Maurice Sendak’s Ascension to become the Best of the Best in Children’s Picture Book Art During the 20th Century! Few artists manage to change the public expectations of an entire industry the way Maurice Sendak did for children’s picture books and their illustrations. His concepts and artworks were charming, earnest, sentimental, controversial, psychological, operatic, […]
Category Archives: BOOKS & LITERATURE
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By F. Scott Fitzgerald — Retold for ARTS & FOOD® Readers by J. Atkinson In the glittering heat of the Jazz Age, money gleamed like salvation and love was measured in silk and champagne.The Great Gatsby remains America’s most haunting portrait of ambition, beauty, and loss — a novel drenched in luxury and loneliness. Below, […]
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Jul
Jul
THE WIZARD OF OZ (first a synopsis) Audio of this article. A Storm, a Dream, and a Journey A restless young girl, feeling overlooked and misunderstood in her quiet farming life, longs for something more exciting, beyond her surroundings of flat fields and gray skies. One day, a fierce windstorm (a tornado) sweeps her away—literally. […]
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Jul
A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces is one of the most unusual and memorable novels in American literature. It is also a book with a story behind the story. Toole wrote the novel in the early 1960s, but after facing rejection from publishers and growing discouraged, he sadly took his […]