A Story Is to Share
How Ruth Krauss Found Another Way to Tell a Tale
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
A picture book from award-winning storytellers, author Carter Higgins and illustrator Isabelle Arsenault, A Story Is to Share is the extraordinarily told, one-of-a-kind story of legendary author and children’s book icon Ruth Krauss.
Born
a baby
late at night
there’s no parade
just crashing rain
She listens listens
writes and draws
stitches pages
sews a book
She finds another way
to tell a tale
This unique picture book biography provides a mesmerizing look at the life of children’s writer Ruth Krauss (1901–1993), best known for books such as The Carrot Seed, A Hole is to Dig, and A Very Special House. With an imaginative, spontaneous text from Carter Higgins that pays homage to Krauss’s distinctive voice, and Isabelle Arsenault’s exquisite illustrations that evoke a childlike sense of wonder, A Story Is to Share is a tribute to storytelling and creativity of all kinds.
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To tell the story of Ruth Krauss (1901–1993), an unconventional person who became a writer of unconventional picture books, the creators assemble playful phrases and vignettes in the spirit of their subject. For only child Krauss, "sickness sticks around a lot/ and steals her voice away." What to do? In ink, watercolor, and gouache, Arsenault paints a tiny figure at work, head bandaged, writing, drawing, stitching pages together to make a book: "She finds another way to tell a tale," Higgins writes. Krauss finds "another way to play a song," too, experimentally addressing a violin's strings, but receives rejections when she considers creating a book. Knowing that Krauss's story ends in triumph gives the subject's idiosyncrasies particular significance in a light picture book tribute that foregrounds new ways to think about art-making over a substantive look at the subject's life. Ages 4–8.
