Two artistic parents raised their child to be one of America’s greatest authors. Madeleine L’Engle was born on November 29, 1918, in Manhattan to Madeleine Barnett and Charles Camp. Her full name was Madeleine L’Engle Camp but she was commonly known as Madeleine L’Engle, after her grandmother(Martin). Her father was involved in World War I, but retreated back to the United States, due to damaged lungs caused by mustard gas. Upon his return he wrote short stories, movies, and plays, as Madeleine Barnett was a pianist. While both parents were involved in the artistic side of life, Madeleine L’Engle was an only child but had the company of her nanny, Mrs. O’Connell. While located in New York, she had many opportunities, and she had many people visit her parents, most were very artistic alike her parents. While living around the arts, she wrote her first short story at the age of five. Then went on to win a poetry contest in fifth grade. However, her teacher accused her of plagiarizing, sensing that Madeleine L’Engle was not talented enough, but her mother reinforced her gift by showing everything Madeleine had written at home("Madeleine L'Engle"). L'Engle also recounted that an elementary teacher called her stupid(Martin). Around the age of twelve, Madeleine and her parents relocated to Switzerland, where she attended a boarding school, Chatelard. After a couple years, the Camps returned to the United States to be with Madeleine L'Engle's grandmother who had fallen ill. They lived in Florida but, Madeleine was soon sent to South Carolina to attend Ashley Hall Boarding School. She was barely a year away from graduation when her father died in 1936. Upon graduating, she set her sights on majoring in English at Smith College("Madeleine ...
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My articles and illustrations were published in numerous magazines, including LIFE and Vanity Fair. A cartoon that I published in the July 1927 issue of The Saturday Evening Post, earned me a staff position at the New York weekly Judge. I then worked for Standard Oil in the advertising department for 15 years, where I began drawing “Quick, Henry, the Flit!” advertisements. In 1937, I published my first book, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street. As World War II started, I found myself increasingly drawn to the war effort. Therefore I joined the United States Army Motion Picture Unit, in 1943. After the war, in 1954, I published Horton Hears a Who!. In 1957, I published The Cat in the Hat and How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, and became the president of Beginner Books. In 1960, I published Green Eggs and Ham. Unfortunately, in 1967, my wife died, a year after How the Grinch Stole Christmas! appeared on TV. Thus, in 1968, I married Audrey Dimond. In 1984, I won a special Pulitzer Prize for contribution to children’s literature. However, due to oral cancer, I passed away on September 24, 1991 in
“Geisel found his niche churning out tales of the weird and the whimsical, populating them with squawking fish and top-hatted cats.” Very few child...
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A Wrinkle In Time is an example of great American literature. It is a plot-based novel with something always happening while an obstacle is standing in the way. Most of the conflict occurring in this book is person versus self and person versus supernatural. A certain aspect that is very prevalent in this book is love. This love takes the characters on the trip of a lifetime, for the sole purpose of finding her father. This love in the background is not known by the reader until the last few pages, and ends up encompassing and explaining the whole novel.
She received her first typewriter as a teen and received ardent support from her parents over her choice of a career as she wrote through her high school and college time. She earned a scholarship to attend Syracuse University and graduated valedictorian in the year 1960. She then received her master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin in the year 1961. She took on teaching work at the University of Windsor in Canada. She and her husband went on to work as co-editors on the literary quarterly publication “The Ontario Review; she then later on took on a teaching position at Princeton University in the late 1970’s.
Northern Lights and Tom's Midnight Garden which are both prizewinning, children's books will be discussed in relation to David Rudd's 'defence' of the work of Enid Blyton. This will be achieved by answering the following questions and tying them into Rudd's essay. How can the success of a children’s book best be quantified? What criteria are used for judging children’s books? How do the chosen texts stand up to this criteria? Who are different groups that judge children's books and what criteria do each of them have? How have the criteria for judging the merits of children’s literature changed since the eighteenth century? What are the arguments for defending Enid Blyton? Finally, are the arguments presented sound, and if they are what impact does this have on how we judge children's books in general?
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When I was in middle school, every student was required to participate in D.E.A.R. day, or Drop Everything and Read, once a week during homeroom. We could read anything we wished to, and I loved that we were given time to read, but I rarely remembered to bring a book of my own. One week, I chose a book from my homeroom teacher’s shelf, and I read a good portion of it during the 30 minutes allotted. This book was called “A Wrinkle in Time” by Madeleine L’Engle. A Wrinkle in Time
According to literary critic Clifton Fadiman, “Theodor Geisel Seuss provided ingenious and uniquely witty solutions to the standing problem of illiteracy among children (qtd. in Kaplan).” Due to various influential figures and profound experiences during his lifetime, as well as expert use of creative literary techniques, Theodor Seuss Geisel’s children’s books continue to compel readers of all ages – allowing them to escape into different worlds filled with nonsense.
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