What Charlie Heard - Rilegato

Gerstein, Mordicai

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ISBN 10: 0374382921 ISBN 13: 9780374382926

Casa editrice: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2002

Riassunto

Describes the life of the twentieth-century American composer Charles Ives, who wrote music which expressed all the sounds he heard in the world, but which was not well received during his lifetime.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Mordicai Gerstein is the author and illustrator of The Man Who Walked Between the Towers, winner of the Caldecott Medal, and has had four books named New York Times Best Illustrated Books of the Year. Gerstein was born in Los Angeles in 1935. He remembers being inspired as a child by images of fine art, which his mother cut out of Life magazine, and by children’s books from the library: “I looked at Rembrandt and Superman, Matisse and Bugs Bunny, and began to make my own pictures.”

He attended Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, and then got a job in an animated cartoon studio that sent him to New York, where he designed characters and thought up ideas for TV commercials. When a writer named Elizabeth Levy asked him to illustrate a humorous mystery story about two girls and a dog, his book career began, and soon he moved on to writing as well as illustrating. “I’m still surprised to be an author,” he says. “I wonder what I’ll write next?” Gerstein lives in Westhampton, Massachusetts.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0374382921
• ISBN 13: 9780374382926
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile