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Mar 12, 2012 · "After Lois won the Newbery Award for Strawberry Girl, children in various communities would send her letters saying, 'Come on out to Arkansas where people p...
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Lois Lenski's Cowboy Small is a charming and illustrative picture book that brings to life the daily adventures of a young cowboy in the American West. The book, characterized by its simple...
Oct 4, 2018 · Our favorite thing about this cute Lois Lenski story is the song at the beginning. We hope that you enjoy it too...sing along! 🚨 #childrensbooks #PolicemanS...
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- World English School Today!
- An Early Aptitude For Art
- The Start of A Prolific Career
- Newbery Medal and Regional Stories
- Reconsideration of Lois Lenski’s Work
- Later Life and The Legacy of Lois Lenski
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As a young girl, Lenski showed an early aptitude for art, and it was in the visual and applied arts in which she pursued an education. After graduating from Ohio State University in 1915, she studied at the Art Students League in New York City on scholarship, followed by the Westminster School of Art in London. While abroad, she spent several month...
Lenski’s first book, Skipping Village, was published in 1927. A Little Girl of 1900 followed, launching her career as an author-illustrator of children’s books. A Little Girl… included stories set in the Ohio town of Lenski’s childhood and conveyed her keen understanding of life in small-town America. Phebe Fairchild, Her Bookwas the first of numer...
In 1946, Lenski won the Newbery Medal for Strawberry Girl, which brought even more attention to her genre of regional books for and about children. Strawberry Girl was preceded by Bayou Suzette, and joined by many others, including Blue Ridge Billy, Boom Town Boy, Coal Camp Girl. Through these books, all of which she illustrated, she took readers o...
In their time, Lenski’s books were considered very innovative, though some critics deemed them a bit grim. Rather than sentimentalizing childhood, they depicted members of working classes and agricultural communities. Librarians and teachers appreciated their gritty realism. The storytelling in these books opened a view into how others lived, creat...
In the 1940s, Lenski grappled with health issues, and her physician recommended avoiding the harsh New England winters. In 1951, Lois Lenski and her husband built a house in Tarpon Springs, Florida, where they spent half of each year. By the late 1950s, she began receiving honorary doctorates from several universities. In 1967, she founded the Lois...
Major Works Regional Stories 1. Corn-Farm Boy 2. Prairie School 3. Bayou Suzette 4. Strawberry Girl 5. Houseboat Girl 6. San Francisco Boy 7. Texas Tomboy 8. Cotton in my Sack 9. Boom Town Boy 10. Coal Camp Girl 11. To be a Logger 12. Mama Hattie’s Girl 13. Prairie School 14. Blue Ridge Billy 15. Judy’s Journey 16. Shoo-Fly Girl 17. Deer Valley Gir...
[ 8] Marriage and family life. On June 8, 1921, immediately after her return from Italy, Lenski married Arthur Covey, a muralist who had been one of her instructors at the School of Industrial Art and for whom she had worked as an assistant on mural projects before she left for London. [ 8] .
In the early 1940s Lenski, who suffered from periodic bouts of ill-health, was told by her doctor that she needed to spend the winter months in a warmer climate than her Connecticut home. As a result, Lenski and her husband Arthur Covey traveled south each fall.
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She met artist (and future husband) Arthur Convey in an illustration class, and used that connection to begin work on several murals. Her efforts eventually paid off, and in 1920, Lenski left the country to study in London and Italy.
