{"id":2940,"date":"2012-08-16T09:15:53","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T13:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doddcenter.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/16\/dr-philip-nela\/"},"modified":"2012-09-13T15:03:55","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T15:03:55","slug":"dr-philip-nela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2012\/08\/16\/dr-philip-nela\/","title":{"rendered":"New Book on Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/div>Dr. Philip Nel<\/a>\u2019s newest work, Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss:\u00a0 How an Unlikely Couple Found Love, Dodged the FBI, and Transformed Children\u2019s Literature<\/em>, has been published by the University Press of Mississippi.\u00a0 This book is the culmination of years of work to bring to light the lives and times of the man who created Harold and the purple crayon <\/em>and the woman who, with Maurice Sendak, created A Hole is to dig.\u00a0 <\/em>Over the course of their marriage and collaborations, they created over 75 books and influenced some of the best in the business, including Chris van Allsburg who thanked Harold and his purple crayon in his Caldecott acceptance speech in 1981.\u00a0 Nel points out that while Krauss and Johnson were \u201cnever quite household names\u2026Their circle of friends and acquaintances included some of the\u00a0 important cultural figures of the twentieth century\u201d (pg.7).\u00a0 This impeccably researched work which literally took Nel a decade to write, is arranged in 28 chapters, with extensive notes, bibliography, index and illustrations, some reprinted from published works and some from the three dozen archives he visited including the Northeast Children\u2019s Literature Collection.\u00a0 In his epilogue, Nel writes, \u201cCrockett Johnson shows us that a crayon can create a world, while Ruth Krauss demonstrates that dreams can be as large as a giant orange carrot.\u00a0 Whenever children and grown-ups seek books that invite them to think and to imagine, they need look no further than Johnson and Krauss.\u00a0 There, they will find a very special house, where holes are to dig, walls are a canvas, and people are artists, drawing paths that take them anywhere they want to go\u201d (pg. 275).<\/p>\n

Congratulations, Dr. Nel, on an exceptional work of scholarship.<\/p>\n

Philip Nel, Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss<\/em> (Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2012).\u00a0 ISBN 978-1-61703-624-8.\u00a0 EBook 978-1-61703-625-5.<\/p>\n

–Terri J. Goldich, Curator, Northeast Children’s Literature Collection<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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