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Jack Kent (1920–1985)

Autor(a) de There's No Such Thing as a Dragon

59+ Works 4,231 Membros 76 Críticas 7 Favorited

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
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Séries

Obras por Jack Kent

There's No Such Thing as a Dragon (1975) 958 exemplares
The Caterpillar and the Polliwog (1982) 654 exemplares
The Fat Cat: A Danish Folktale (1971) 338 exemplares
Socks for Supper (1978) 337 exemplares
The Biggest Shadow in the Zoo (1981) 159 exemplares
Round Robin (1982) 127 exemplares
Hop, Skip, and Jump Book (1974) 111 exemplares
Little Peep (1981) 109 exemplares
Mrs. Mooley (Family Storytime) (1973) 106 exemplares
Joey Runs Away (1985) 99 exemplares
Joey (1984) 96 exemplares
The Wizard of Wallaby Wallow (1971) 93 exemplares
Clotilda (1978) 93 exemplares
Just Only John (1768) 84 exemplares
Jack Kent's Fables of Aesop (1972) 73 exemplares
The Grown-up Day (1969) 72 exemplares
The blah (1832) 65 exemplares
Dooly and the Snortsnoot (1972) 52 exemplares
More Fables of Aesop (1718) 50 exemplares
Piggy Bank Gonzales (1978) 34 exemplares
Silly Goose (1982) 31 exemplares
King Aroo, Vol. 1: 1950-1952 (1953) 30 exemplares
The Christmas Pinata (1975) 25 exemplares
The Once-Upon-a-Time Dragon (1982) 23 exemplares
The Egg Book (1975) 19 exemplares
Mr. Elephant's Birthday Party (1969) 17 exemplares
Jack Kent's Merry Mother Goose (1977) 14 exemplares
Jim Jimmy James (1984) 13 exemplares
Mr. Meebles (1970) 11 exemplares
Jack Kent's Happy-Ever-After Book (1976) 10 exemplares
Floyd, the Tiniest Elephant (1653) 9 exemplares
King Aroo, Vol. 2: 1952-1954 (2013) 8 exemplares
Knee-High Nina (1980) 7 exemplares
Fly away home (1969) 4 exemplares
Funny Book (1977) 2 exemplares
The Scribble Monster (1981) 2 exemplares
Sextet 1 exemplar
Blister Book 1 exemplar
Le Petit Chaperon rouge (1991) 1 exemplar
Merry Mother Goose (1977) 1 exemplar
THE FAST CAT 1 exemplar

Associated Works

More Spaghetti, I Say! (1977) — Ilustrador, algumas edições2,572 exemplares
If You Grew Up with George Washington (1982) — Ilustrador, algumas edições1,338 exemplares
The Bremen-Town Musicians (Easy-to-Read Folktales) (1900) — Ilustrador — 996 exemplares
Q is for Duck: an Alphabet Guessing Game (1980) — Ilustrador — 532 exemplares
I Was Walking Down The Road (1975) — Ilustrador — 403 exemplares
Why Can't I Fly? (1976) — Ilustrador — 335 exemplares
The Emperor's New Clothes (1971) — Ilustrador — 215 exemplares
The Brave Little Tailor (An Easy-to-read Folktale) (1977) — Ilustrador, algumas edições182 exemplares
No One Noticed Ralph (Reading-on-My-Own Book) (1979) — Ilustrador — 105 exemplares
The Simple Prince (1978) — Ilustrador — 65 exemplares
Ice Cream Soup (1990) — Original story — 60 exemplares
Easy As Pie: A Guessing Game of Sayings (1985) — Ilustrador — 41 exemplares
Big Bear, Spare That Tree (1980) — Ilustrador — 40 exemplares
The Twiddle Twins' Haunted House (1996) — Ilustrador — 35 exemplares
The Girl Who Wouldn't Get Married (1983) — Ilustrador — 23 exemplares
The magic carrot seeds (1971) — Ilustrador — 21 exemplares
Janie and the Giant (1978) — Ilustrador — 21 exemplares
Laura's Story (1979) — Ilustrador — 8 exemplares
Ralph rides away (A Reading on my own book) (1979) — Ilustrador — 5 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

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King Aroo daily comic strips (1950-1965) and numerous Children's books that he illustrated and/or wrote (1968-1985).

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Críticas

 
Assinalado
BooksInMirror | Feb 19, 2024 |
Another of my favorite childhood books that I still have. This is super cute and shows kids that when adults don't believe them that they should keep insisting until they listen.
 
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LynnMPK | 18 outras críticas | Jul 3, 2023 |
Floyd the elephant is tiny -- as tiny as a mouse. Tired of never being noticed he runs away from the circus and meets a mouse. It turns out that the mice have a cat problem, and Floyd might have a solution for them. Simple story with a cute ending.
 
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MrsBond | Jun 27, 2023 |
Never knew about till Jordan Peterson. :)
 
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JMigotsky | 18 outras críticas | Jan 27, 2023 |

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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

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