Calico Jungle by Dahlov Ipcar

Calico Jungle by Dahlov Ipcar

A mother gives her little boy a handmade quilt, but it's more than just a quilt. It's a whole world where fantastical animals run, hide, swim, and frolic in a calico jungle. The boy enters this wild landscape and travels through it. He spies calico birds pecking at fruits, sees calico elephants giving each other shower baths, discovers spotted horses, striped lions, and calico fish shining like jewels. As he nears the far side of the quilt, the animals he encounters are curled up asleep. The boy grows sleepy, too. His eyes close and he dreams that he is walking through the calico jungle, under the flowering trees, where all the strange and wonderful animals lived. This marvelous book by renowned artist and illustrator Dahlov Ipcar will spark every child's imagination, inspire them to question what is real, and invite them to explore a world full of color and possibility.

Born in Vermont in 1917, Dahlov Zorach was raised in New York City by her parents, the famed sculptor William Zorach and artist Marguerite Zorach. The family spent summers at their 1820s farmhouse in Georgetown, Maine, where she met Adolph Ipcar. She and Adolph married in 1936 and the following year, they moved permanently to Maine, where she has farmed, painted, and worked on writing and illustrating books ever since. Today, Ipcar's intricate, vibrant, and fanciful artwork is known worldwide, and her paintings are in the permanent collections of numerous renowned museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Her unique and distinctly modern style has helped change the role of artwork in children's literature. Her stories are often about the pleasures of a simple life and the power of the imagination. In her long and illustrious career, Ipcar has written more than 30 children's books, including The Little Fisherman, (written by Margaret Wise Brown, ) The Cat at Night, My Wonderful Christmas Tree, and One Horse Farm, The Calico Jungle, and three board books including Dahlov Ipcar's Maine Alphabet. Her work has earned her the prestigious Kerlan Award in Children's Literature in 1998; the Katahdin Award (a lifetime achievement award given by the Maine Library Association) in 2001; and the New England Independent Booksellers Association President's Award in 2010. In 2012, the artist was awarded the Maine in America Award from the Farnsworth Museum of Art for her outstanding contribution to Maine's role in American art.

SKU	Nicht verfügbar
ISBN 13	9781934031315
ISBN 10	1934031313
Titel	Calico Jungle
Autor	Dahlov Ipcar
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Islandport Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2010-01-01
Seitenanzahl	42
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.