Marian Parry
Author of King of the Fish
About the Author
Image credit: Marian Parry, signing copies of The Paris Book
Works by Marian Parry
Associated Works
City Mouse - Country Mouse (And Two More Mouse Tales From Aesop) (An Easy-To-Read Folktale) (1970) — Illustrator, some editions — 1,634 copies, 10 reviews
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Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1924-01-28
- Gender
- female
- Education
- University of California (BA|1946)
Contemporaries Gallery - Occupations
- illustrator
lecturer
printmaker - Organizations
- Radcliffe College
University of Cambridge (Emmanuel College) - Short biography
- Marian Parry is an author, illustrator and watercolor artist. Her books have been published by Knopf, Simon & Schuster, Greenwillow, Heritage Press and Limited Editions, Pharos Verlag (Switzerland) and Scholastic Books. She has had many one-person shows. Her work is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Houghton Library of Harvard University and the Smith College Rare Book Room. The main archive of her work is in the print collection of the Boston Public Library. She was a fellow in the Bunting Fellowship Program, Radcliffe Institute and is the founder and senior instructor of the Watercolor Program for the Radcliffe Seminars at Harvard University. Marian and her husband live in Cambridge, Massachusetts. They have two grown children and a grandson. Married Maury D. Field (a librarian), April 1952.
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Places of residence
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Associated Place (for map)
- USA
Members
Reviews
I picked this up to see if I could use it as a Spirit Play story (I won't), and felt it was important to have my child read. This seemed so pertinent in light of today's top news story, about a kidnapping that probably could have been discovered had the victim not remained silent for so long.
This Korean folktale is brief and to the point (as folk tales tend to be). Message: Someone with malicious intent may lure you far away from safety with promises of treats aplenty (the spider and the show more fly story all over), but if you play along and gain the trust of your captor, you may cleverly escape. show less
This Korean folktale is brief and to the point (as folk tales tend to be). Message: Someone with malicious intent may lure you far away from safety with promises of treats aplenty (the spider and the show more fly story all over), but if you play along and gain the trust of your captor, you may cleverly escape. show less
"A manual for young helpers that is fun to look at and filled with useful things that are easy to do. Small children will want to emulate Marian Parry's cheerful mice as they go about their daily chores."
The story is partly told in plain text, and partly by comic-strip style illustrations with dialogue and small jokes. Simple ink drawings, tinted with red and blue.
Appealing to kindergarten and grade 1 children who are beginning to read, and who can take pride in the grown-up ways they can show more help around the house.
Not great literature, but very useful both for early readers and for teaching young helpers. show less
The story is partly told in plain text, and partly by comic-strip style illustrations with dialogue and small jokes. Simple ink drawings, tinted with red and blue.
Appealing to kindergarten and grade 1 children who are beginning to read, and who can take pride in the grown-up ways they can show more help around the house.
Not great literature, but very useful both for early readers and for teaching young helpers. show less
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Statistics
- Works
- 6
- Also by
- 3
- Members
- 33
- Popularity
- #421,954
- Rating
- 3.8
- Reviews
- 2
- ISBNs
- 5