Debby Atwell
Autore di The Thanksgiving Door
Opere di Debby Atwell
Opere correlate
Miss Moore Thought Otherwise: How Anne Carroll Moore Created Libraries for Children (2013) — Illustratore — 205 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1953-05-28
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Providence, RI, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Rockland, ME, USA
- Istruzione
- University of New Hampshire (BFA)
- Attività lavorative
- author
illustrator
artist
iconographer
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
Five in a Row (1)
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Autori correlati
Statistiche
- Opere
- 5
- Opere correlate
- 3
- Utenti
- 322
- Popolarità
- #73,505
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 13
- ISBN
- 13
Being a great admirer of Atwell's work, and having read her four other picture-books, as well as the three she illustrated for other authors, I was eager to pick up Barn - the last of her titles I had yet to read. I enjoyed it quite a bit, appreciating the beautiful folk-art style illustrations, and the theme of change and continuity, over time. In this latter respect, it reminded me of Atwell's Pearl and River, which offer a similar narrative of generations passing, as marked by one woman's life in the former, and by the health of a river, in the latter. Although I have read it last of all of Atwell's titles, it was actually the first book she both wrote and illustrated, and I think it is not quite as strong as those subsequent books. Still, it is quite lovely, and could be used in a unit on the landscape and history of New England, as well as a general story about the themes of time and change.… (altro)