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Elizabeth Orton Jones (1910–2005)

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When Elizabeth Orton Jones was a child living in Highland Park, Illinois, her mother bought her a big second-hand dollhouse. Her grandmother made some of the rugs and furniture for it. Elizabeth grew up to be a famous artist and children's book author. She won the Caldecott Medal in 1945, at age mostra altro 35, for her book Prayer for a Child. Two years later, she wrote Big Susan, featuring her dollhouse and dolls that inhabited it. The dolls, their furnishings and a replica dollhouse can be seen at the Highland Park Historical Society. For the last fifty years, Elizabeth's friends have called her by her nickname "Twig", after her book of the same name. She has written more than twenty books for children, and now lives in New Hampshire mostra meno

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Prayer for a Child (1941) — Illustratore — 1,130 copie
Canticle of the Sun (1224) — Illustratore, alcune edizioni173 copie
Small Rain (1943) — Illustratore — 97 copie
Told under the Magic Umbrella (1939) — Illustratore — 67 copie
Animal Friends and Adventures (1949) — Collaboratore — 55 copie
Told Under the Stars and Stripes (1945) — Collaboratore — 38 copie
Big and Little Creatures (1961) — Illustratore — 14 copie
The Peddler's Clock (1936) — Illustratore — 12 copie
Brownies - Hush! (1938) — Illustratore — 11 copie
What Miranda Knew (1946) — Illustratore — 2 copie

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Informazioni generali

Data di nascita
1910-06-25
Data di morte
2005-05-10
Sesso
female
Nazionalità
USA
Luogo di nascita
Highland Park, Illinois, USA
Luogo di morte
Peterborough, New Hampshire, USA
Luogo di residenza
Mason, New Hampshire, USA
Istruzione
École des Beaux Arts
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
University of Chicago (PhB 1932)
House in the Pines, Norton, Massachusetts
Attività lavorative
children's author
illustrator
children's book author
artist
painter
muralist
Relazioni
Jones, Jessie Orton (mother)
Breve biografia
Elizabeth Orton Jones was born in Highland Park, Illinois to an artistic and literary family. Her great-grandfather Joseph Russell Jones was a friend of President Lincoln and U.S. Minister to Belgium under President Grant. Her grandmother Annette L.R. Jones was a professional pianist. Her father George Roberts was a violinist and her mother Jessie Mae Orton Jones was a pianist and writer. Elizabeth grew up in a household that valued music, art, reading, and imagination, where people from all walks of life and various nationalities and races came to visit and talk. After graduating from the House in the Pines boarding school in Norton, Massachusetts, Elizabeth entered the University of Chicago, where she majored in art, and also took a full course load at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She graduated with a Ph.B. degree in 1932, and later that same year earned a Diplôme in painting at the École des Beaux Arts in Fontainebleau, France. Elizabeth then studied in Paris at the Académie Colarossi and with artist Camille Liausu. It was during this period that she began drawing and painting children. After she returned to the USA, she had a one-woman exhibit of her color etchings at the Smithsonian Institution. For her debut children's book, Ragman of Paris and His Ragamuffins (1937), she created two little French boys named Mich and Tobie. In 1940, she began to work on the illustrations for her book Maminka's Children with Lillian and William Glaser in New Yokr, who used a special process of drawing on grained plate glass. The resulting illustrations were characterized by their vividness, delicacy, and rich detail.
Over the course of her career, Elizabeth wrote and illustrated about two dozen books, including books by other writers as well as her own. She collaborated with her mother on four books. In 1945, Elizabeth
won the Caldecott Medal for her artwork for Rachel Field's book Prayer for a Child. After moving to Mason, New Hampshire, she began an association with the Crotched Mountain Center, a rehabilitation community for disabled children, after being commissioned to paint several murals for the center.

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A good book for reading aloud. Three children of a Czech immigrant mother live with her and their grandfather on a farm. They have many little adventures. It appears that Elizabeth Orton Jones may have also been the illustrator since none is credited.
 
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auntieknickers | Jul 17, 2020 |
Really enjoyable read-aloud for me, my 7yo son and 5yo daughter. They gave it 5 stars.

 
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kaciereads | 9 altre recensioni | Apr 9, 2020 |
This was a spur-of-the-moment read to get myself in the mood for the Christmas season. I'd never read it before, but it was a childhood favorite of my boyfriend's so I curious. And I felt I owed it to him after I laughed at the title.

The name 'Big Susan' is actually a reference to the size difference between the girl and her family of dolls, they mean no offense. This is a simple, nice story about how the doll family, so grateful to Susan for all she does for them, want to give her a gift for Christmas.

You see, dolls can't move or do anything for themselves except on one night a year, Christmas eve. Because. Their simple search for a gift becomes something of a light mystery, which is charmingly resolved.

The best features of the book are its illustrations, done by the author, and capture every detail of the dollhouse. Each room has its quirks, the just-out-of-scale furniture, the human sized toys (like the jack of the cover) interspersed throughout and the dolls themselves are well done.
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ManWithAnAgenda | 1 altra recensione | Feb 18, 2019 |
Huh. I loved making things for my dolls through my adolescence, and I still enjoy some doll and dollhouse stories. But this one verged on the twee, and I just don't see the appeal for re-reads.

Ok, it's cute they don't know what jacks are, and they clean their house for Big Susan, and name the new baby Little Susan. And I suppose I could forgive them for having servants, though the author's treatment of said Nurse and Cook is rather offensive. But I don't feel any depth, complexity, or resonance here. Even the most innocent & sheltered child has more going on in her life than is even possible in this fantasy world.

*My* dolls really lived. They had adventures, and arguments, and sorrows, and joys. And not just on Christmas night, either. Susan's dolls are almost boring. And Susan isn't in the book much at all - the title is misleading.
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Cheryl_in_CC_NV | 1 altra recensione | Jun 6, 2016 |

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