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Ruth Krauss (1901–1993)

Autor(a) de The Carrot Seed

56+ Works 9,931 Membros 181 Críticas

About the Author

Ruth Krauss was born on July 25, 1901 in Baltimore, Maryland. She attended the Peabody Institute of Music. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Parsons School of Fine and Applied Art and studied anthropology at Columbia University. In 1941, she married David Johnson Leisk, who wrote and mostrar mais illustrated children's books as Crockett Johnson. They occasionally worked together. Her first book, A Good Man and His Good Wife, was published in 1944. She was credited as being one of the first authors to use minimal text, concentrating on precise language and working closely with an illustrator. She wrote more than 30 children's books during her lifetime including The Carrot Seed, I Can Fly, and A Hole Is to Dig: A First Book of First Definitions. She received the Caldecott Medal for The Happy Day in 1950 and A Very Special House in 1954. She also wrote verse plays and poetry for adults. She died on July 10, 1993 at the age of 91. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos

Obras por Ruth Krauss

The Carrot Seed (1945) 4,229 exemplares
The Happy Day (1949) 1,265 exemplares
A Hole is to Dig (1952) 883 exemplares
I Can Fly (1950) 521 exemplares
Bears (1948) 438 exemplares
The Carrot Seed (Board Book) (1892) 401 exemplares
A Very Special House (1953) 387 exemplares
I'll Be You and You Be Me (1954) 228 exemplares
The Growing Story (1947) — Autor — 222 exemplares
The Happy Egg (1967) 197 exemplares
Open House for Butterflies (1960) 195 exemplares
The Bundle Book (1951) 142 exemplares
Is This You? (1955) 129 exemplares
The Backward Day (1950) 101 exemplares
Goodnight Goodnight Sleepyhead (1964) 78 exemplares
I Want to Paint My Bathroom Blue (1956) 78 exemplares
Big and Little (1987) 62 exemplares
And I Love You (2010) 53 exemplares
Charlotte and The White Horse (1855) 52 exemplares
Roar Like a Dandelion (2019) 45 exemplares
Everything Under a Mushroom (1973) — Autor — 23 exemplares
The Birthday Party (1957) 20 exemplares
Big World and the Little House (1949) 17 exemplares
Somebody Spilled the Sky (1979) 9 exemplares
A Good Man and His Good Wife (1962) 6 exemplares
What A Fine Day For... (1967) 4 exemplares
How to Make an Earthquake (1954) 4 exemplares
My Little Library (1998) 3 exemplares
The Great Duffy (1946) 2 exemplares
This breast gothic (1973) 2 exemplares
The Cantilever Rainbow (1965) 2 exemplares
I Write It (1970) 2 exemplares
Monkey day (1973) 2 exemplares
Minä lennän (2010) 1 exemplar
Lifestories (1993) 1 exemplar
Una storia che cresce (2017) 1 exemplar
If Only 1 exemplar
This Thumbprint 1 exemplar
Under Twenty (1970) 1 exemplar

Associated Works

My Song Is Beautiful (1994) — Contribuidor — 66 exemplares
Wonders: Writings and Drawings for the Child in Us All (1980) — Contribuidor — 18 exemplares
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 6, February 1975 (1975) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 8, April 1974 (1974) — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
Locus Solus II (1961) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Telephone #9 — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Telephone #11 — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Telephone 14 — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Telephone 15 — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Nome legal
Krauss, Ruth Ida
Data de nascimento
1901-07-25
Data de falecimento
1993-07-10
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
USA
Local de nascimento
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Local de falecimento
Westport, Connecticut, USA
Locais de residência
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Educação
Parsons School of Design (BA|1929)
Ocupações
children's book author
poet
Relações
Johnson, Crockett (husband)
Prémios e menções honrosas
Caldecott Medal (1950 | 1954)

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Ruth Krauss was born in Baltimore, Maryland and graduated from the Parson School of Design in New York City. During the 1940s, she was a member of the Writers' Laboratory at the Bank Street College of Education. In 1943, she married Crockett Johnson, a children's book author and illustrator. They collaborated on many books for children, among them such classics such as The Carrot Seed (1945). Her book A Hole Is to Dig (1952) was illustrated by Maurice Sendak. She produced more than 30 books for children in her career and also wrote poems for an adult audience.

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One snowy day, all the wild animals run to celebrate the first flower of spring.
 
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KristenRoper | 14 outras críticas | Mar 14, 2024 |
One snowy day, all the wild animals run to celebrate the first flower of spring.
 
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KristenRoper | 14 outras críticas | Mar 14, 2024 |
Mostly a pretty slight and very silly book, with some very arresting images/lines every now and again.
 
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localgayangel | Mar 5, 2024 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
56
Also by
10
Membros
9,931
Popularidade
#2,395
Avaliação
3.9
Críticas
181
ISBN
200
Línguas
12

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