Okay I like to do things in order but I also like to get things done!

Story and Pictures by Clare Turlay Newberry

Bio from: http://www.childrensliteraturenetwork.com/birthbios/brthpage/04apr/4-10newberry.html

Clare Turlay Newberry was born on April 10, 1903, in Enterprise, Oregon. She studied art at the University of Oregon, the California School of Fine Arts, and at La Grand Chaumiere in Paris, France. She focused on portrait painting but, in 1931, she wrote and illustrated her first book for children, Herbert the Lion. Ms. Newberry died in 1970 in San Diego, California.

Book Summary

                 A young girl, April, has a cat who ends up having three kittens.  The story is her adventure of watching them grow up and then move out.  It is kind of sad.  Thru the entire book her father says, they live in a one kitten apartment.  Thank goodness by the end there is a happy ending!

Illustrations: As before in 1939 for Barkis, the illustrations are very similar. Should be same person doing them!  They are soft and realistic!  They are gentle and magical.  After doing some research I have discovered that Ms. Newberry was very well known for her art work with cats.  She adored animals, cats the most.  The gently touch of water color adds the soft touch, making me just want to scoop up Barkis and Edward and squeeze them!

Art Medium: She primarily worked in watercolor and Conte crayon on velour pastel paper. Her children and pets were her inspiration for her animal books, many of which are in print today. April’s Kittens, Marshmallow, and T-Bone were all Caldecott Honor books. She was praised by critics for "instilling in children a compassion and sense of responsibility for animals."

Another reason to visit the University of Oregon: More art to look at!  This is the second illustrator to have original art work kept at this location, Wanda Gag was the other.  I loved her art work as well.

Guide to Clare Turlay Newberry Papers

1910-1969

Creator:	Newberry, Clare Turlay, 1903-
Title:	Clare Turlay Newberry Papers
Dates:	1910-1969 ( inclusive )
Quantity:	.25 linear feet (1 container)
Collection Number:	Ax 681
Summary:	Collection comprises literary manuscripts and book illustrations by American artist Clare Newberry, including 242 original drawings, sketches and illustrations; three book dummies; and scrapbooks from childhood and early school days.
Repository:	University of Oregon Libraries Special Collections & University Archives 1299 University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403-1299 USA URL: http://libweb.uoregon.edu/speccoll/index.html

Final Thoughts:
1. Would this be a book I would pick up again? Maybe
2. Would I recommend it to others to search out and take a look at? If you like cats then this is a good book for you!
3. Would I spend my hard earned money on the book?  Perhaps, if the right price.
More info: 

http://www.cathappy.net/newberry.htm

1941-busy year for America!

1941

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

January

• January 4 – The short subject Elmer's Pet Rabbit is released, marking the second appearance of Bugs Bunny, and also the first to have his name on a title card.
• January 20 – Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes swears in U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt for his third term.

February

• February 4 – WWII: The United Service Organization (USO) is created to entertain American troops.
• February 9 – Winston Churchill, in a worldwide broadcast, tells the United States to show its support by sending arms to the British: "Give us the tools, and we will finish the job."

March

• March 1 -W47NV begins operations in Nashville, Tennessee, becoming the first FM radio station.
• March 8 – WWII: The U.S. Senate passes the Lend-Lease Act (60–31).
• March 11 – WWII: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law.
• March 22 – Washington's Grand Coulee Dam begins to generate electricity.
• March 27 - WWII – Attack on Pearl Harbor: Empire of Japanese spy Takeo Yoshikawa arrives in Honolulu, Hawaii and begins to study the Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor.
• March 30
• All German, Italian, and Danish ships anchored in United States waters are taken into "protective custody".
• German Lorenz code machine operator sent a 4,000 character message twice, allowing British mathematician Bill Tutte to decipher the machine's coding mechanism.^[3]

May

• May 1
• The breakfast cereal Cheerios is introduced as CheeriOats by General Mills.
• The first Defense Bonds and Defense Savings Stamps go on sale in the United States, to help fund the greatly increased production of military equipment.
• May 6 – At California's March Field, entertainer Bob Hope performs his first USO Show.
• May 9 – WWII: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the British Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma cryptography machine, which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages.
• May 12 – Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin.
• May 15
• Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak begins as the New York Yankee center fielder goes one for 4 against Chicago White Sox Pitcher Eddie Smith.
• May 27
• WWII: President Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency."
• WWII:Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic, killing 2,300.

July

• July – The British Army's Special Air Service is formed.
• July 3 – WWII: Joseph Stalin, in his first address since the German invasion, calls upon the Soviet people to carry out a "scorched earth" policy of resistance to the bitter end.
• July 4 – The Mass murder of Polish scientists and writers is committed by German troops in the captured Polish city of Lwów.
• July 17 – Joe DiMaggio's 56 game hitting streak ends.
• July 19
• The first episode The Midnight Snack in which Tom and Jerry are officially named, more than a year after their first production Puss Gets the Boot.
• July 26 -WWII: In response to the Japanese occupation of French Indo-China, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the seizure of all Japanese assets in the United States.

August

• August 18 – Adolf Hitler orders a temporary halt to Nazi Germany's systematic euthanasia of the mentally ill and handicapped due to protests. However, graduates of the T-4 Euthanasia Program are then transferred to concentration camps, where they continue in their trade.

September

• September 6 – Holocaust: The requirement to wear the Star of David with the word "Jew" inscribed, is extended to all Jews over the age of 6 in German-occupied areas.
• September 14 – The State of Vermont declares war on Germany.
• September 29–September 30 – Holocaust: Babi Yar massacre – German troops, assisted by Ukrainian police and local collaborators, killed 33,771 Jews of Kiev, Ukraine.

October

• October 1 – Holocaust: the Nazi German extermination camp Konzentrationslager Lublin (commonly known as "Majdanek") opens in occupied Poland on the outskirts of the town Lublin. Between October 1941 and July 1944 at least 200,000 people were killed in the camp.
• October 11–October 12 – Fire destroys a Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. plant in Fall River, Massachusetts, consuming 15,850 tons of rubber and causing a setback to the United States war effort.^[4]
• October 17 – WWII: The destroyer USS Kearny is torpedoed and damaged near Iceland, killing 11 sailors (the first American military casualties of the war).
• October 23 – Walt Disney's animated film Dumbo is released.
• October 31 - Last day of carving on Mount Rushmore.

November

• November 17 – WWII – Attack on Pearl Harbor: Joseph Grew, the United States ambassador to Japan, cables to Washington a warning that Japan may strike suddenly and unexpectedly at any time.
• November 26 – WWII – Attack on Pearl Harbor: A fleet of 6 aircraft carriers commanded by Japanese Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo leaves Hitokapu Bay for Pearl Harbor under strict radio silence

December

December 2 – WWII – Attack on Pearl Harbor: The code message "Climb Mount Niitaka" is transmitted to the Japanese task force, indicating that negotiations have broken down and that the attack is to be carried out according to plan.

• December 7
• (December 8, Japan standard time) – The Japanese Navy launches a surprise attack on the United States fleet at Pearl Harbor, thus drawing the United States into WWII. The attack is announced on radio stations in the US at about 2:26 p.m. EST (19.26 GMT).
• December 8
• WWII: The United States, United Kingdom, China and The Netherlands officially declare war on the Empire of Japan.
• President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Infamy" Address to a Joint Session of Congress at 12:30 p.m. EST (17.30 GMT) and transmitted live over all four major national networks attracts the largest audience ever for an American radio broadcast, over 81% of homes.^[7]
• Holocaust: the Nazi German extermination camp Chelmno opens in occupied Poland near a small village called Chełmno nad Nerem. Between December 1941-April 1943 and June 1944-January 1945 at least 153,000 people were killed in the camp.
• December 12
• WWII: Hungary and Romania declare war on the United States.
• WWII: British India declares war on Empire of Japan.
• WWII: The United States seizes the French ship SS Normandie.
• WWII: The Kimura Detachment of the Japanese Imperial forces is occupied in Legaspi, Albay in Eastern Philippines.
• December 19 – WWII: Hitler becomes Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the German Army.

I'm still here!

Hello fans!  I wanted to share with you that I have not forgotten about my adventure.  I am waiting for thef  1940 Winner, I have it reserved at the Library.  I have been reading ahead and may post a few tomorrow as time alows.  I just hate doing things out of order,  he he.  So tell me have you been reading anything?  I am also trying to read The Big Burn by timothy Eagan.  No not a childrens book.  It is the book that Pierce County selected as a county wide book club!  Let me know if you are also reading this book!

The Ageless Story--------Tradition with a Big Twist!!!

The Ageless Story

By Lauren Ford

1940 Caldecott Honor Winner

Bio from: http://campus.udayton.edu/mary/resources/poetry/xmasp.html

Lauren Ford was born in New York City in 1891. Her mother was Julia Ellsworth Ford, "the author of many books and plays for children." Her father was Simeon Ford, owner of the Grand Union Hotel, a man of famous wit, and a popular public speaker. According to Julia Ford, Lauren began to draw at age four. Lauren studied art with George Bridgman and Frank V. du Mond. In 1973, Lauren Ford passed away at the age of eighty-two. During her life, Ford painted many works of a religious nature.

During her life, Ford published three books: Our Lady's Book, The Ageless Story, and Lauren Ford's Christmas Book. In each of these books, Ford combined her artwork with her own lyric prose to interpret the Marian aspects of the Bible and the Christian tradition.

Book Summary

                This is a religious book about “The Ageless Story.”  I had to ask myself, what is the ageless story?  Then once I opened the book I got it!  Do you know what the Ageless Story is?  If you are at all religious I think you do!  Take guess let me know what you think.

The interesting fact about this book is the setting.  It takes the characters from the Ageless Story and sets them in modern Connecticut Countryside.  Very interesting to think about.  It also shows the Main Character growing up.  Something that is not depicted often.  Again do you know the story? 

Illustrations:  These illustrations really make the book for me.  Because most of the book is in a different language/form, not sure what to call it, Gregorian Chant is what the book calls it.  The chants, along with the music, is on the left hand side and then there are pictures on the right side.  There is a border around the entire page on both sides.  In the border there is Gold!  Well it looks as if it is gold, shiny and everything.  I can totally see how this book won this honor.  Take a look, but finding a copy is going to be the challenge.  I got the Pierce County Library to get a copy of the book from me, it came from Gellert Library St. Patrick’s Seminary in California.  When I looked on Amazon for this book the price was over $150.00.  So yes I think this book is stunning! Not only because of the price but Lauren Ford took a mix of something so strong and traditional (the chants) and put them with modern depictions of Characters we all know.  Why am I not telling you?  I want to you seek the answer.

Art Medium: “Lauren Ford was a painter, etcher and writer/illustrator of children's books whose subjects were children and Christian themes in present-day settings. She often used her farm in Connecticut as the background of her paintings. "The Little Book About God," 1934, and "The Ageless Story," 1939, are two of her books for children. "Life" magazine published her paintings of religious scenes and Christ's boyhood in 1938 and 1944 in their Christmas issues.”  From http://www.askart.com/askart/f/lauren_miss_ford/lauren_miss_ford.aspx

Final Thoughts:
1. Would this be a book I would pick up again?  Perhaps
2. Would I recommend it to others to search out and take a look at?  Yes, but it will be a challenge!!!  Remember I had to get the Library to borrow it for me.
3. Would I spend my hard earned money on the book?  No, it costs to much for me!

A Classic! Madeline!!!!!!

Madeline

By Ludwig Bemelmans

Bio from: http://www.madeline.com/

Ludwig Bemelmans was born on April 27, 1898 and died on October 1, 1962. He was an essayist, humorist, novelist, artist and an author of books for children.

He was born in the Austrian Tyrol and moved to the United States in 1914. When he arrived in the United States he worked in the hotel industry. But when the United States entered World War I, Bemelmans enlisted in the United States Army. He became a United States citizen in 1918, and after the war he returned to the hotel business.

It was at the suggestion of May Massee, a children's book editor for Viking Press, that Bemelmans wrote his first children's book, Hansi. Hansi was the first of Bemelmans' fifteen children's books. It was very well received by most reviewers. But it was Madeline, which brought Bemelmans his greatest success.

From the time of his marriage to Madeline Freund in 1935 (they had one daughter, Barbara...whom the Madeline character is modeled after) until his death in New York of pancreatic cancer, Bemelmans wrote approximately one or two books a year. .

Although Bemelmans became famous for his Madeline books, he always considered himself more an artist illustrator than a writer, and later in life he became a serious painter with works now on display in the Metropolitan Museum in New York and the Museé National d'Art of Paris.

That isn't to say he did not take his writing seriously, for he was careful never to insult his young audience. "We are writing for children, but not for idiots," he once stated. 

Book Summary

                In the story Madeline the main character is a small, brave little girl names Madeline.  The story takes place in France.  Madeline gets sick in the middle of the night and is taken to the hospital.  At the hospital they take her appendicitis out and she is then visited by the 11 other girls whom she lives with.  By the end of the story Madeline is doing much better and the 11 other girls who were jealous of the attention pretend that they are now sick.

Personal Reaction to story: Darling!  I enjoyed it.  It was a quick read and would be great for any young girl who may have to visit the hospital.

Illustrations:  The illustrations are set in large rectangular squares.  The meaning of this?  Not sure?  Could it be that we are looking thru a window to see bits and part of Madelines Life?  Could it be that We have a little girl who loves to push the boundaries and do things outside of the box so the illustrator has tried to put her inside the box?  Just not sure.  Makes you think.  Once you are inside the pictures we see popular sites associated with France.  They are soft and delicate with a bit of whimsy.  There are some pictures in full color and others with a yellow background and black details.  There is not a pattern that I can see to tell when the pictures will be colored or yellow.  I enjoyed the book and the pictures.  I do think the pictures are stronger than the text.

Art Medium: not sure

Final Thoughts:
1. Would this be a book I would pick up again?  Yes!
2. Would I recommend it to others to search out and take a look at?  Yes
3. Would I spend my hard earned money on the book?  Yes
Want more information?  Here you go!
http://www.madeline.com/

1940 A year full of War and Cartoons!

1940

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Year 1940 was a leap year and started on a Monday.

 January

• January 8 – WWII: Food rationing begins in Great Britain.

February

• February 7 – RKO release Walt Disney's second full-length animated film, Pinocchio.
• February 10 – Tom and Jerry make their debut in Puss Gets the Boot. However it is not until 1941 that their current names are adopted.

 March

• March 2 – Cartoon character Elmer Fudd makes his debut in the animated short Elmer's Candid Camera.
• March 31 – WWII: Commerce raiding hilfskreuzer Atlantis, leaves the Wadden Sea for what will become the longest warship cruise of the war. (622 days without in-port replenishment or repair)^[1]

April

• April 7 – Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.

 May

• May 10 – WWII:
• Battle of France begins – German forces invade Low Countries.
• Iceland is invaded by the United Kingdom.
• With the resignation of Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

May 13 – Winston Churchill, in his first address as Prime Minister, tells the House of Commons, "I have nothing to offer you but blood, toil, tears, and sweat."

• May 15 – The very first McDonald's restaurant opens in San Bernardino, California.
• May 16 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, addressing a joint session of Congress, asks for an extraordinary credit of approximately $900 million to finance construction of at least 50,000 airplanes per year.
• May 20 – Holocaust: The Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and death camp opens in Poland.

June

• June 3 – The Holocaust: Franz Rademacher proposes the Madagascar Plan.
• June 4 – WWII: Winston Churchill tells the British House of Commons, "We shall not flag or fail. We shall fight on the beaches... on the landing grounds... in the fields and the streets.... We shall never surrender."
• June 10 – WWII: Italy declares war on France and the United Kingdom.
• June 10 – WWII: Canada declares war on Italy.
• June 10 – WWII: Norway surrenders to German forces.
• June 13 – WWII: Paris is declared an open city.
• June 14 – WWII: The French government flees to Bordeaux and Paris falls under German occupation.
• June 14 – WWII: A group of 728 Polish political prisoners from Tarnów become the first residents of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

July

• July 1 – The first Tacoma Narrows Bridge opens for business, built with an 8-foot (2.4 m) girder and 190 feet (58 m) above the water, as the third longest suspension bridge in the world.
• July 10 – WWII: The Battle of Britain begins
• July 14 – WWII: Winston Churchill, in a worldwide broadcast, proclaims the intention of Great Britain to fight alone against Germany whatever the outcome: "We shall seek no terms. We shall tolerate no parley. We may show mercy. We shall ask none."
• July 27 – Bugs Bunny makes his debut in the Oscar-nominated cartoon short, A Wild Hare.

August

• August 24 – Howard Florey and a team including Ernst Chain and Norman Heatley at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, publish their laboratory results showing the in vivo bactericidal action of penicillin. They have also purified the drug.^[4][5]

 September

• September 2 – WWII: An agreement between America and Great Britain is announced to the effect that 50 U.S. destroyers needed for escort work will be transferred to Great Britain. In return, America gains 99-year leases on British bases in the North Atlantic, West Indies and Bermuda.
• September 7 – WWII: The Blitz – Nazi Germany begins to rain bombs on London (the first of 57 consecutive nights of strategic bombing).
• September 12 – In Lascaux, France, 17,000-year-old cave paintings are discovered by a group of young Frenchmen hiking through Southern France. The paintings depict animals and date to the Stone Age.

 October

• October 9 - John Lennon is born.
• October 16 – The draft registration of approximately 16 million men begins in the United States.

 November

• November 5 – United States presidential election, 1940: Democrat incumbent Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats Republican challenger Wendell Willkie and becomes the United States' first and only third-term president.
• November 7 – In Tacoma, Washington, the 600-foot (180 m)-long center span of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge (known as Galloping Gertie) collapses.
• November 11 – Armistice Day Blizzard: An unexpected blizzard kills 144 in the Midwestern United States.
• November 13 – Walt Disney's Fantasia is released. It is the first box office failure for Disney, though it eventually recoups its cost years later, and becomes one of the most highly regarded of Disney's films.

 December

• December 8 – The Chicago Bears, in what will become the most one-sided victory in National Football League history, defeat the Washington Redskins 73–0 in the 1940 NFL Championship Game.
• December 14 – Plutonium is first isolated chemically in the laboratory.
• December 17 – President Roosevelt, at his regular press conference, first sets forth the outline of his plan to send aid to Great Britain that will become known as Lend-Lease.
• December 24 – Mahatma Gandhi, Indian spiritual non-violence leader writes his second letter to Adolf Hitler addressing him "My friend", requesting him to stop the war Germany had begun.
• December 29 – Franklin D. Roosevelt, in a fireside chat to the nation, declares that the United States must become "the great arsenal of democracy."
• December 29 – WWII: "Second Great Fire of London" – Luftwaffe carries out a massive incendiary bombing raid, starting 1,500 fires. Many famous buildings, including the Guildhall and Trinity House, are either damaged or destroyed.
• December 30 – California's first modern freeway, the future State Route 110, opens to traffic in Pasadena, California, as the Arroyo Seco Parkway (now the Pasadena Freeway).