A sorcerer's apprentice has to complete several difficult tasks before dawn in order to obtain a missing ingredient for one of his master's spells.

The Porcelain Cat

Children's Books

Michael Patrick Hearn

Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths

Little,Brown & Co

Rats are gnawing at the sorcerer's books. What to do? Get a cat-but not just any cat. The sorcerer sends his apprentice nickon to fetch a missing ingredient for a spell that will bring his porcelain cat to life. Nickon ventures out on his mission and learns you can't get something for nothing. Beautifully printed in a new 10 x 10 format and in five colors.

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Milk & Cookies

"From the Silver Age to Stalin: Russian Children's Book Illustration in the Sasha Lurye Collection"; November 7, 2003-January 18, 2004. "The Picture Book Revolution", by Michael Patrick Hearn. Catalog Design by Rita Marshall, 32 Illustrations, Paper, 32 pp, 8 ¾" x 8 ½", 1,000 Copies, First Edition. From "Acknowledgments," by H. Nichols B. Clark: "We are privileged to host the exhibition of this extraordinary material, surveying Russian children's book illustration from the very end of the nineteenth century to the outbreak of World War II. It is all the more appropriate, since one of the central figures, Vladimir Lebedev, was so influential to Eric Carle's training as a graphic designer. In Russian terms, the exhibition covers the last years of rule under the tsars to the zenith of Stalin's ruthless power. As guest curator Michael Patrick Hearn observes, the beginning of this era marked a turning point in Russian cultural history when books and art began to be created and produced indigenously. Mindful of international currents, Russian book design embraced foreign sources while bringing its own aesthetic into play."

From the Silver Age to Stalin: Russian Children's Book Illustration

Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art

Seeking a State of Grace: The Art of Arnold Lobel

Exhibition catalog for Tomi Ungerer: Chronicler of the Absurd, The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, June 18 - October 9, 2011. Includes essay "Tomi Underer: Chronicler of the Absurd" by Michael Patrick Hearn, Guest Curator: "Perhaps no other contemporary graphic artist has inspired the same passions as has Tomi Ungerer. One either loves his work or hates it. There is no middle ground." - Michael Patrick Hearn

Tomi Ungerer: Chronicler of the Absurd

The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art

Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867 1957) finished her autobiography, Pioneer Girl, in 1930 when she was sixty-three years old. Throughout the 1930s and into the early 1940s, she drew upon her original manuscript to write a successful series of books for young readers. Wilder s vision of life on the American frontier in the last half of the nineteenth century continues to draw new generations of readers to her Little House books. Editor Nancy Tystad Koupal has collected essays from noted scholars of Wilder s life and work that explore the themes and genesis of Wilder s writings. Pioneer Girl Perspectives sheds new light on the story behind Wilder s original manuscript and examines the ways in which the author and her daughter and editor, Rose Wilder Lane, worked to develop a marketable narrative. The essay contributors delve into the myths and realities of Wilder s work to discover the real lives of frontier children, the influence of time and place on both Wilder and Lane, and the role of folklore in the Little House novels. Together, the essays give readers a deeper understanding of how Wilder built and managed her story. Published over eighty years after its inception, Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography edited by Pamela Smith Hill gave readers new insight into the truth behind Wilder s fiction. Pioneer Girl Perspectives further demonstrates the importance of Wilder as an influential American author whose stories of growing up on the frontier remain relevant today.

Pioneer Girl Perspectives: Exploring Laura Ingalls Wilder

Biographies & Memoirs

LAURA INGALLS WILDER

William Anderson

John E. Miller

Nancy Tystad Koupal (ed.)

Caroline Fraser

Elizabeth Jameson

Sallie Ketcham

Amy Mattson Lauters

Paula M. Nelson

Ann Romines

Noel L. Silverman

Community & Culture

South Dakota Historical Society Press

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