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Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss: How an Unlikely Couple Found Love, Dodged the Fbi, and Transformed Children's Literature

Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss: How an Unlikely Couple Found Love, Dodged the Fbi, and Transformed Children's Literature - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Philip NelSeries:Children's Literature AssociationPublish date:2012-07-30Pages:368
Language:EnglishPublisher:University Press of MississippiISBN-13:9781617036361ISBN-10:1617036366UPC:9781617036361Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, Comics & Graphic Novels, Popular CultureSize:8.40 x 5.83 x 0.97 inchesWeight:1.2919Product ID:SCKRDK3V6S

Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss: How an Unlikely Couple Found Love, Dodged the Fbi, and Transformed Children's Literature

Winner of the Children's Literature Association's 2014 Honor Book Award

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...
Series: Children's Literature Association
Language:EnglishPublisher:University Press of MississippiISBN-13:9781617036361ISBN-10:1617036366UPC:9781617036361Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, Comics & Graphic Novels, Popular CultureSize:8.40 x 5.83 x 0.97 inchesWeight:1.2919Product ID:SCKRDK3V6S
Philip Nel is assistant professor of English at Kansas State University. He is author of J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter Novels: A Reader's Guide. He has been published in Children's Literature, Modern Fiction Studies, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, and Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature.
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi

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