Corinne Malvern (1901–1956)
Author of The Night Before Christmas (Corinne Malvern)
About the Author
Works by Corinne Malvern
Tiny Tots Simple Objects 1 copy
Storytime Tales - A Treasury of 67 Favorite Stories, Poems, and Songs, Old and New (A Big Golden Book) (1950) 1 copy
Nursery Rhymes and Songs 1 copy
COUNTING RHYMES — Illustrator — 1 copy
Nursery Rhymes 1 copy
Associated Works
The First Woman Doctor: The Story of Elizabeth Blackwell, M.D. (1944) — Illustrator, some editions — 1,108 copies, 3 reviews
The Night Before Christmas (Little Golden Book) (1949) — Illustrator, some editions — 427 copies, 2 reviews
Bedtime Tales a Treasury of 26 favorite Stories Old and New (A Big Golden Book) (1951) — Illustrator — 7 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1901-12-13
- Date of death
- 1956-11-09
- Gender
- female
- Education
- Art Students League of New York
- Occupations
- children's book illustrator
commercial artist
art editor
actor - Organizations
- Ladies Home Journal
- Relationships
- Malvern, Gladys (sister)
- Short biography
- Corinne Malvern was born in Virginia. She and her older sister Gladys had a peripatetic childhood with their mother, Cora, a theatrical wardrobe mistress. They became actresses as small children and by their teens were performing in traveling vaudeville shows and working in the growing New York movie industry. By the early 1920s, they had given up acting. Corinne went to boarding school and then studied at the Art Students League of New York. She went to work as a commercial artist and created influential magazine covers, fashion illustrations, and portraits for many years. She served as art editor for Ladies Home Journal. With her sister as writer, she also branched out into children's books. They collaborated on several titles, including Valiant Minstrel (1943), an award-winning biography of Sir Harry Lauder.
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Accomack County, Virginia, USA
- Places of residence
- Newark, New Jersey, USA
Los Angeles, California, USA
New York, New York, USA - Place of death
- Weston, Connecticut, USA
- Associated Place (for map)
- USA
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Reviews
Having scratched his finger once, a boy becomes obsessed with applying adhesive bandages to everyone and everything around him. I think when my daughter was five, she liked using the adhesive bandages that came with the book more than actually reading it.
So in the end, it's an expensive way to buy two Band-Aids.
FOR REFERENCE:
Rated “Indifferent" in our old book database by Rod and Adelia.
So in the end, it's an expensive way to buy two Band-Aids.
FOR REFERENCE:
Rated “Indifferent" in our old book database by Rod and Adelia.
This charming book was among my childhood favorites. While “playing cowboy" with his friends, little Dan skins his knee and runs crying to his mother. She cleans his cut, applies a Bandaid (tm) bandage, and pronounces him "better than new". A subsequent cut from an episode with a runaway wagon yields the same treatment.
Dan then proceeds to help his family in similar fashion. Little sister's Dolly falls and gets a bump, and Dan fixes her up with a Bandaid (tm). Sis searches hard and finds show more an old scratch on her leg, which Doctor Dan proceeds to bandage as well. The dog hurts its paw -- another Bandaid (tm). The climax of the tale comes when Dad, while mowing the lawn, apparently nicks his finger (there's no blood, and adult readers may wonder at the fortuitous timing of the alleged injury). Dan comes to the rescue with yet another Bandaid (tm). Clearly, with Doctor Dan on hand, this accident- prone family has little to worry about. And since the book was supplied with ~12 little taupe - colored Bandaids (tm) (as a brilliant product placement for the 1950s), little taupe - colored middle class boys were encouraged to practice their own form of home medicine. From this experience, just maybe they'd grow up to be real doctors, instead of mere biologists or (worse still) attorneys.
As one of the all time best - sellers of the Golden Book series, Doctor Dan the Bandage Man is still in print after half a century. True, the number of complimentary Bandaids (tm) has diminished with inflation (one recent edition proclaims in excitement that it comes “with two real plastic bandages!”). However, the story itself remains sweet and heart-warming.
Nevertheless, according to some alarmed reviewers at Amazon.com, parents may want to think twice before exposing hapless children to its nefarious values and traditional gender roles. After all, little Dan is playing "cowboy" with actual toy guns (one must hope that Native Americans weren’t the intended targets, and that any captured bank robbers were to be turned over to a court of law after being informed of their legal rights). In the story, Mom clearly has no job outside the home. What’s more, she scolds little Dan for his tears, instead of encouraging him to express his feelings -- no doubt setting him up for a lifetime of dysfunctional relationships and counseling sessions. Dad is no role model either -- faking an injury for the sake of sympathy, and encouraging his own son to practice medicine without a license. And what’s up with Dad’s lawnmower -- who ever heard of one that you had to actually push around the yard?
Somehow, I think that boys and girls born in the 21st century can read Doctor Dan and emerge unscathed. Who knows, they might even come to view health care as a fundamental human right, rather than a resource limited by the handful of available Bandaids (tm). show less
Dan then proceeds to help his family in similar fashion. Little sister's Dolly falls and gets a bump, and Dan fixes her up with a Bandaid (tm). Sis searches hard and finds show more an old scratch on her leg, which Doctor Dan proceeds to bandage as well. The dog hurts its paw -- another Bandaid (tm). The climax of the tale comes when Dad, while mowing the lawn, apparently nicks his finger (there's no blood, and adult readers may wonder at the fortuitous timing of the alleged injury). Dan comes to the rescue with yet another Bandaid (tm). Clearly, with Doctor Dan on hand, this accident- prone family has little to worry about. And since the book was supplied with ~12 little taupe - colored Bandaids (tm) (as a brilliant product placement for the 1950s), little taupe - colored middle class boys were encouraged to practice their own form of home medicine. From this experience, just maybe they'd grow up to be real doctors, instead of mere biologists or (worse still) attorneys.
As one of the all time best - sellers of the Golden Book series, Doctor Dan the Bandage Man is still in print after half a century. True, the number of complimentary Bandaids (tm) has diminished with inflation (one recent edition proclaims in excitement that it comes “with two real plastic bandages!”). However, the story itself remains sweet and heart-warming.
Nevertheless, according to some alarmed reviewers at Amazon.com, parents may want to think twice before exposing hapless children to its nefarious values and traditional gender roles. After all, little Dan is playing "cowboy" with actual toy guns (one must hope that Native Americans weren’t the intended targets, and that any captured bank robbers were to be turned over to a court of law after being informed of their legal rights). In the story, Mom clearly has no job outside the home. What’s more, she scolds little Dan for his tears, instead of encouraging him to express his feelings -- no doubt setting him up for a lifetime of dysfunctional relationships and counseling sessions. Dad is no role model either -- faking an injury for the sake of sympathy, and encouraging his own son to practice medicine without a license. And what’s up with Dad’s lawnmower -- who ever heard of one that you had to actually push around the yard?
Somehow, I think that boys and girls born in the 21st century can read Doctor Dan and emerge unscathed. Who knows, they might even come to view health care as a fundamental human right, rather than a resource limited by the handful of available Bandaids (tm). show less
The Night Before Christmas: A Little Golden Book (illustrated by Corinne Malvern) by Clement C. Moore
Corinne Malvern's illustrations for Moore's poem remind me a bit of the Coca Cola version of Santa Claus that would have been pervasive in ads for nearly two decades before this book came into print.
It's nicely done, though I do wonder about this page. Is it just me or does Santa's wink combine with the flipped up hem of his jacket to give off a tone a little more sexual than seasonal? It's probably just me.
https://i.imgur.com/rs1wOf7.jpg
It's nicely done, though I do wonder about this page. Is it just me or does Santa's wink combine with the flipped up hem of his jacket to give off a tone a little more sexual than seasonal? It's probably just me.
https://i.imgur.com/rs1wOf7.jpg
The Night Before Christmas, illustrated by Corinne Malvern.
Clement C. Moore's delightful Christmas poem, which was originally published in 1823, and which was quite influential, in forming the current idea and image of Santa Claus, is here presented as a Little Golden Book, with the accompanying illustrations of Corinne Malvern. The poetic text reads delightfully (as always), while the artwork is colorful and cute, with a vintage sensibility...
This version of The Night Before Christmas was show more first published by Little Golden Books in 1949, and seems to have been in print ever since. I think I might have encountered it as a girl, as the artwork looks so familiar to me. Then again, given the fact that Malvern also illustrated Christmas Carols, another Little Golden Book first published in 1946, which I happened to read last year, perhaps the artwork simply looks familiar because I have encountered the illustrator before. Whatever the case may be, this is a sweetly old-fashioned presentation of a holiday favorite, one I would recommend to those looking for engaging Christmas books for the younger picture-book audience. show less
Clement C. Moore's delightful Christmas poem, which was originally published in 1823, and which was quite influential, in forming the current idea and image of Santa Claus, is here presented as a Little Golden Book, with the accompanying illustrations of Corinne Malvern. The poetic text reads delightfully (as always), while the artwork is colorful and cute, with a vintage sensibility...
This version of The Night Before Christmas was show more first published by Little Golden Books in 1949, and seems to have been in print ever since. I think I might have encountered it as a girl, as the artwork looks so familiar to me. Then again, given the fact that Malvern also illustrated Christmas Carols, another Little Golden Book first published in 1946, which I happened to read last year, perhaps the artwork simply looks familiar because I have encountered the illustrator before. Whatever the case may be, this is a sweetly old-fashioned presentation of a holiday favorite, one I would recommend to those looking for engaging Christmas books for the younger picture-book audience. show less
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