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The Poppy Seed Cakes

Illustrated by Maud and Miska Petersham

The Poppy Seed Cakes( )
Author: Clark, Margery
Illustrator: Petersham, Maud
Petersham, Miska
Series title:Everyman's Library Children's Classics Ser.
ISBN:978-0-375-71232-6
Publication Date:Oct 2013
Publisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Imprint:Everyman's Library
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $26.95
Book Description:

The Poppy Seed Cakes is a beloved children's classic first published in 1924: eight charming and humorous linked stories about little Andrewshek and his Auntie Katushka, with colorful woodcuts by Caldecott Award-winning illustrators Maud and Miska Petersham.   Auntie Katushka has just come from the Old Country, bringing poppy seeds to make cakes for a mischief-prone four-year-old boy named Andrewshek. A little neighbor girl named Erminka, who wears red...
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Book Details
Pages:160
Detailed Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / General
Juvenile Fiction / Short Stories
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.33 x 8.3 x 0.59 Inches
Book Weight:0.72 Pounds
Author Biography
Clark, Margery (Author)
Maud Fuller Petersham was born in Kingston, New York on August 5, 1889. She graduated from Vassar College in 1912 and later studied at the New York School of Fine and Applied Art. She worked at the International Art Service, where she met her future husband and life-long illustrating partner, Miska Petersham. The husband-and-wife team illustrated more than 70 books for children, many of which they also wrote. They received the 1946 Caldecott Medal for The Rooster Crows: A Book of American Rhymes and Jingles. Their other works include The Rootabaga Stories by Carl Sandburg, The Box with Red Wheels, and The Christ Child. She died in 1971.

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