Jack Kent (1920–1985)
Autor(a) de There's No Such Thing as a Dragon
About the Author
Jack Kent was born in 1920 in Burlington, Iowa. He left high school at the age of 15 and began a career as a freelance commercial artist. His first nationally recognized work was King Aroo whcih was syndicated and distributed from 1950-1965. The early comic strips were collected in a 192 page book, mostrar mais King Aroo, published in 1953. Jack Kent wrote and drew the 1968 syndicated Christmas cominstrip, Why Christmas Almost Wasn't. Jack Kent and his wife named their home on the banks of the San Antonio River King Aroo's Castle. He began writing and illustrating children's books in 1968. Jack Kent's book, Just Only John, received awards from the Chicago Graphics Associates and the Children's Book Clinic. The New York Times named his book Mr. Meebles outstanding picture book of the year for 1970. Some of Jack Kent's more famous works are Silly Goose, The Biggest Shadow in the Zoo and The Caterpillar and The Polliwog. He continued to write and illustrate children's books until his death in 1985 from leukemia. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Image credit: Estate of Jack Kent
Séries
Obras de Jack Kent
Joey Runs Away, Titch, Wilford Gordon McDonald Partridge, Not So Fast Songololo, and more (2006) 2 cópias
Piggy Bank Gonsales 1 exemplar(es)
The Caterpillar an the polliwod 1 exemplar(es)
Drachen gibt es doch gar nichts 1 exemplar(es)
D'rakon -- Ein Davar Kazeh 1 exemplar(es)
Sextet 1 exemplar(es)
Blister Book 1 exemplar(es)
Wie, wat waar, wat doe je daar? 1 exemplar(es)
THE FAST CAT 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
The Brave Little Tailor (An Easy-to-read Folktale) (1977) — Ilustrador, algumas edições — 184 cópias
How to make Possum's honey bread, Skunk's chocolate sprinkle bread, and Racoon's raisin bread, too (1975) — Ilustrador — 11 cópias
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome de batismo
- Kent, Jack
- Outros nomes
- Kent, John Wellington
- Data de nascimento
- 1920-03-10
- Data de falecimento
- 1985-10-18
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Burlington, Iowa, USA
- Locais de residência
- San Antonio, Texas, USA
- Ocupação
- author
children's book illustrator
cartoonist - Premiações
- Chicago Graphics Award
- Pequena biografia
- King Aroo daily comic strips (1950-1965) and numerous Children's books that he illustrated and/or wrote (1968-1985).
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 59
- Also by
- 21
- Membros
- 4,302
- Popularidade
- #5,836
- Avaliação
- 4.2
- Resenhas
- 76
- ISBNs
- 186
- Idiomas
- 4
- Favorito
- 7