Everything Under a Mushroom
by Ruth Krauss
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Tiny boys and girls play under a mushroom--setting up a little town, imagining they are flowers, and pretending all sorts of things.Tags
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"I'll be the little street and you be the little street cleaner."
"I wouldn't wish to be the moon. Someone might think I was a hole and plant a flower in me."
"I'm the gate that lets the flowers into the garden."
Surprisingly still relevant to children who have not become addicted to their screens. For adults, a powerful and utterly beguiling tribute to the power of imagination. For children, an amusement and a comforting feeling that this author, this illustrator, actually understands them.
I wonder about the constant repetition of the word 'little' though. To me that seems patronizing. But it's done for poetic effect, and also maybe it helps a child take ownership of the word, much in the way that certain people have taken ownership of show more the words Queer and N*.
I wish more of the best older books would stay in print. show less
"I wouldn't wish to be the moon. Someone might think I was a hole and plant a flower in me."
"I'm the gate that lets the flowers into the garden."
Surprisingly still relevant to children who have not become addicted to their screens. For adults, a powerful and utterly beguiling tribute to the power of imagination. For children, an amusement and a comforting feeling that this author, this illustrator, actually understands them.
I wonder about the constant repetition of the word 'little' though. To me that seems patronizing. But it's done for poetic effect, and also maybe it helps a child take ownership of the word, much in the way that certain people have taken ownership of show more the words Queer and N*.
I wish more of the best older books would stay in print. show less
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Author Information
Ruth Krauss was born on July 25, 1901 in Baltimore, Maryland. She attended the Peabody Institute of Music. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Parsons School of Fine and Applied Art and studied anthropology at Columbia University. In 1941, she married David Johnson Leisk, who wrote and illustrated children's books as Crockett Johnson. show more They occasionally worked together. Her first book, A Good Man and His Good Wife, was published in 1944. She was credited as being one of the first authors to use minimal text, concentrating on precise language and working closely with an illustrator. She wrote more than 30 children's books during her lifetime including The Carrot Seed, I Can Fly, and A Hole Is to Dig: A First Book of First Definitions. She received the Caldecott Medal for The Happy Day in 1950 and A Very Special House in 1954. She also wrote verse plays and poetry for adults. She died on July 10, 1993 at the age of 91. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Children's Books, Picture Books
- DDC/MDS
- 398.8 — Society, government, & culture Customs, etiquette & folklore Folklore & Folktales Rhymes and rhyming games
- LCC
- PZ8.3 .K865 .E — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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- Languages
- English
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- Paper
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