Eric Carle is acclaimed and beloved as the
creator of brilliantly illustrated and innovatively designed
picture books for very young children. His best-known work,The
Very Hungry Caterpillar,
has eaten its way into the hearts of literally millions of
children all over the world and has been translated into more
than 50 languages and sold over 33 million copies.Visit
his official website
"OH, THE PLACES YOU'LL GO!
THERE IS FUN TO BE DONE! THERE ARE
POINTS TO BE SCORED. THERE ARE GAMES TO BE WON."
From: Oh, The Places You'll Go!
A bit of history
Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known to the world
as the beloved Dr. Seuss, was born in 1904 on
Howard Street in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Ted's father, Theodor Robert, and grandfather
were brewmasters in the city. His mother,
Henrietta Seuss Geisel, often soothed her
children to sleep by "chanting" rhymes
remembered from her youth. Ted credited his
mother with both his ability and desire to
create the rhymes for which he became so well
known.
To please his father, who wanted him to be a
college professor, Ted went on to Oxford
University in England after graduation. However,
his academic studies bored him, and he decided
to tour Europe instead. Oxford did provide him
the opportunity to meet a classmate, Helen
Palmer, who not only became his first wife, but
also a children's author and book editor.
After returning to the United States, Ted began
to pursue a career as a cartoonist. The
Saturday Evening Post and other publications
published some of his early pieces, but the bulk
of Ted's activity during his early career was
devoted to creating advertising campaigns for
Standard Oil, which he did for more than 15
years.
As World War II approached, Ted's focus shifted,
and he began contributing weekly political
cartoons to PM magazine, a liberal
publication. Too old for the draft, but wanting
to contribute to the war effort, Ted served with
Frank Capra's Signal Corps (U.S. Army) making
training movies. It was here that he was
introduced to the art of animation and developed
a series of animated training films featuring a
trainee called Private Snafu. The Cat in the Hat, perhaps the defining
book of Ted's career, developed as part of a
unique joint venture between Houghton Mifflin
(Vanguard Press) and Random House. Houghton
Mifflin asked Ted to write and illustrate a
children's primer using only 225 "new-reader"
vocabulary words. Because he was under contract
to Random House, Random House obtained the trade
publication rights, and Houghton Mifflin kept
the school rights. With the release of The
Cat in the Hat, Ted became the definitive
children's book author and illustrator.
At the time of his death on September 24, 1991,
Ted had written and illustrated 44 children's
books, including such all-time favorites as
Green Eggs and Ham, Oh, the Places You'll Go,
Fox in Socks, and How the Grinch Stole
Christmas. His books had been translated
into more than 15 languages. Over 200 million
copies had found their way into homes and hearts
around the world.
Besides the books, his works have provided the
source for eleven children's television
specials, a Broadway musical and a
feature-length motion picture. Other major
motion pictures are on the way.
His honors included two Academy awards, two Emmy
awards, a Peabody award and the Pulitzer Prize.
With over thirty six million
books in print, Jan Brett is one of the nation's
foremost author illustrators of children's books.
Jan lives in a seacoast town in Massachusetts,
close to where she grew up. During the summer
her family moves to a home in the Berkshire
Hills of Massachusetts.
Many
common sayings come from Aesops Fables like "Honesty is the best policy,"
and "Look before you leap" are familiar examples of fables.
Aesop is believed to have been a Greek slave who made up
these stories
in the
6th century BC. He gained a great reputation as a teller of animal
fables. Through these many fables, Aesop showed the wise and foolish
behavior of men, and taught a lesson in the form of a moral. Not
much is known about the life of Aesop. It is believed Aesop was born
in Thrace, Greece, as a slave. It is said that his wisdom so
delighted one of his masters that the slave was given his freedom.
According to one tradition, Aesop lived for a while as a slave on
the island of Samos, after being freed he traveled widely, then was
murdered while visiting Delphi.
There are no records that
Aesop ever wrote down his fables or published them. His fables were
not meant to entertain children. He told them as moral lessons for
adults, who in turn passed them on to others. Not until 200 years
after his death did the first written collection of fables appear.
Aesop's fables later served as an inspiration for the writings of
Jean de La Fontaine, a 17th-century French writer. Since then
Aesop's Fables have been translated into almost every language in
the world.
Hans Christian Andersen
referred to using the initials H. C. Andersen in
Denmark; April 2, 1805 – August 4, 1875) was a
Danish author and poet noted for his children's
stories. These include "The Snow Queen", "The
Little Mermaid", "Thumbelina",
During his lifetime he was acclaimed for
having delighted children worldwide, and was
feted by royalty. His poetry and stories have
been translated into more than 150 languages.
They have inspired motion pictures, plays,
ballets, and animated films.
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