Frederick Richardson (1862–1937)
Author of Best-Loved Children's Stories
About the Author
Works by Frederick Richardson
Pat-a-Cake 1 copy
Associated Works
The Old Woman and Her Pig — Illustrator — 6 copies
The New Winston Primer and First Reader — Illustrator — 1 copy
Reading-Literature: Eighth Reader — Illustrator — 1 copy
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- Birthdate
- 1862
- Date of death
- 1937-01-15
- Gender
- male
- Education
- St. Louis School of Fine Arts
Académie Julian, Paris, France - Occupations
- professor Chicago Art Institute
- Short biography
- best remembered for his illustrations of works by L. Frank Baum. Richardson provided pictures for a series of schoolbooks called the Winston Readers. Richardson followed that initial work with many other book-illustration projects, including editions of the works of Hans Christian Andersen, Aesop's Fables, Mother Goose, Pinocchio, and East of the Sun and West of the Moon, plus two volumes in the series of Andrew Lang's Fairy Books. For John Heming Fry's "diatribe against modernism," The Revolt Against Beauty (1934), Richardson supplied pictures that parodied the work of Paul Gauguin and Vincent Van Gogh and characters from newspaper comic strips.
- Places of residence
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
New York, New York, USA - Associated Place (for map)
- USA
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Old Old Tales Retold: The Best-Beloved Folk Stories for Children features traditional literature stories. It has a table of contents and page numbers. It includes The Little Red Hen, The House on the Hill, The Three Little Pigs, Chicken Licken, The Old Woman and Her Pig, The Three Bears, and Little Tuppens. There is also a dedication page that explains that no one knows where these stories came from. I really liked how it provided a background idea of how stories only used to be told orally. show more I especially liked how it connected how both children then and now have grown to cherish these stories. I really liked the illustrations for each story, specifically on the title page of each story. This presented that each of these stories is separate, even though they are a part of the same book. There was also a relevant illustration tied into the beginning letter. The big idea of this story is that stories need to be shared any way possible, orally or written. It is a tradition that needs to be continued. Each story presents a different moral that all people need to learn. show less
This book is from the Juvenile Historic collection. It is a collection of short fables. The first story is about the king who gets sick and sends his sons to find a cure for him.
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- Rating
- 4.0
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- ISBNs
- 9
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