Bibliograph

Lives of the writers, comedies, tragedies (and what the neighbors thought), written by Kathleen Krull ; illustrated by Kathryn Hewitt

Type

Label

Lives of the writers, comedies, tragedies (and what the neighbors thought), written by Kathleen Krull ; illustrated by Kathryn Hewitt

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (page 96) and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Lives of the writers

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

29025194

Responsibility statement

written by Kathleen Krull ; illustrated by Kathryn Hewitt

Sub title

comedies, tragedies (and what the neighbors thought)

Summary

The lives of twenty writers, ranging from Dickens, the Brontes, and Poe to Twain, Sandburg, and Langston Hughes, are profiled in this humorous and informative collection

Table Of Contents

Rice cakes and moonlight : Murasaki Shikibu -- One disaster after another : Miguel de Cervantes -- "Curst be he that moves my bones" : William Shakespeare -- Chocolate for breakfast : Jane Austen -- Ugly duckling or little mermaid? : Hans Christian Andersen -- Imp of the perverse : Edgar Allan Poe -- From raisin pudding to oysters and champagne : Charles Dickens -- Currer and Ellis Bell : Charlotte and Emily Brontë -- Hide-and-seek : Emily Dickinson -- Paddling her own canoe : Louisa May Alcott -- Killingly funny : Mark Twain -- The fairy godmother : Frances Hodgson Burnett -- Into the mountains of the moon : Robert Louis Stevenson -- Cannibal sandwiches : Jack London -- Potato face blind man : Carl Sandburg -- On the farm : E.B. White -- She jumped at the sun : Zora Neale Hurston -- The perfect companion : Langston Hughes -- Blintzes stuffed with cheese : Isaac Bashevis Singer

Target audience

juvenile

Classification

Contributor