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Wesley Dennis (1903–1966)

Auteur de Benjamin West and His Cat Grimalkin

12+ oeuvres 1,204 utilisateurs 8 critiques 3 Favoris

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Comprend les noms: Wesley Dennis

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Œuvres de Wesley Dennis

Benjamin West and His Cat Grimalkin (1947) 710 exemplaires
Flip (1941) 220 exemplaires
Flip and the Morning (1950) 102 exemplaires
Flip and the Cows (1942) 83 exemplaires
Tumble: The Story of a Mustang (1966) — Auteur — 56 exemplaires
Palomino and Other Horses (1950) 15 exemplaires
a crow I know (1957) 13 exemplaires
Holiday 1 exemplaire
Sea star 1 exemplaire

Oeuvres associées

Black Beauty (1877) — Illustrateur, quelques éditions17,869 exemplaires
Misty of Chincoteague (1947) — Illustrateur, quelques éditions7,883 exemplaires
King of the Wind: The Story of the Godolphin Arabian (1948) — Illustrateur, quelques éditions5,781 exemplaires
Le poney rouge (1933) — Illustrateur, quelques éditions5,440 exemplaires
Justin Morgan Had a Horse (1945) — Illustrateur — 3,142 exemplaires
Stormy, Misty's Foal (1947) — Illustrateur — 2,995 exemplaires
Sea Star: Orphan of Chincoteague (1949) — Illustrateur — 2,661 exemplaires
Brighty of the Grand Canyon (1953) — Illustrateur — 2,633 exemplaires
Mustang: Wild Spirit of the West (1966) — Illustrateur, quelques éditions1,448 exemplaires
Album of Horses (1951) — Illustrateur — 1,146 exemplaires
Black Gold (1957) — Illustrateur; Illustrateur — 1,094 exemplaires
White Stallion of Lipizza (1964) — Illustrateur — 1,002 exemplaires
Born to Trot (1950) — Illustrateur — 805 exemplaires
San Domingo: The Medicine Hat Stallion (1972) — Illustrateur, quelques éditions697 exemplaires
Five O'Clock Charlie (1962) — Illustrateur — 246 exemplaires
Cinnabar: The One O'Clock Fox (1956) — Illustrateur — 244 exemplaires
Misty Treasury (Misty, Sea Star, and Stormy) (1902) — Illustrateur, quelques éditions145 exemplaires
Birds at Home (1942) — Illustrateur — 119 exemplaires
Golden Sovereign (1945) — Illustrateur — 78 exemplaires
The Little Horse that Raced a Train (1959) — Illustrateur — 77 exemplaires
Album of Dogs (1955) — Illustrateur, quelques éditions73 exemplaires
Ride Like an Indian! (1956) — Illustrateur, quelques éditions67 exemplaires
Shamrock Queen (Always Reddy) (1947) — Illustrateur — 62 exemplaires
Bluegrass Champion (1949) — Illustrateur — 48 exemplaires
The Illustrated Marguerite Henry (1980) — Illustrateur — 35 exemplaires
The Red Pony [Penguin Readers] (2001) — Illustrateur — 33 exemplaires
Muley Ears: Nobody's Dog (1959) — Illustrateur — 28 exemplaires
Ticktock and Jim: The Story of a Modern Pony Express (1948) — Illustrateur — 25 exemplaires
Prairie Colt (1947) — Illustrateur — 17 exemplaires
Animal Friends Story Book (1928) — Illustrateur — 14 exemplaires
Copper Khan (1950) — Illustrateur — 14 exemplaires
Davy's Little Horse [A Rand McNally Elf Book] (1956) — Illustrateur — 7 exemplaires
24 Horses: A Treasury of Stories (1953) — Illustrateur — 6 exemplaires
Lance and Cowboy Billy (1950) — Illustrateur — 6 exemplaires
Little-or-Nothing from Nottingham — Illustrateur — 5 exemplaires
Lance and His First Horse (1949) — Illustrateur — 5 exemplaires
A Treasury of Dog Stories (1949) — Illustrateur — 4 exemplaires
Lord Buff and the Silver Star. (1955) — Illustrateur — 4 exemplaires
A Cavalcade of Horses in Fact, Fantasy and Fiction — Illustrateur — 1 exemplaire

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Nom légal
Dennis, John Wesley
Date de naissance
1903-05-16
Date de décès
1966-09-05
Sexe
male
Nationalité
USA
Lieu de naissance
Massachusetts, USA
Professions
children's book illustrator
children's book author

Membres

Critiques

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.
 
Signalé
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.
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leah_markum | 3 autres critiques | 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.… (plus d'informations)
 
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wichitafriendsschool | 3 autres critiques | 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.… (plus d'informations)
 
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wpcalibrary | 3 autres critiques | Jun 15, 2022 |

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Statistiques

Œuvres
12
Aussi par
43
Membres
1,204
Popularité
#21,330
Évaluation
3.9
Critiques
8
ISBN
26
Favoris
3

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