Elisabeth Wenning (1908–1994)
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- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Goepp, Elisabeth Wenning
- Andere Namen
- Meg, Elisabeth (pseudonym)
- Geburtstag
- 1908-06-18
- Todestag
- 1994-05-23
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- USA
- Beziehungen
- Sanders, Margaret Webb (co-author)
- Kurzbiographie
- Elisabeth Wenning Goepp wrote three books with her co-author Margaret Webb Sanders, under the pseudonym "Elisabeth Meg," as well as a picture book and a Library of Congress report on children's literature under her own name.
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- 7
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- #214,931
- Bewertung
- 4.5
- Rezensionen
- 2
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- 1
There are a number of picture books about the composition of this most beloved Christmas song, including Margaret Hodges and Tim Ladwig's Silent Night: The Song and Its Story, as well as Maureen Brett Hooper and Kasi Kubiak's Silent Night: A Christmas Carol Is Born, but this engaging volume from author Elisabeth Wenning and illustrator Barbare Remington presents a fresh and appealing version of the well-known tale! Kaspar was such an appealing little hero, and Wenning did an excellent job capturing the ups and downs of his emotional state, throughout the story, as well as his sincere devotion to his church home and the man who ran it. The accompanying artwork from Remington (a relation of the famous painter of the American West, Frederic Remington) is charming, done in an old-fashioned style, with engraving-style black ink drawings enlivened by a limited range of color embellishments. Oddly, I was just reviewing a book where I said I didn't care for this style, but having found the visuals here delightful, I think it must just have been the illustrator of that other book I didn't care for.
However that might be, I found The Christmas Mouse an immensely appealing book, from both an illustrative and textual perspective. It's very text-heavy for a picture book—almost an illustrated short story—so I'd recommend it to picture book audiences with a good attention span, who are looking for engaging Christmas stories, stories about the composition of Silent Night, or stories featuring mouse characters.… (mehr)