MEMBER LIBRARY WEEKLY BULLETIN
No. 03-27 July 03, 2003
DIANA McFARLAND, Youth Services Coordinator
I will be on vacation from July 7 to July 25. If you have any questions that need an immediate response, please contact Marisa (marisa@flls.org, x. 26) or Kathy (kathyp@flls.org, x. 32). Have a great start to the summer!
Kids visit Corning Glass Museum for Free!
The Corning Museum of Glass is offering free admission to kids 17 and under all summer. If you would like bookmarks promoting this offer from the museum, please let Marisa – There are lots to share. It’s a great opportunity for families looking for a day trip!Joan Lowery Nixon
“Joan Lowery Nixon, prize-winning author of more than 140 murder mysteries and historical novels for children and young adults, died Saturday, June 28, of complications from pancreatic cancer. She was 76. Joan Lowery Nixon, prize-winning author of more than 140 murder mysteries and historical novels for children and young adults, died Saturday of complications from pancreatic cancer. She was 76.” (For a full obituary, please visit http://www.dailybulletin.com/Stories/0,1413,203~21481~1488972,00.html.)
Robert McCloskey
Robert McCloskey, author and illustrator of the children's classics "Make Way for Ducklings," the tale of a mother mallard shepherding her brood to safety in Boston's Public Garden, and "Blueberries for Sal," has died at age 88.
McCloskey died Monday, July 1, at a home on Deer Isle after a long illness, Katrina Weidknecht, director of publicity at Penguin Books for Young Readers, said Tuesday.
His books, often inspired by his family's own experiences, focused on small-town life and the family's island home in Maine as well as Boston, the setting for his 1941 book "Make Way for Ducklings."
In all, he wrote and illustrated eight children's picture books.
"It is just sort of an accident that I write books. I really think up stories in pictures and just fill in between the pictures with a sentence or a paragraph or a few pages of words," he once said.
McCloskey, a native of Hamilton, Ohio, had come to Boston in 1932 to study art when he watched some ducklings waddling through traffic. In "Make Way for Ducklings," the mother takes her eight ducklings to safety in Boston's Public Garden after they make their way through the city's narrow cobblestone streets.
It won the Caldecott Medal for the best American children's picture book, and a bronze sculpture of Mrs. Mallard and her eight ducklings has become a popular tourist attraction in the park.
McCloskey and his wife, Margaret, the daughter of noted children's author Ruth Sawyer Durand, and their daughters spent summers on Scott Island in Maine, leading to "Blueberries for Sal" (1948), "One Morning in Maine" (1952), and "Time of Wonder" (1957). (Associated Press)
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