Robert Mccloskey : : a Private Life in Words and Pictures
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Call Number: 741.642 McC
On Shelf At: Downtown Library
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Includes index.
Robert McCloskey 1914-2003 -- Early years -- My mother -- The island -- Artist's daughters -- Time of wonder -- My grandparents at Gull Rock -- New York -- Journey to Maine with Bob -- Mexico, first year -- Trouble in paradise -- Mexico, second year -- Entering adolescence -- High school -- Fame -- Dinner with my parents -- The paranormal and the weird -- Spies and the underworld -- Mom dying -- Dad dying -- Seagulls.
McCloskey wrote and painted what he knew: from his Midwestern childhood to island life in Maine. His younger daughter, Jane, chronicles the loving, difficult, but productive family relationships in a way that will add depth and meaning to his wonderful books.
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PUBLISHED
[Lanham, Md.] : Distributed by National Book Network, 2011.
Year Published: 2011
Description: 200 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 26 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780978689964
0978689968
SUBJECTS
McCloskey, Robert, -- 1914-2003.
Illustrators -- Maine -- Biography.