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Margery Williams (1881–1944)

Autor(a) de The Velveteen Rabbit

78+ Works 15,873 Membros 240 Críticas 8 Favorited

About the Author

Author Margery Williams was born in London, England on July 22, 1881. She moved to the United States when she was nine-years-old and alternated between living in the United States and England for the rest of her life. She is best known for her thirty children's books, but she also wrote novels for mostrar mais adults and young adults. Her most popular works include The Velveteen Rabbit, Poor Cecco: The Wonderful Story of a Wonderful Wooden Dog Who Was the Jolliest Toy in the House Until He Went Out to Explore the World, and The Little Wooden Doll. Her young adult book, Winterbound, was a runner-up for the 1937 Newbery Medal and was retroactively given the Newbery Honor award when it was established in 1971. She died on September 4, 1944 at the age of 63. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Image credit: Portrait of Margery Williams by James Bolivar Manson, 1911

Obras por Margery Williams

The Velveteen Rabbit (1922) 13,892 exemplares
Winterbound (1936) 72 exemplares
The Little Wooden Doll (1765) 47 exemplares
Tales from a Finnish Tupa (1936) — Joint Author., algumas edições46 exemplares
Poor Cecco (1925) 29 exemplares
The Five-and-a-Half Club (1942) 24 exemplares
The New Five-and-a-Half Club (1951) 11 exemplares
A Street of Little Shops (1932) 11 exemplares
Airport Design (Design Books) (2005) 8 exemplares
The Hurdy-Gurdy Man (1933) 8 exemplares
Seven Silly Wise Men (1970) 7 exemplares
The Velveteen Rabbit (1987) 7 exemplares
Bright morning, (1942) 7 exemplares
The Thing in the Woods (2015) 6 exemplares
Forward, Commandos! (1947) 6 exemplares
The good friends (1934) 5 exemplares
The house that grew smaller (1931) 5 exemplares
The Adventures of Andy (1927) 3 exemplares
The Velveteen Rabbit [play] (1986) — Original story — 3 exemplares
All About Pets (1938) 3 exemplares
Rufus, the fox (1937) 3 exemplares
Other People's Houses (1939) 3 exemplares
The apple tree (1926) 2 exemplares
The Candlestick 2 exemplares
Franzi and Gizi (1941) 2 exemplares
The Velveteen Rabbit 2 exemplares
The Price of Youth 2 exemplares
The Late Returning 2 exemplares
Velveteen Rabbit Abridged (2003) 2 exemplares
Poor Cecco 1 exemplar
More About Animals 1 exemplar
Spendthrift Summer 1 exemplar

Associated Works

The Illustrated Treasury of Children's Literature, Volumes 1-2 (1955) — Contribuidor — 457 exemplares
The Fireside Book of Christmas Stories (1945) — Contribuidor — 280 exemplares
The New Junior Classics Volume 07: The Animal Book (1938) — Contribuidor — 200 exemplares
The New Junior Classics Volume 06: Stories About Boys and Girls (1938) — Contribuidor — 188 exemplares
Best in Children's Books 10 (1958) 148 exemplares
Best in Children's Books 21 (1959) 84 exemplares
Best in Children's Books 06 (1958) 83 exemplares
Best in Children's Books 35 (1960) 73 exemplares
Best in Children's Books 19 (1959) 71 exemplares
Best in Children's Books 26 (1959) 68 exemplares
Best in Children's Books 10A (1963) 59 exemplares
The Velveteen Rabbit [2009 film] (2009) — Autor — 56 exemplares
A Golden Land (1958) — Contribuidor — 42 exemplares
3-Minute Stories: Bedtime Tales (2006) — Contribuidor — 38 exemplares
Best in Children's Books 19A (1967) 28 exemplares
Lisbeth Longfrock (1903) — Tradutor, algumas edições26 exemplares
Open the Door (1965) — Contribuidor — 22 exemplares
Tales Out Of Dunwich (2004) — Contribuidor — 19 exemplares
The Velveteen Rabbit (Cherished Fairy Tales) (1995) — Original Author — 17 exemplares
The Velveteen Rabbit [1985 TV movie] (1985) — Original story — 8 exemplares
Vintage Christmas Tales: A Holiday Anthology (2022) — Contribuidor — 7 exemplares
Sølve Suntrap ... Translated by Anna Barwell (1910) — Tradutor, algumas edições6 exemplares
Writing Books for Boys and Girls (1952) — Contribuidor, algumas edições5 exemplares
The Velveteen Rabbit (Clay Classics) [2004 film] (2003) — Original book — 4 exemplares
Juniper Farm, "Il était quatre petits enfants" — Tradutor, algumas edições3 exemplares
Bruin's Midnight Reader (2021) — Contribuidor, algumas edições3 exemplares

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Nome canónico
Williams, Margery
Outros nomes
Bianco, Margery Williams
Williams, Margery Winifred
Bianco, Margery
Williams, Harper (pseudonym)
Data de nascimento
1881-07-22
Data de falecimento
1944-09-04
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
UK (birth)
USA (naturalized)
País (no mapa)
USA
Local de nascimento
London, England, UK
Local de falecimento
New York, New York, USA
Locais de residência
London, England, UK
New York, New York, USA
Pennsylvania, USA
Turin, Italy
Educação
Convent School, Sharon Hill, Pennsylvania
Ocupações
children's book author
short story author
novelist
translator
essayist
Relações
Bianco, Pamela (daughter)
Williams, Robert (father)
Prémios e menções honrosas
Newbery Honor (1937)

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British-born Margery Winifred Williams moved with her parents to the USA in 1890. She became a professional writer at age 19. In 1904, on a visit to her English publisher, she met and married Francisco Bianco, an Italian living in London. The couple went to live in Turin, Italy, for many years. Margery eventually returned with her own family to the USA in 1921. She's best remembered today for The Velveteen Rabbit; or, How Toys Become Real. It became an instant classic and has been adapted many times as theater, radio, television, and animated films. In her final years, she interspersed writing novels for young adults with her children's books, and her daughter Pamela illustrated some of the works. Margery Willams won a Newbery Honor in 1937 for Winterbound.

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Independent Reading Level: Grades 3-5
IRA/CBC Children's Choice award
 
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LisaCook14 | 2 outras críticas | Dec 7, 2023 |
Meanwhile, back in my umpteenth childhood, another book I read for the first time...

This beautiful, classic children's story about a boy and his toy rabbit, who becomes Real, is sweet, sad, and magical.
 
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Steven1958 | 221 outras críticas | Aug 23, 2023 |
#564 in our old book database. Not rated. Jan. 19, 1990.
 
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villemezbrown | 221 outras críticas | May 9, 2023 |
#564 in our old book database. Not rated. Jan. 19, 1990.

I recall that I didn't much like this book the first time I read it decades ago, but I decided to give it another go when the 100th Anniversary edition turned up on NPR's list of best children's books of 2022 that I'm reading as one of my 2023 goals.

The art for this edition is by Erin Stead, and overall I do prefer her style over the art by William Nicholson in the edition that my family owns, but the muted colors and droopy characters radiate moroseness from the get-go and throughout the tale. And while her rabbit is fine, as drawn it doesn't really match the description in the text as to the stuffed animal's form and really doesn't look much different from its first appearance to its supposedly worn look near the end of the story.

The story and its mythology really irritate me, and I ranted to my wife for quite awhile last night after we read the book together. Here's a taste of it. For starters, I'm torn between the Skin Horse being a false prophet of a faux religion of Real created to distract from the actual revelations of the tale's end, or the Skin Horse being John the Baptist to the Velveteen Rabbit's Christ who is risen again to immortality and finally opening the way for all toys to Heaven on Earth. And if there are two levels of Real, are there more? Say, fifteen, perhaps, as in Scientology? Will the Velveteen Rabbit continue to transcend as he tires of immortality on Earth? Will watching all the real rabbits in his life die every nine years as he goes on and on without the sweet release of death push him to a new epiphany of Real (Level 3)? Or will another random fairy/angel just pop up in time to move the story/pilgrimage along? Meanwhile, what about China Dog, the boy's first beloved toy? Did he achieve either level of Real or is he stuck in some limbo? What sins weigh down the soul of the Skin Horse that he is denied the second level of Real? What inherent evil of the modern age prevents mechanical toys from being able to enter the realm of Real? Is Williams a Luddite or simply unable to progress due to crippling obsession with nostalgia?

Or is this all just an attempt to create a parent cover story for throwing away kids' toys? The family pet goes off to live on "a farm in the country" and all the missing toys are now frolicking in the forest with the real animals.

Anyhow, I still don't like this book.

(Another project! I'm trying to read all the picture books and graphic novels on the kids section of NPR's Books We Love 2022.)
… (mais)
 
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villemezbrown | 221 outras críticas | May 9, 2023 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
78
Also by
29
Membros
15,873
Popularidade
#1,430
Avaliação
4.2
Críticas
240
ISBN
435
Línguas
13
Marcado como favorito
8

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