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Miriam Schlein (1926–2004)

Autor(a) de More Than One

103+ Works 3,457 Membros 55 Críticas

About the Author

Miriam Schlein, whose nearly one hundred books, written over 50 years, taught very young children about animals and concepts like time and space, died on Nov. 23, 2004 in New York. She was 78 and lived in Manhattan. Ms. Schlein found new ways of telling children about bats and skunks and porcupines mostrar mais and their behavior even as she cleared up myths about them. Some of her books were about dinosaurs: "Before the Dinosaurs" (1996), illustrated by Michael Rothman; "The Dino Quiz Book" (1995), illustrated by Nate Evans; "Let's Go Dinosaur Tracking!" (1991), illustrated by Kate Duke; and "Discovering Dinosaur Babies" (1991), illustrated by Margaret Colbert. Other works featured elephants, pandas, sea horses. pigeons and squirrels. Two new books, her last: "The Story About Me," and "Little Raccoon's Big Question." She first appeared in print in 1951 with "A Day at the Playground" from Golden Books, where she worked as a secretary. Ms. Schlein received a B.A. in English and psychology from Brooklyn College in 1947 and then held a number of jobs in advertising and publishing. She was in the children's department of Simon & Schuster when she decided that her future lay in writing. She pursued it with a series of books about concepts, illustrated by Leonard Kessler and published by William R. Scott. They included "Shapes" (1952) and "Heavy Is a Hippopotamus." In the 1950's she also wrote some stories about children and animals that won her wide recognition and awards, including "Four Little Foxes," "Elephant Herd," and "When Will the World Be Mine?" about a baby snowshoe rabbit, which The New Yorker called "a poetic book." Some of Ms. Schlein's books were Junior Literary Guild Selections and several of her natural-science titles received Outstanding Science Books for Children awards. "When Will the World Be Mine?" (1953), republished 20 years later as "The Rabbit's World," was named a Caldecott Honor Book. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos

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Obras por Miriam Schlein

More Than One (1996) 488 exemplares
The Year of the Panda (1900) 475 exemplares
Little Raccoon's Big Question (2004) 375 exemplares
Hello, Hello! (2002) 137 exemplares
The Way Mothers Are (1892) 137 exemplares
I Sailed With Columbus (1991) 129 exemplares
Just Like Me (1993) 70 exemplares
Secret Land of the Past (1992) 67 exemplares
Prayers and Blessings (1983) 60 exemplares
Sukkot and Simḥat Torah (1983) 58 exemplares
Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur (1983) 57 exemplares
Purim (1750) 54 exemplares
Hanukkah (1983) 53 exemplares
Before the Dinosaurs (1996) 51 exemplares
Shabbat (1983) 50 exemplares
Passover (1983) 50 exemplares
Shavuot (1983) 49 exemplares
Big Talk (1955) 41 exemplares
The Dino Quiz Book (1995) 28 exemplares
Shapes (1952) 25 exemplares
Let's Go Dinosaur Tracking! (1991) 24 exemplares
Heavy Is a Hippopotamus (1954) 17 exemplares
The Story about Me (1885) 17 exemplares
When Will the World Be Mine? (1953) 16 exemplares
Fast is Not a Ladybug (1950) 16 exemplares
Project Panda Watch (1984) 16 exemplares
What's Wrong With Being a Skunk? (1974) 15 exemplares
The Snake in the Carpool (1963) 14 exemplares
Discovering Dinosaur Babies (1991) 14 exemplares
Elephant Herd (1954) 14 exemplares
Deer in the Snow (1961) 13 exemplares
Lucky Porcupine! (1980) — Autor — 11 exemplares
Little Red Nose (1955) 11 exemplares
A Day at the Playground (1951) 11 exemplares
City Boy, Country Boy (1955) 11 exemplares
Billions of Bats (1982) 11 exemplares
Here Comes Night (1957) 10 exemplares
Giraffe: The Silent Giant (1976) 10 exemplares
Amazing Mr. Pelgrew (1957) 9 exemplares
The Big Cheese (1965) 8 exemplares
Snow Time (1962) 7 exemplares
Squirrel Watching (1992) 7 exemplares
How do you travel? (1954) 7 exemplares
That's Not Goldie (1990) 7 exemplares
The Sun Looks Down (1954) 6 exemplares
The best place (1968) 6 exemplares
Little Dog Little (1959) 6 exemplares
It's About Time (1955) 6 exemplares
Bad News for Pandas (1997) 6 exemplares
Home: The Tale of a Mouse (1958) 6 exemplares
Pigeons (1989) 6 exemplares
Bobo the Troublemaker (1976) 6 exemplares
Big Lion, Little Lion (1964) 6 exemplares
Billy the Littlest One (1966) 6 exemplares
Moon-Months and Sun-Days (1972) 5 exemplares
The fisherman's day (1959) 5 exemplares
My House (1971) 5 exemplares
The Rabbit's World (1973) 5 exemplares
Amuny: Boy of Old Egypt (1961) 4 exemplares
Oomi, the new hunter; (1955) 4 exemplares
Laurie's new brother (1961) 4 exemplares
I Hate It (Self-Starter) (1978) 4 exemplares
Herman McGregor's World (1958) 3 exemplares
Lazy day 3 exemplares
My Family (1960) 2 exemplares
Go with the Sun (1952) 2 exemplares
Puppy's House (1955) 2 exemplares
The Pile of Junk (1962) 2 exemplares
Henry's ride 1 exemplar
OUR HOLIDAYS 1 exemplar
Our Holiday Series 1 exemplar
The Four Little Foxes (1953) 1 exemplar
Tony's Pony 1 exemplar
Round and Square (1999) 1 exemplar

Associated Works

Best in Children's Books 18 (1959) 95 exemplares
Best in Children's Books 28 (1959) 75 exemplares

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Data de nascimento
1926-06-06
Data de falecimento
2004-11-23
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
USA
Local de falecimento
Manhattan, New York, USA
Locais de residência
New York, New York, USA
Ocupações
children's book author
Relações
Weiss, Harvey (husband - divorced)

Membros

Críticas

EducatingParents.org rating: Approved
 
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MamaBearLendingDen | 17 outras críticas | Dec 2, 2023 |
Children's chapter book with a nice lesson on sharing, and it involves a snake. I'll have to read it to my grandkids.
 
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bness2 | Aug 20, 2021 |
I saw this book on top of a stack of juvenile non-fictions at work and had to read it. I freaking love pandas. It was a cute, short read, and the pictures are nice (and isn't the main pull of these the pictures, honestly?), although reading about how they struggle to eat sometimes when the bamboo dies out for a year is depressing.
 
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sarahlh | Mar 6, 2021 |
Miriam Schlein describes the history and meaning of the Sukkot festival and the holiday of Simḥat Torah in this slender paperback picture-book. She discusses how the farmers of ancient Israel used booths, or sukkot, while harvesting their crops, and how the modern Jewish custom of building a sukkah for the harvest festival reflects both this, and the huts the Israelites used when they were wandering in the wilderness. Next she discusses how Simḥat Torah comes at the end of Sukkot, and marks the point in the Jewish calendar at which the reading through of the Torah concludes, only to begin again...

Published in 1983, Sukkot and Simḥat Torah is one of a number of slender little books about the Jewish holidays - Hanukkah, Passover, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, Shavuot - that Schlein published with Behrman House. It is informative, rather than story-based, and is paired with colorful artwork, done in a cute cartoon style, from Amye Rosenberg. Because it offers a basic, factual overview of the two eponymous holidays, I think this would make a good introduction to the subject, both for Jewish children and for Non-Jewish children not already familiar with Sukkot and Simḥat Torah.
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Estatísticas

Obras
103
Also by
2
Membros
3,457
Popularidade
#7,356
Avaliação
½ 3.7
Críticas
55
ISBN
142
Línguas
1

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