Jack Kent (1920–1985)
Autor(a) de There's No Such Thing as a Dragon
About the Author
Jack Kent was born in 1920 in Burlington, Iowa. He left high school at the age of 15 and began a career as a freelance commercial artist. His first nationally recognized work was King Aroo whcih was syndicated and distributed from 1950-1965. The early comic strips were collected in a 192 page book, mostrar mais King Aroo, published in 1953. Jack Kent wrote and drew the 1968 syndicated Christmas cominstrip, Why Christmas Almost Wasn't. Jack Kent and his wife named their home on the banks of the San Antonio River King Aroo's Castle. He began writing and illustrating children's books in 1968. Jack Kent's book, Just Only John, received awards from the Chicago Graphics Associates and the Children's Book Clinic. The New York Times named his book Mr. Meebles outstanding picture book of the year for 1970. Some of Jack Kent's more famous works are Silly Goose, The Biggest Shadow in the Zoo and The Caterpillar and The Polliwog. He continued to write and illustrate children's books until his death in 1985 from leukemia. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Image credit: Estate of Jack Kent
Séries
Obras por Jack Kent
Piggy Bank Gonsales 1 exemplar
Sextet 1 exemplar
Drachen gibt es doch gar nichts 1 exemplar
The Caterpillar an the polliwod 1 exemplar
D'rakon -- Ein Davar Kazeh 1 exemplar
Blister Book 1 exemplar
Joey Runs Away, Titch, Wilford Gordon McDonald Partridge, Not So Fast Songololo, and more (2006) 1 exemplar
Wie, wat waar, wat doe je daar? 1 exemplar
THE FAST CAT 1 exemplar
Associated Works
The Brave Little Tailor (An Easy-to-read Folktale) (1977) — Ilustrador, algumas edições — 182 exemplares
How to make Possum's honey bread, Skunk's chocolate sprinkle bread, and Racoon's raisin bread, too (1975) — Ilustrador — 11 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Kent, Jack
- Outros nomes
- Kent, John Wellington
- Data de nascimento
- 1920-03-10
- Data de falecimento
- 1985-10-18
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Burlington, Iowa, USA
- Locais de residência
- San Antonio, Texas, USA
- Ocupações
- author
children's book illustrator
cartoonist - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Chicago Graphics Award
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- King Aroo daily comic strips (1950-1965) and numerous Children's books that he illustrated and/or wrote (1968-1985).
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 59
- Also by
- 20
- Membros
- 4,231
- Popularidade
- #5,939
- Avaliação
- 4.2
- Críticas
- 76
- ISBN
- 184
- Línguas
- 4
- Marcado como favorito
- 7