Miriam Schlein (1926–2004)
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Miriam Schlein, whose nearly one hundred books, written over 50 years, taught very young children about animals and concepts like time and space, died on Nov. 23, 2004 in New York. She was 78 and lived in Manhattan. Ms. Schlein found new ways of telling children about bats and skunks and porcupines afficher plus and their behavior even as she cleared up myths about them. Some of her books were about dinosaurs: "Before the Dinosaurs" (1996), illustrated by Michael Rothman; "The Dino Quiz Book" (1995), illustrated by Nate Evans; "Let's Go Dinosaur Tracking!" (1991), illustrated by Kate Duke; and "Discovering Dinosaur Babies" (1991), illustrated by Margaret Colbert. Other works featured elephants, pandas, sea horses. pigeons and squirrels. Two new books, her last: "The Story About Me," and "Little Raccoon's Big Question." She first appeared in print in 1951 with "A Day at the Playground" from Golden Books, where she worked as a secretary. Ms. Schlein received a B.A. in English and psychology from Brooklyn College in 1947 and then held a number of jobs in advertising and publishing. She was in the children's department of Simon & Schuster when she decided that her future lay in writing. She pursued it with a series of books about concepts, illustrated by Leonard Kessler and published by William R. Scott. They included "Shapes" (1952) and "Heavy Is a Hippopotamus." In the 1950's she also wrote some stories about children and animals that won her wide recognition and awards, including "Four Little Foxes," "Elephant Herd," and "When Will the World Be Mine?" about a baby snowshoe rabbit, which The New Yorker called "a poetic book." Some of Ms. Schlein's books were Junior Literary Guild Selections and several of her natural-science titles received Outstanding Science Books for Children awards. "When Will the World Be Mine?" (1953), republished 20 years later as "The Rabbit's World," was named a Caldecott Honor Book. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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Œuvres de Miriam Schlein
Lazy day 3 exemplaires
Little Rabbit the High Jumper 2 exemplaires
Tony's Pony 1 exemplaire
Rabbit`s World, The 1 exemplaire
the bumble bees secret 1 exemplaire
Die Zeit mit dem kleinen Panda. ( Ab 8 J.). 1 exemplaire
Heavy is a Hippopotamus 1 exemplaire
Amuny : boy of old Egypt 1 exemplaire
Something for Now, Something for Later 1 exemplaire
Henry's ride 1 exemplaire
Juju-Sheep and the Python's Moonstone: And Other Moon Stories from Different Times and Different Places (1973) 1 exemplaire
OUR HOLIDAYS 1 exemplaire
Our Holiday Series 1 exemplaire
On the Track of the Mystery Animal 1 exemplaire
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- Date de naissance
- 1926-06-06
- Date de décès
- 2004-11-23
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu du décès
- Manhattan, New York, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- New York, New York, USA
- Professions
- children's book author
- Relations
- Weiss, Harvey (husband - divorced)
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More Than One par Miriam Schlein
EducatingParents.org rating: Approved
Children's chapter book with a nice lesson on sharing, and it involves a snake. I'll have to read it to my grandkids.
I saw this book on top of a stack of juvenile non-fictions at work and had to read it. I freaking love pandas. It was a cute, short read, and the pictures are nice (and isn't the main pull of these the pictures, honestly?), although reading about how they struggle to eat sometimes when the bamboo dies out for a year is depressing.
Miriam Schlein describes the history and meaning of the Sukkot festival and the holiday of Simḥat Torah in this slender paperback picture-book. She discusses how the farmers of ancient Israel used booths, or sukkot, while harvesting their crops, and how the modern Jewish custom of building a sukkah for the harvest festival reflects both this, and the huts the Israelites used when they were wandering in the wilderness. Next she discusses how Simḥat Torah comes at the end of Sukkot, and marks the point in the Jewish calendar at which the reading through of the Torah concludes, only to begin again...
Published in 1983, Sukkot and Simḥat Torah is one of a number of slender little books about the Jewish holidays - Hanukkah, Passover, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, Shavuot - that Schlein published with Behrman House. It is informative, rather than story-based, and is paired with colorful artwork, done in a cute cartoon style, from Amye Rosenberg. Because it offers a basic, factual overview of the two eponymous holidays, I think this would make a good introduction to the subject, both for Jewish children and for Non-Jewish children not already familiar with Sukkot and Simḥat Torah.… (plus d'informations)
Published in 1983, Sukkot and Simḥat Torah is one of a number of slender little books about the Jewish holidays - Hanukkah, Passover, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, Shavuot - that Schlein published with Behrman House. It is informative, rather than story-based, and is paired with colorful artwork, done in a cute cartoon style, from Amye Rosenberg. Because it offers a basic, factual overview of the two eponymous holidays, I think this would make a good introduction to the subject, both for Jewish children and for Non-Jewish children not already familiar with Sukkot and Simḥat Torah.… (plus d'informations)
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- Œuvres
- 106
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- 2
- Membres
- 3,506
- Popularité
- #7,253
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 55
- ISBN
- 142
- Langues
- 1