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"Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them."
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
(1900 - 1965),
quoted by Human Behavior,
May 1978
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ZIN Product Number: 10187988
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Hardcover, 1st ed.
Edition: Illustrated
Publisher: Morrow,William & Co
ISBN: 0688071619
Release Date: Jan 9, 1994
Age Range: 5 to 8
| |  | | | In Brief
"This is Grandpa's album, made for the family, of the photos and dailypostcards that Stringbean Coe and his big brother Fred sent home to the folksthe summer they traveled from Kansas to the Pacific in Fred's truck. . . . Grades one to four." (SLJ)
| | | | From The Publisher
Dear Reader,
Here are the postcards and snapshots that Stringbean Coe and his brother Fred sent home from the long trip they made one summer in Fred's truck.
Their grandfather made this album for the family—and for you. Enjoy yourselves!
Love,
Vera and JenniferStringbean Coe, his big brother, Fred, and their dog, Potato, are driving from Kansas to California in a pickup truck with a little house built on the back. Reading the postcards they send home every day is the next best thing to having a cross-country adventure all your own.
"A good-hearted celebration of life and experience, and a gift to the public."—School Library Journal
Author Biography: Vera B. Williams lives in New York City.
In Her Own Words...
"Throughout my childhood I was encouraged to make pictures, tell stories, act, and dance—all of this at a heaven in our New York City neighborhood called the Bronx House.
"Saturdays I painted with a crusading art director, Florence Cane. In her book The Growth of the Child Through Art, I appear under the name Linda. I was sixteen when the book appeared and embarrassed by it. But at age nine I had been totally proud when a painting of mine was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art and I was later shown in the Movietone News explaining to Eleanor Roosevelt its Yiddish title, "Yentas."
"In 1945 I went to Black Mountain College in North Carolina, a unique educational community. I graduated in 1949 in graphic art, which I studied with Josef Albers. Along the way I planted corn, made butter, worked on the printing press, and helped to build the house in which I lived with Paul Williams, a fellow student Imarried there.
"I wanted that connection of art and community to continue. And it did at the Gate Hill Cooperative, a community we built with other Black Mountain people, a poet, musicians, and potters. I lived and worked there from 1953-1970 (after which I moved to Canada). My children (Sarah, Jenny, Merce) grew up there. For them, we branched out into a school, part of the Surnmerhill movement. The gingerbread houses that led to my first book for Greenwillow I first made in sticky variety at our school. I have always liked to teach and have taught art, cooking, writing, nature study, for nursery age on.
"At forty-six, no longer married, living in a houseboat on the bay at Vancouver, British Columbia, I did my first book. But before that could happen, the fates decreed a stint of cooking and running a bakery at a small school in the Ontario countryside. My love affair with Canada included also a 500-mile trip on the Yukon River. Many of those adventures I put in Three Days on a River in a Red Canoe.
"I also write and draw for adults-short stories, leaflets, and posters. As a lover of children, I try to do what I can to help save their earth from nuclear disaster. This pursuit, too, has added its excitement to my biography, including, in 1981, a month's stay in the federal penitentiary in Alderson, West Virginia (an outcome of a women's peaceful blockade of the Pentagon). Perhaps this experience will some day appear in one of my books. So far I've found children's books a wonderfully accommodating medium where any of my various activities might pop up."
| | | | Annotation
The much-loved Vera B. Williams and her daughter Jennifer have created an album of postcards and photographs purportedly sent to his family by Cesar (Stringbean) J. Coe, on his trip to the Pacific Ocean with his brother Fred. Illustrated.
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