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Pass It Down: Five Picture Book Families Make Their Mark (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Pass It DownOur families help shape who we are--what we look like, what we like to eat, even what our strengths and abilities are. So when a parent is a renowned children's book author or illustrator, creative ability may be part of an amazing legacy. Leonard S. Marcus introduces readers to five best-selling and award-winning families with talent that spans the generations. By opening up these family albums--...
Full description- Publisher: Walker & Company
- Published: 01 December 2006
- Format: Hardback 56 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Biography: Literary | Autobiography: Literary
- ISBN 13: 9780802796004 ISBN 10: 0802796001
- Sales rank: 1,071,183
Full description for Pass It Down
Our families help shape who we are--what we look like, what we like to eat, even what our strengths and abilities are. So when a parent is a renowned children's book author or illustrator, creative ability may be part of an amazing legacy. Leonard S. Marcus introduces readers to five best-selling and award-winning families with talent that spans the generations. By opening up these family albums--sharing personal memories, scrapbooks, book dummies, model shots, and final art, Marcus chronicles the way books come into being, the way artists are nurtured and grown, and the way where we come from influences who and what we become. Includes in depth interviews and extensive histories of five famous multi-generational families of children's book creators: Jerry Pinkney and his son Brian PinkneyAnne and Harlow Rockwell and their daughter LizzyDonald Crews and Ann Jonas, and their daughter Nina CrewsWalter Dean Myers and his son Christopher MyersEdith and Clement Hurd and their son Thacher Hurd
