6/20/2023 0 Comments Time of wonder by robert mccloskeyHe spent the war in the United States, putting his inventing skills to use making visual aids. Though he had been awarded the Prix de Rome in 1939, World War II prevented his study abroad until 1949. His first book, Lentil, was published in 1940, the same year he married Margaret Durand, the daughter of children’s author Ruth Sawyer. After high school, he won a scholarship to the Vesper George School of Art in Boston and continued his studies at the National Academy of Design in New York City. As a boy, his interests included drawing, music (harmonica and oboe), and inventing gadgets. McCloskey was born in Hamilton, Ohio, where he spent his youth in a town very much like the ones he later described in Lentil (1940) and Homer Price. Probably best known for his picture books, including two Caldecott winners, Make Way for Duckling (1941) and Time of Wonder (1958), Robert McCloskey is also loved for his contemporary tall tales for older children, including Homer Price (1943) and for his illustrations for Keith Robertsons “Henry Reed” books.
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