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Wesley Dennis (1903–1966)

Autore di Benjamin West and His Cat Grimalkin

12+ opere 1,204 membri 8 recensioni 3 preferito

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Comprende il nome: Wesley Dennis

Serie

Opere di Wesley Dennis

Flip (1941) 220 copie
Flip and the Morning (1950) 102 copie
Flip and the Cows (1942) 83 copie
Tumble: The Story of a Mustang (1966) — Autore — 56 copie
Palomino and Other Horses (1950) 15 copie
a crow I know (1957) 13 copie
Holiday 1 copia
Sea star 1 copia

Opere correlate

Black Beauty: criniera al vento (1877) — Illustratore, alcune edizioni17,872 copie
Misty of Chincoteague (1947) — Illustratore, alcune edizioni7,885 copie
Il re del vento (1948) — Illustratore, alcune edizioni5,784 copie
Red pony (1933) — Illustratore, alcune edizioni5,442 copie
Justin Morgan Had a Horse (1945) — Illustratore — 3,142 copie
Stormy, Misty's Foal (1947) — Illustratore — 2,996 copie
Sea Star: Orphan of Chincoteague (1949) — Illustratore — 2,662 copie
Brighty of the Grand Canyon (1953) — Illustratore — 2,633 copie
Mustang: Wild Spirit of the West (1966) — Illustratore, alcune edizioni1,448 copie
Album of Horses (1951) — Illustratore — 1,146 copie
Black Gold (1957) — Illustratore; Illustratore — 1,094 copie
White Stallion of Lipizza (1964) — Illustratore — 1,002 copie
Born to Trot (1950) — Illustratore — 805 copie
San Domingo: The Medicine Hat Stallion (1972) — Illustratore, alcune edizioni697 copie
Five O'Clock Charlie (1962) — Illustratore — 246 copie
Cinnabar: The One O'Clock Fox (1956) — Illustratore — 244 copie
Misty Treasury (Misty, Sea Star, and Stormy) (1902) — Illustratore, alcune edizioni145 copie
Birds at Home (1942) — Illustratore — 119 copie
Golden Sovereign (1945) — Illustratore — 78 copie
The Little Horse that Raced a Train (1959) — Illustratore — 77 copie
Album of Dogs (1955) — Illustratore, alcune edizioni73 copie
Ride Like an Indian! (1956) — Illustratore, alcune edizioni67 copie
Shamrock Queen (Always Reddy) (1947) — Illustratore — 62 copie
Bluegrass Champion (1949) — Illustratore — 48 copie
The Illustrated Marguerite Henry (1980) — Illustratore — 35 copie
The Red Pony [Penguin Readers] (2001) — Illustratore — 33 copie
Muley Ears: Nobody's Dog (1959) — Illustratore — 28 copie
Ticktock and Jim: The Story of a Modern Pony Express (1948) — Illustratore — 25 copie
Prairie Colt (1947) — Illustratore — 17 copie
Animal Friends Story Book (1928) — Illustratore — 14 copie
Copper Khan (1950) — Illustratore — 14 copie
Davy's Little Horse [A Rand McNally Elf Book] (1956) — Illustratore — 7 copie
24 Horses: A Treasury of Stories (1953) — Illustratore — 6 copie
Lance and Cowboy Billy (1950) — Illustratore — 6 copie
Little-or-Nothing from Nottingham — Illustratore — 5 copie
Lance and His First Horse (1949) — Illustratore — 5 copie
A Treasury of Dog Stories (1949) — Illustratore — 4 copie
Lord Buff and the Silver Star. (1955) — Illustratore — 4 copie

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Informazioni generali

Nome legale
Dennis, John Wesley
Data di nascita
1903-05-16
Data di morte
1966-09-05
Sesso
male
Nazionalità
USA
Luogo di nascita
Massachusetts, USA
Attività lavorative
children's book illustrator
children's book author

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Recensioni

Tumble the wild mustang is introduced, and then half the book is immediately given over to a brief history of horses in North America before coming back to Tumble and his capture by men who put the spirited steed in a rodeo as a bucking bronco. Tumble yearns to be free and jumps at the first chance that comes along.

With only a sentence or two per page, this spare and barely there tale is like a precursor to Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron and only takes a couple minutes to read.
 
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villemezbrown | Mar 18, 2024 |
Good little book from one of my favorite childhood authors. I never read this one as a kid, but my dad lost my old books so I recently bought a Marguerite Henry box set that includes this book.

Benjamin West is a 7- to 8-year-old Quaker boy a day's ride outside of Philadelphia. He and his large family run Door Latch Inn. Quakers don't have decor because life must be strictly practical. However, he dreams of painting. He adopts a black cat from a German boy that tried to rescue it, and named it Grimalkin. Grimalkin accompanies Benjamin from his first attempt at drawing, learning to use pigments from the Native Americans, meet important people in Philadelphia, and ultimately winning him a future outside conventional Quaker rules. That is history, and Henry weaves it into a comfy fictional narrative.

My main complaint is the pacing. We know what becomes of Benjamin in his adulthood, and this book focuses on his start. However, since it focuses on that first year or so, I kept feeling like I was still reading the first few chapters of a book--it didn't feel progressive. I'm not sure how Henry's writing had this effect on me, or if it was entirely just my mood.

Ultimately I put this story in the "sweet and simple" category. There's nothing truly wrong with it to me, but it also wasn't anything incredible. Just a gentle good.
… (altro)
 
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leah_markum | 3 altre recensioni | Oct 28, 2022 |
Benjamin West was born with an extraordinary gift—the gift of creating paintings of people, animals, and landscapes so true to life they “took one’s breath away.” But Benjamin is part of a deeply religious Quaker family, and Quaker beliefs forbid the creation of images. Because Benjamin’s family didn’t approve of his art, he had to make his own painting supplies. The local Native Americans taught him how to mix paints from earth, clay, and plants. And his cat, Grimalkin, sacrificed hair from his tail for Ben’s brushes.… (altro)
 
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wichitafriendsschool | 3 altre recensioni | Aug 29, 2022 |
Benjamin West was born with an extraordinary gift—the gift of creating paintings of people, animals, and landscapes so true to life they “took one’s breath away.” But Benjamin is part of a deeply religious Quaker family, and Quaker beliefs forbid the creation of images.
Because Benjamin’s family didn’t approve of his art, he had to make his own painting supplies. The local Native Americans taught him how to mix paints from earth, clay, and plants. And his cat, Grimalkin, sacrificed hair from his tail for Ben’s brushes.… (altro)
 
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wpcalibrary | 3 altre recensioni | Jun 15, 2022 |

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Utenti
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Popolarità
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Voto
3.9
Recensioni
8
ISBN
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