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About the Author

Diane Stanley was born in 1943 and was raised in Abilene, Texas. She later attended both Trinity University and Johns Hopkins University. Her portfolio of children's book illustrations was creative enough for her to begin publication in 1978. She became an art director for G.P. Putnam & Sons and mostrar mais later began retelling and illustrating classic children's books. Stanley has revamped the fairy tale, Rumpelstiltskin's Daughter and has also researched the children's biographies Cleopatra and Leonardo Da Vinci. She also illustrated her mother's book, The Last Princess. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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(eng) Diane Stanley and Diana Stanley are not the same person. Please don't combine them. Thanks.

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Obras de Diane Stanley

Bard of Avon: The Story of William Shakespeare (1992) — Ilustrador — 1,368 cópias
Joan of Arc (1998) 1,253 cópias
Michelangelo (2000) 1,189 cópias
Cleopatra (1994) 1,111 cópias
Peter the Great (1986) 995 cópias
Bella at Midnight (2006) 630 cópias
Rumpelstiltskin's Daughter (1997) 461 cópias
Goldie and the Three Bears (2003) 280 cópias
Shaka, King of the Zulus (1988) 230 cópias
Saving Sweetness (1996) 228 cópias
The Silver Bowl (2011) 227 cópias
Saladin: Noble Prince of Islam (2002) 209 cópias
The Good Luck Pencil (1750) 184 cópias
Raising Sweetness (1999) 138 cópias
Joining the Boston Tea Party (2001) 124 cópias
A Time Apart (1830) 122 cópias
The Conversation Club (1983) 109 cópias
The Giant and the Beanstalk (2004) 96 cópias
Saving Sky (2010) 96 cópias
Fortune (1810) 75 cópias
The Cup and the Crown (2012) 71 cópias
The Trouble with Wishes (2007) 71 cópias
Woe Is Moe (1995) 62 cópias
Joplin, Wishing (2017) 60 cópias
The Princess of Cortova (2013) 59 cópias
Elena (1800) 45 cópias
The Chosen Prince (2015) 43 cópias
Captain Whiz-Bang (1987) 31 cópias
A Country Tale (1880) 17 cópias
Fiddle-i-fee: A traditional American chant (1979) — Ilustrador — 15 cópias
Second Sleep (2021) 12 cópias
Resist! Peaceful Acts That Changed Our World (2020) — Autor — 10 cópias
Siegfried (1991) 6 cópias
The Yale Shakespeare 1 exemplar(es)
All Wet! All Wet! 1 exemplar(es)

Associated Works

Sleeping Ugly (1981) — Ilustrador — 711 cópias
Petrosinella (1891) — Ilustrador — 117 cópias
The Month-Brothers: A Slavic Tale (1968) — Ilustrador, algumas edições50 cópias
The Man Whose Name Was Not Thomas (1981) — Ilustrador — 14 cópias
Half-A-Ball-Of-Kenki: An Ashanti Tale (1979) — Ilustrador — 12 cópias
Onions, Onions (1981) — Ilustrador — 6 cópias

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Conhecimento Comum

Nome padrão
Stanley, Diane
Outros nomes
STANLEY, Diane Zuromskis
STANLEY, Diane
Data de nascimento
1943-12-27
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
USA
Local de nascimento
Abilene, Texas, USA
Locais de residência
Abilene, Texas, USA
New York, New York, USA
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Educação
Trinity University (BA|1965)
Johns Hopkins University (MA|1970)
Edinburgh College of Art
Ocupação
Children's Book Author
Children's Book Illustrator
Medical Illustrator
Art Director
graphic designer
Relacionamentos
Stanley, Fay (mother)
Vennema, Peter (husband)
Organizações
Dell Publishing
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Coward, McCann & Geoghegan
Premiações
Orbis Pictus Award (1992)
Boston Globe - Horn Book Award (1997)
Golden Kite Award (1987)
Children's Choice Award (1979)
Agente
Sheldon Fogelman Agency
Pequena biografia
Diane Stanley is an American children's author and illustrator, a former medical illustrator, and a former art director for the publisher G.P. Putnam's Sons. Born in 1943 in Abilene, Texas, she was educated at Trinity University (in San Antonio, TX) and at Johns Hopkins University. She is perhaps best known for her many picture-book biographies, some of which were co-authored by her husband, Peter Vennema. (source: Wikipedia)
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Diane Stanley and Diana Stanley are not the same person. Please don't combine them. Thanks.

Membros

Resenhas

Feels like two separate books. The first is about Joplin. The end of the book the focus shifts.

Enjoyed reading.
 
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Sunstroke | 1 outra resenha | Feb 17, 2024 |
I didn't know anything about this book when I started reading it (except that I like the author). It starts off contemporary realistic. There's a girl named Joplin who lives in New York City. Her famous eccentric grandfather has just died and she's being bullied about it at school (seriously, her classmates are so cruel). Joplin inherits her grandfather's broken antique painted pottery. It turns out to have magical properties and presents a mystery for Joplin to untangle.

Honestly, this is the kind of book I could probably take apart if I felt like it (the magic seemed to have a lot of holes in it and the heroes were impossibly precocious 12-year-olds) but I just enjoyed it. Joplin has a strained relationship with her single mother and her ache to feel close to her mom was palpable. When it came time to solve the problem presented by the magic delftware, it was worked out logically in a satisfying way.

This has a kind of fairy tale quality, but it's hard to explain without giving away the plot. Let's say there are aspects that made me think of [b:Ella Enchanted|24337|Ella Enchanted|Gail Carson Levine|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1410727190s/24337.jpg|2485462].
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LibrarianDest | 1 outra resenha | Jan 3, 2024 |
I appreciate what Diane Stanley is trying to accomplish with this book: What if the War on Terror escalates and our world is drastically changed? Rationing, attacks, fear, panic, etc. grip the nation and our leaders make some ugly choices. They treat people of Arab decent the same way people of Japanese decent were treated after Pearl Harbor. What would you do if they were going to take your friend away just because of where his parents were born? Would you be brave?

Now let me be cynical: An idealized hippie-agrarian family (the kids are named Mouse and Sky, they live off the grid without TV or computers, they practice some kind of humanist/pagan spiritualism that involves a lot of blessing of stuff) does what any saintly family would do during a crisis and rescues a young boy of Arab descent from racist, Arab-fearing government officials. Sky writes an essay about how messed up the country has become.

I like/don't like this book because it's message is so clear. It would be absolutely terrible to live in a country that openly punished people of a certain ethnicity. It takes a lot of courage to stand up for what's right when everyone is scared and the country is being attacked. The United States is not a perfect nation. Bad things could happen here. Have happened here.

This book is saved from being unbearably preachy by good writing and a fast-moving plot. I enjoyed reading it, even though I rolled my eyes more than once (it was mostly the perfection of Sky's parents that brought on the eye rolls). It would be a good choice for a book club this year or next, but I don't think it will have staying power. It's kind of a modern, speculative version of [b:Number the Stars|47281|Number the Stars|Lois Lowry|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170346710s/47281.jpg|2677305]. The ending is totally open-ended, which is how a book taking on such a big topic manages to be so short. Often, I wished the author would do more showing and less telling.
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LibrarianDest | outras 8 resenhas | Jan 3, 2024 |
Okay. This is a review with two different views because

1.) Alice Water's vision and mission in regards to food was trailblazing. Fresh ingredients and preserving farms is something vitally important. Being self-sustaining is huge. Loving food for what it can be and do is why I love to cook myself

HOWEVER

1.) I do agree with other reviews that this book does feel tone deaf. Or at the very least it is not approachable. Because not everyone has access to fresh ingredients. It is freaking expensive to dine at restaurants like Chez Panisse (For instance, it's $175 a person PLUS a 17 percent service charge AND a 10.25 percent sales tax).....that's too rich for my blood. And frankly, the small businesses chefs claim to want to help.

That is a pet peeve of mine. Unapproachable prices for the masses....
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msgabbythelibrarian | 1 outra resenha | Jun 11, 2023 |

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