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Title: Atwater - Mr. Popper's Penguins
Date: 1948-01-11
Description: One letter from Florence Atwater to Elizabeth Rider Montgomery. Mr. Popper's Penguins was a Newbery Honor book in 1939. Illustrated by Robert Lawson, the story continues to be enjoyed today.
Digital Collection: 20th Century Children's Authors
Type of resource: text
Object custodian: Special Collections
Related Collection: 20th century children's authors collection: writing about writing in letters and personal narratives
Local Identifier: 20thCCA_atwater
Text preview (might not show all results): <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <mods xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w
Show more<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <mods xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <identifier type="local">20th Century Children's Authors - Atwater</identifier> <abstract> ---------- 20th Century Children's Authors - Florence Atwater - Mr. Popper's Penguins ---------- ---------- 20thCCA_Atwater_01 ---------- 7861 South Shore Drive Chicago, Illinois January 11, 1948 Miss Elizabeth R. Montgomery Seattle, Washington My dear Miss Montgomery: I am sorry to have been so long in answering you. I did get your questionnaire, but found it a little formidable. Indeed I did not know how to answer a good deal of it. However, I can probably answer the questions in your letter - at least about Mr. Popper's Penguin's. My husband has been hopelessly paralyzed for the last fourteen years - but the facts about his career before then you could probably dig out of some old Who's Who. When he was quite young he taught Greek at the University of Chicago (I was one of his students there, as a matter of fact) but he gave up the academic life for journalism. For a number of years he wrote a humorous column for the old Chicago Evening Post over the signature Riq. He used also to write articles for magazines. As for the genesis of the penguin book, it grew out of our seeing the Byrd movies of Antarctica expedition. We were so enchanted with the movies of the penguins that like Mr. Popper. We sat through the movie twice. My husband began the book shortly after - probably with our own two daughters in mind for the audience. He abandoned the manuscript, however, and I dug it out of his desk a couple of ---------- 20thCCA_Atwater_02 ---------- years after his stroke, and decided to finish it. (I had previously done a few short pieces for magazines myself). The original manuscript was much more of a fantasy than the final form: it was all a sort of dream. I rewrote the first few chapters and supplied a practical domestic background. The humorous chapters, such as the one where the repairman is called to bore holes in the icebox for the penguins, I left untouched. The last few chapters I had to supply entirely. Does this answer your questions? It is kind of you to be interested, and I am sorry to have been to slow in answering. Sincerely yours, Florence Atwater (Mrs. Richard Atwater) </abstract> </mods>
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Title: Daugherty - Andy and the Lion
Date: 1947
Description: Three page letter from James Daugherty to Elizabeth Rider Montgomery. Andy and the Lion was published in 1938 by Viking Press. The book was a runner-up for the Caldecott Award in 1939. A retelling of the fable Androcles and the Lion, Daugherty orginally designed the story as a wordless book. Text was added before publication at the request of the publisher.
Digital Collection: 20th Century Children's Authors
Type of resource: text
Object custodian: Special Collections
Related Collection: 20th century children's authors collection: writing about writing in letters and personal narratives
Local Identifier: 20thCCA_daugherty
Text preview (might not show all results): drawings were make in brush and ink and a separate set of drawings for the yellow plate which enriches and gives depth to the printed impression. ---------- 20thCCA_Daugherty_03 ---------- Up to this
Show more drawings were make in brush and ink and a separate set of drawings for the yellow plate which enriches and gives depth to the printed impression. ---------- 20thCCA_Daugherty_03 ---------- Up to this point there were to be no words accompanying the pictu tures but when the proofs came in the editors decided that people were unaccustomed to reading pictures without text and that there must be words. As I
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Title: d'Aulaire - Ola
Date: 1948
Description: Letter from Edgar and Ingri d'Aulaire to Elizabeth Rider Montgomery; Four page questionnaire completed by Edgar d'Aulaire; Four page questionnaire completed by Ingri d'Aulaire. Ola was published in 1932 by Doubleday Doran. The d'Aularies wrote and published as an author-illustator team gathering inspiration from nature and nordic folktales. According to the d'Aulaires, the intent of Ola was to present Norway to American children.
Digital Collection: 20th Century Children's Authors
Type of resource: text
Object custodian: Special Collections
Related Collection: 20th century children's authors collection: writing about writing in letters and personal narratives
Local Identifier: 20thCCA_daulaire
Text preview (might not show all results): ?: all of it If you did them yourself, which came first, the pictures or the text? pictures What medium did you work in?: lithography How much experience had you had in illustrating?: 10 years -------
Show more?: all of it If you did them yourself, which came first, the pictures or the text? pictures What medium did you work in?: lithography How much experience had you had in illustrating?: 10 years ---------- 20thCCA_d'Alaire_06 ---------- D. WHAT SORT OF PERSON YOU ARE What did you look like when you wrote this book? Dark or fair?: Medium Tall or short?: Medium Thin or plump?: Medium Color of eyes
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Title: Gramatky - Little Toot
Date: 1948-04-21
Description: Four page questionnaire completed by Hardie Gramatky; one letter from Hardie Gramatky to Elizabeth Rider Montgomery with suggested chapter revisions. Little Toot was published in 1939 by G. P. Putnam's Sons. Inspired by his studio view of tugboats on the East River in New York City, Little Toot was Gamatky's first children's book.
Digital Collection: 20th Century Children's Authors
Type of resource: text
Object custodian: Special Collections
Related Collection: 20th century children's authors collection: writing about writing in letters and personal narratives
Local Identifier: 20thCCA_gramatky
Text preview (might not show all results): or the text? In this case the pictures did. I was just doing them for fun. What medium did you work in?: Water-color. How much experience had you had in illustrating?: no children's books-- cartoons
Show more or the text? In this case the pictures did. I was just doing them for fun. What medium did you work in?: Water-color. How much experience had you had in illustrating?: no children's books-- cartoons and a few commercial drawings, only. These illustrations were based primarily upon impressions set down in watercolor of the actual scene before me. ---------- 20thCCA_Gramatky_04 ---------- D. WHAT SORT
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Title: Holling - Paddle to the Sea
Date: 1948
Description: Four page questionnaire completed by Holling Clancy Holling; Three letters to Elizabeth Rider Montgomery from Holling Clancy Holling. Paddle to the Sea was named a Caldecott Honor Book in 1942 and received the Lewis Caroll Shelf Award in 1962.
Digital Collection: 20th Century Children's Authors
Type of resource: text
Object custodian: Special Collections
Related Collection: 20th century children's authors collection: writing about writing in letters and personal narratives
Local Identifier: 20thCCA_holling
Text preview (might not show all results): with the illustrations of your book?: Practically everything except making the plates. If you did them yourself, which came first, the pictures or the text?: Text What medium did you work in?: Water-
Show more with the illustrations of your book?: Practically everything except making the plates. If you did them yourself, which came first, the pictures or the text?: Text What medium did you work in?: Water-color, pencil, pen How much experience had you had in illustrating?: years. ---------- 20thCCA_Holling_08 ---------- D. WHAT SORT OF PERSON YOU ARE What did you look like when you wrote this book? Dark or Fair?: Dark Tall
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Title: Knight - Lassie Come Home
Date: 1947-11-19-1948-02-26
Description: Four page questionnaire completed by Jere Knight; one letter to Jere knight from Elizabeth Rider Mongomery; one letter to Elizabeth Rider Montgomery from Elizabeth Morton. Lassie Come Home was published by John C. Winston Co. in 1940.
Digital Collection: 20th Century Children's Authors
Type of resource: text
Object custodian: Special Collections
Related Collection: 20th century children's authors collection: writing about writing in letters and personal narratives
Local Identifier: 20thCCA_knight
Text preview (might not show all results): book?: He originally did a set of illustrations of his own in black and white, as well as a color jacket for book, but Winston decided on Kirmse. If he did them himself, which came first, the picture
Show more book?: He originally did a set of illustrations of his own in black and white, as well as a color jacket for book, but Winston decided on Kirmse. If he did them himself, which came first, the pictures or the text? He was in touch with Kirmse when she was doing the illustrations, and answered all questions she had put to him on type of dog, etc. ---------- 20thCCA_Knight_04 ---------- D. WHAT SORT
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Title: Lattimore - Little Pear
Date: 1947-12-02-1948-02-09
Description: Four page questionnaire completed by Eleanor Frances Lattimore; Two letters to Elizabeth Rider Montgomery from Eleanor Frances Lattimore; Little Pear was published in 1931 by Harcourt, Brace and Co. The Eleanor Frances Lattimore Papers are housed in the de Grummond Collection at The University of Southern Mississippi.
Digital Collection: 20th Century Children's Authors
Type of resource: text
Object custodian: Special Collections
Related Collection: 20th century children's authors collection: writing about writing in letters and personal narratives
Local Identifier: 20thCCA_lattimore
Text preview (might not show all results): children, and this accounts for my working at night, if I'm doing a book. Keeping house takes care of all the daytime hours. C. ILLUSTRATIONS How much did you have to do with the illustrations of you
Show more children, and this accounts for my working at night, if I'm doing a book. Keeping house takes care of all the daytime hours. C. ILLUSTRATIONS How much did you have to do with the illustrations of your book?: I made them all (105 of them) If you did them yourself, which came first, the pictures or the text?: I made a few "sample" dreawings, submitted with the manuscript. What medium did you
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