Children's Literature Association Series
How an Unlikely Couple Found Love, Dodged the Fbi, and Transformed Children's Literature
Children's Literature Association Series
How an Unlikely Couple Found Love, Dodged the Fbi, and Transformed Children's Literature
Examines the lives and careers of the husband and wife children's book authors who embraced their leftist beliefs in the era of McCarthyism and in the midst of the Cold War and who were the targets of FBI surveillance for years
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Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss were a husband-and-wife team that created such popular children's books as The Carrot Seed and How to Make an Earthquake. Their style - whimsical writing, clear and minimalist drawing, and a child's point-of-view - is among the most revered and influential in children's literature. This critical biography examines their lives and careers.