Roger Duvoisin (1900–1980)
Autor(a) de Petunia
About the Author
Roger Duvoisin was born in Geneva, Switzerland on August 28, 1904. Before becoming a children's book illustrator, he designed and painted murals, theatrical scenery, and posters as well as worked in the fashion industry. He immigrated with wife Louise Fatio to the United States in 1925. He created mostrar mais more than 40 books and illustrated more than 140 children's books. He created several animal characters including Petunia the foolish goose, Veronica the hippo, Crocus the crocodile, Jasmine the cow, Donkey-Donkey and Hector-Penguin. He also illustrated the Happy Lion series written by his wife. He received several awards for his works including the Caldecott Award for White Snow Bright Snow written by Alvin Tresselt in 1948 and the Caldecott Honor Award for Hide and Seek Fog also written by Tresselt in 1966. He also received the Society of Illustrators Award, the Rutgers Award, the Silver Medallion of the University of Southern Mississippi and the Kerlan Award from the University of Minnesota. He died on June 30, 1980. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Séries
Obras de Roger Duvoisin
All aboard! 4 cópias
Favorite stories of Roger Duvoisin : including The Crocodile in the Tree, See What I Am, Periwinkle and Snowy and Woody (2016) 3 cópias
Santa's Circus 1 exemplar(es)
Which is the Best Place? 1 exemplar(es)
The First Christmas: A Book of Old Legends 1 exemplar(es)
Columbus Discovers America 1 exemplar(es)
The Fabulous Adventures of an Old-World Traveler Marco Polo 1 exemplar(es)
Around the World to China - Christopher Columbus 1 exemplar(es)
The Spaniards Hunt for Gold - Ponce De Leon and De Soto 1 exemplar(es)
New Yorker cover 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
The 20th-Century Children's Book Treasury: Picture Books and Stories to Read Aloud (1998) — Autor — 1,561 cópias
Mother Goose: A Comprehensive Collection of the Rhymes Made by William Rose Benét (1936) — Ilustrador — 13 cópias
Vavache, The Cow Who Painted Pictures — Ilustrador — 3 cópias
Wait till Sunday — Ilustrador — 2 cópias
The Little Church on the Big Rock — Ilustrador — 1 exemplar(es)
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome de batismo
- Duvoisin, Roger Antoine
- Data de nascimento
- 1900-08-28
- Data de falecimento
- 1980-06-30
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Switzerland
- Local de nascimento
- Geneva, Switzerland
- Local de falecimento
- Morristown, New Jersey, USA
- Locais de residência
- New York, New York, USA
Gladstone, New Jersey, USA - Educação
- École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France
- Ocupação
- children's book author
illustrator - Relacionamentos
- Fatio, Louise (spouse)
Membros
Resenhas
A book that will teach kiddos the meaning of the word "conspicuous." Veronica is a hippopotamus who lives among other hippopotamuses in obscurity. She longs for attention, so she travels to a city fully of people, where she'll stand out. Unfortunately, she also gets in some trouble with the law, so a kind old lady bails her out and sends her back to the other hippopotamuses. But don't be sad for Veronica, her city trip lends her the glamor she desired in the first place.
For forty years I've believed my favorite childhood book was Henny Penny, although all I remembered about it was the color orange and that I loved the duck in it. But I was misremembering which book it was! Today at the bookstore my attention was drawn to my REAL TRUE LOVE favorite book. It was not a duck, it was Petunia, the silly goose! I am so excited to be reunited with my old friend!
Month of January 2022: Young Reader’s Classics
READING LEVEL: 3.1 AR POINTS: 0.5
A super cute children’s book written and published in 1950. This is 1 of 4 books in with my cousin’s (Lancer Woolwine) family photos, which I am currently organizing for their family. So, needless to say, this book stays with the family.
It’s about a goose, Petunia, who finds a book and believes that by simply carrying it around will make her appear to be the smartest animal on the farm. Her neck gets longer and higher as the other animals begin to believe it as well. They ask Petunia's help for various problems that don’t end well. The worst disaster was when Petunia misread a box labeled dynamite, and because she really didn’t know how to read, she told them it was CANDY.
Cute! Teaches the importance of learning to read.… (mais)
READING LEVEL: 3.1 AR POINTS: 0.5
A super cute children’s book written and published in 1950. This is 1 of 4 books in with my cousin’s (Lancer Woolwine) family photos, which I am currently organizing for their family. So, needless to say, this book stays with the family.
It’s about a goose, Petunia, who finds a book and believes that by simply carrying it around will make her appear to be the smartest animal on the farm. Her neck gets longer and higher as the other animals begin to believe it as well. They ask Petunia's help for various problems that don’t end well. The worst disaster was when Petunia misread a box labeled dynamite, and because she really didn’t know how to read, she told them it was CANDY.
Cute! Teaches the importance of learning to read.… (mais)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 56
- Also by
- 63
- Membros
- 3,312
- Popularidade
- #7,725
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Resenhas
- 52
- ISBNs
- 152
- Idiomas
- 8
- Favorito
- 1
Petunia really is a silly goose - and I think it's so hilarious that the animals ate the firecrackers because she said they were candies. I know this book focuses more on Petunia realizing that "it was not enough to carry wisdom under my wing. I must put it in my mind and in my heart." Plus, the ode to how reading truly does better our loves. But I also think that this book teaches us an important lesson to be wary of those who think too highly of themselves. They're overconfident and know-it-all attitudes are usually overcompensating for something they lack...… (mais)