Debby Atwell
Autor/a de The Thanksgiving Door
Obres de Debby Atwell
Obres associades
Miss Moore Thought Otherwise: How Anne Carroll Moore Created Libraries for Children (2013) — Il·lustrador — 198 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 1953-05-28
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Providence, RI, USA
- Llocs de residència
- Rockland, ME, USA
- Educació
- University of New Hampshire (BFA)
- Professions
- author
illustrator
artist
iconographer
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
Five in a Row (1)
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 5
- També de
- 3
- Membres
- 318
- Popularitat
- #74,348
- Valoració
- 3.9
- Ressenyes
- 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.… (més)