Eva Katharine Gibson (1857–1916)
Auteur van The Prairie-Dog Prince: A Prairie Tale
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- Officiële naam
- Gibson, Eva Katharine Clapp
- Geboortedatum
- 1857
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1916
- Geslacht
- female
- Geboorteplaats
- Bradford, Illinois, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Illinois, USA (Birth)
- Korte biografie
- Poet and prose writer Eva Katharine Clapp Gibson (1857–1916) was born in Bradford, Illinois. An early and unhappy first marriage ended in divorce, and inspired her to write a series of novels advocating women's issues and perspectives. She married chemist Charles Brockway Gibson, traveled in Europe, and settled in Chicago.
Zauberlinda was Gibson's only novel for children. She also wrote verse and a range of miscellaneous works. Gibson traveled in bohemian circles while living in Chicago, along with Baum, W. W. Denslow, and Grace Duffie Boylan, who would later writer her own Oz imitation in Yama Yama Land.
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Deze bespreking is geschreven voor LibraryThing Vroege Recensenten.The Prairie-Dog Prince is a delightful little book! My 5 year old daughter was quite taken with the story. She's requested that we read it again sometime. While it is a chapter book, it is easily read in one night as there are only 3 chapters. The introduction is worth reading to your kids too. My son was very interested in the descriptions of which parts of the story were based on German folk-lore, since we're living in Germany right now. This is a sweet story with a nice lesson for kids.
The Prairie Dog Prince is a charming moral fable in the tradition of Mrs Molesworth's The Cuckoo Clock or E. Nesbit's House of Arden and as such, an excellent introduction to a rich body of children's literature. Little truly outstanding fantasy in this genre has been written for the picture-book set (from 4 to 8 years old or thereabouts) -- The Tailor of Gloucester springs to mind and perhaps Tatsinda, but precious few others -- and this spirited adaptation of a longer 19th-century work helps to fill this gap in children's literature. I highly recommend it to parents hoping to introduce their children to the rich language and imagery of Nesbit, Molesworth and Edward Eager in another year or two.… (meer)
Deze bespreking is geschreven voor LibraryThing Vroege Recensenten.The Prairie Dog Prince was adapted from a story by Eva Katharine Gibson and illustrated by Carolyn Digby Conahan. It is part of the Prairie Tales series from the South Dakota State Historical Society Press. Originally published as Zauberlinda: The Wise Witch in 1901, this adaptation was crafted by Nancy Tystad Koupal.
My surface thought during our first reading was, "What a refreshingly unique book!" Here we were reading a children's book with vibrant and evocative language! No watered down vocabulary; no minced and chopped sentences.
"...So you are a greedy little girl. You ate up all the strawberries."
Annie's face blushed crimson.
"Well," said the little girl, almost crying, "I did not mean to do it, indeed I did not. And it is just dreadfully mean," Annie went on, "that the nicest things should be so scarce and put up in such stingy bunches. No one cares much about pumpkins, except cows, yet see how big they grow. Oh, I wish I could find some wild strawberries as big as pumpkins!"
No sooner had Annie spoken this wish aloud, than the water wagtails began to squawk. They fluttered around her as though in great fear or distress. The prairie dog seemed pleased, but the size of the strawberries Annie spied next to the creek was alarming.
As you can see, the story is fantastical and, as all good children's stories should, leaves us with a moral in which to ponder and grow.
The illustrations are not typically what I care for, but truly do the story justice. They are a misty watercolor look into a world as brightly colored as the characters gracing it's pages.
Well done, all around! I highly recommend the story, and the series. I found it available on pre-order from Amazon: The Prairie Dog Prince… (meer)
My surface thought during our first reading was, "What a refreshingly unique book!" Here we were reading a children's book with vibrant and evocative language! No watered down vocabulary; no minced and chopped sentences.
"...So you are a greedy little girl. You ate up all the strawberries."
Annie's face blushed crimson.
"Well," said the little girl, almost crying, "I did not mean to do it, indeed I did not. And it is just dreadfully mean," Annie went on, "that the nicest things should be so scarce and put up in such stingy bunches. No one cares much about pumpkins, except cows, yet see how big they grow. Oh, I wish I could find some wild strawberries as big as pumpkins!"
No sooner had Annie spoken this wish aloud, than the water wagtails began to squawk. They fluttered around her as though in great fear or distress. The prairie dog seemed pleased, but the size of the strawberries Annie spied next to the creek was alarming.
As you can see, the story is fantastical and, as all good children's stories should, leaves us with a moral in which to ponder and grow.
The illustrations are not typically what I care for, but truly do the story justice. They are a misty watercolor look into a world as brightly colored as the characters gracing it's pages.
Well done, all around! I highly recommend the story, and the series. I found it available on pre-order from Amazon: The Prairie Dog Prince… (meer)
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Apparently inspired by L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, first published in 1900, Gibson set out to write a fairy-tale/fantasy set in her part of the world, taking elements from both European and indigenous traditions - the gnome king and his mining people, the Wind Cave entrance to the underworld and the prairie dogs - and creating something new: a fairy-tale of the prairies. I thought it was quite interesting that the Gnome King warns Annie so sternly about the limitations of wealth (and specifically, gold) as a means of finding wisdom or happiness, since the settling of South Dakota was so intimately tied up in the crazy rush for gold. I'd never heard of Gibson's Zauberlinda the Wise Witch, before picking up this book, but now that I have, I'd like to read it! These early American fantasists are really quite fascinating, I think. With its engaging story, paired with sweet watercolor illustrations by Carolyn Digby Conahan, The Prairie-Dog Prince is a book I'd recommend to young fairy-tale and fantasy fans. It isn't a picture-book - more like a very simple chapter-book - so I'd say that children at the upper-elementary school level would make the best audience.… (meer)