later attended Western Reserve University (now Case Western Reserve University) where she graduated with a Master of Library and Information Science, Master of Science in Library Science degree in 1959. She married sales engineer Victor H. Mosel on December 26, 1942, with whom she had three children; Nancy Mosel Farrar, Joanne and James.Arlene (Tichy) Mosel, ''Contemporary Authors Online'', Gale (Cengage), entry updated December 7, 2000 ...
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One Fine Day (book)
''One Fine Day'' is a children's picture book by Nonny Hogrogian. Released by Macmillan, it was the recipient of the Caldecott Medal for illustration An illustration is a decoration, interpretation or visual explanation of a text, concept or process, designed for integration in print and digital published media, such as posters, flyers, magazines, books, teaching materials, animations, vid ... in 1972.American Library AssociationCaldecott Medal Winners, 1938 - Present URL accessed 27 May 2009. The story is a retelling of an Armenian folktale. Synopsis A woman catches a fox drinking her glass of milk and cuts off his tail. The fox begs her for his tail back, and she agrees to return it if the fox replaces the milk he stole. The fox approaches a series of other animals and people, each of whom wants something in return for their help. After fulfilling everybody's needs, the woman sews the fox's tailback onto him. References 1971 children's books American picture ...
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Picture Books By Arlene Mosel
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American Picture Books
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Children's Fiction Books
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Caldecott Medal–winning Works
Caldecott may refer to: Awards * The Caldecott Medal, an award for children's book illustration named after Randolph Caldecott People * Caldecott (surname) Places * Caldecott, Cheshire, England * Caldecott, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom * Caldecott, Oxfordshire, a district of Abingdon, England * Caldecott, Rutland, United Kingdom * Caldecott Tunnel, California, United States * Caldecott Hill, Singapore, home of the headquarters of MediaCorp * Caldecott MRT station, a Circle Line MRT station in Singapore * Caldecott Road, Hong Kong, a road named after Andrew Caldecott See also

* Caldecote (other) * Caldecotte, a district in the parish of Walton, Milton Keynes, in ceremonial Buckinghamshire, England * Caldicot (other) {{disambiguation, geo ...
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1972 Children's Books
Year 197 ( CXCVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Magius and Rufinus (or, less frequently, year 950 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 197 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * February 19 – Battle of Lugdunum: Emperor Septimius Severus defeats the self-proclaimed emperor Clodius Albinus at Lugdunum (modern Lyon). Albinus commits suicide; legionaries sack the town. * Septimius Severus returns to Rome and has about 30 of Albinus's supporters in the Senate executed. After his victory he declares himself the adopted son of the late Marcus Aurelius. * Septimius Severus forms new naval units, manning all the triremes in Italy with heavily armed troops for war in the East. His soldiers embark on an ...
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1973 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1973. Events *March 6 – The Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts, founded as the Montenegrin Society for Science and Arts (''Crnogorsko društvo za nauku i umjetnost'') in Podgorica, elects its first members. * May 14 **New orthography for the Greenlandic language is introduced. **François Truffaut's film '' Day for Night (La Nuit américaine)'' premieres; novelist Grahame Greene (credited as Henry Graham) has a cameo role as an English insurance company representative. *June 21 **The Supreme Court of the United States delivers its decision in the landmark case '' Miller v. California'', establishing the " Miller test" for determining obscenity. **Virago Press, registered on June 18 in the U.K. by Carmen Callil mainly to publish classics by women writers, holds its first board meeting; its first book will be published in 1975. * July 26 – Peter Shaffer's drama '' Equus'' is premièred i ...
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Duffy And The Devil
''Duffy and the Devil'' (1973) is a book by Margot Zemach and her husband Harvey Fichstrom (as Harve Zemach). In 1974 it was a finalist for the National Book Award, Children's Literature"National Book Awards – 1974"
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Blair Lent
Blair Lent (January 22, 1930 – January 27, 2009), who sometimes wrote as Ernest Small, was an American illustrator and writer of children's books, perhaps best known for those with Chinese themes such as ''Tikki Tikki Tembo'' (1968). He won the 1973 Caldecott Medal for U.S. picture book illustration, recognizing ''The Funny Little Woman'' by Arlene Mosel. Lent used a wide range of techniques in his illustrations, including acrylic painting, cardboard cutouts, colored pencil and ink and wash. Born in Boston, Lent attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston Museum School where he graduated with a degree in art in 1953, after which he went to Italy and Switzerland on a study grant. He worked for the Container Corporation of America designing labels for cans and worked for the Bresnick Advertising Company where he designed bank advertisements. After receiving positive feedback from a juvenile-books editor at Atlantic Monthly Press, he put out ''Pistachio'', a stor ...
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Rice
Rice is the seed of the grass species ''Oryza sativa'' (Asian rice) or less commonly ''Oryza glaberrima ''Oryza glaberrima'', commonly known as African rice, is one of the two domesticated rice species. It was first domesticated and grown in West Africa around 3,000 years ago. In agriculture, it has largely been replaced by higher-yielding Asian r ...'' (African rice). The name wild rice is usually used for species of the genera ''Zizania (genus), Zizania'' and ''Porteresia'', both wild and domesticated, although the term may also be used for primitive or uncultivated varieties of ''Oryza''. As a cereal, cereal grain, domesticated rice is the most widely consumed staple food for over half of the world's World population, human population,Abstract, "Rice feeds more than half the world's population." especially in Asia and Africa. It is the agricultural commodity with the third-highest worldwide production, after sugarcane and maize. Since sizable portions of sugarcane and ma ...
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