Conhecimento Comum

Data de nascimento: 20th century
Sexo: female
Educação: Syracuse University
Ocupações: professor of art
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425: Laurel Long is a graduate of Syracuse University with a master’s degree in fine arts. She has illustrated many children’s books, including The Mightiest Heart by Lynn Cullen, which was awarded the Society of Illustrators Gold Medal, and The Magic Nesting Doll by Jacqueline K. Ogburn, an ABA Kids’ Pick of the Lists. She is currently a professor of art at California State University, Northridge, and lives in Southern California with her family.

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The Lady and the Lion por Jacqueline K. Ogburn

Laurel Long's illustrations are gorgeous! And since "The Lady and the Lion" is a variation of "Beauty and the Beast" and/or "East of the Sun, West of the Moon" that I've never encountered before, I can forgive the somewhat bland storytelling.

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slimikin | 12 outras críticas | Mar 27, 2022 |

The Magic Nesting Doll por Jacqueline K Ogburn

Happily Ever After! I enjoyed this almost gender-bent idea of the story of sleeping beauty. Absolutely GORGEOUSLY illustrated. Each picture could be taken out of the book and framed for how beautiful this book is. Excellent.

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HeidiSV | 6 outras críticas | Mar 11, 2022 |

The Lady and the Lion: A Brothers Grimm Tale por Jacqueline K. Ogburn

I was expecting a retelling of the Beauty and the Beast story, but instead I got East of the Sun and West of the Moon which is even better! Of course, there's very little original material in the telling of the story (why mess with a classic), but what makes this book a great read is the stunning artwork. Long is clearly a master of oil painting, as each illustration is lush with colour, highly detailed, and perfectly composed. The background details are slightly more stylized than I'm used to seeing in classical oil painting (which often tends to a blurred softness), but this fits the storybook format quite well and leads the reader to focus on the more ornate foreground and subjects. My only complaint (and it's more of an observation than true criticism) is that Long mixes so many distinct stylizations (I got some Japanese, Chinese, Middle Eastern, Western, and Indian influences) that it might be a bit overdone for some tastes.… (mais)

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JaimieRiella | 12 outras críticas | Feb 25, 2021 |

The Lady and the Lion: A Brothers Grimm Tale por Jacqueline K. Ogburn

This book is beautiful. The amazing illustrations remind me of Da Vinci painting. And the story while at part is a Beauty and the Beast retelling, it is also something entirely new, with new edge. I loved everything about it. It may be a little long for story time, but it would be great for bedtime or rainy day reading.
#Wintergames #teamreadnosereindeer +16

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LibrarianRyan | 12 outras críticas | Dec 15, 2020 |

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