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Canonical name: Gibson, Katharine
Legal name: Wicks, Katharine Gibson
Birthdate: 1893-09-13
Date of death: 1960-02-29
Gender: female
Occupations: children's book author
Organizations: Cleveland Museum of Art (Education Department)
Artists and Writers Guild (Editorial Consultant)
Awards and honors: Horn Book Fanfare Best book of the year award, 1939
Relationships: Gibson, Louis Henry (father)
Peirce, Pam (granddaughter)
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Places of residence: Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Place of death: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Associated Place (for map): Ohio, USA

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Fairy Tales - (Big Book - Illustrated by Erika) by Katharine Gibson

This book is a collection of the major fairy tales. There are very few variations from their original story. The book has the Shoemaker and the Elves, Jack and the Beanstalk, Rapunzel and many other stories.

I really liked this book. There are very few pictures but the pictures that are in the book explain the story very well. I liked that the book had all the classics that I remembered as a little girl.

I would read this book to my class when we were needing to calm down. I would also have show more the students pick their favorite story from the book and have them write their own version of the story. show less

Sep 20, 2009