Jack Kent (1920–1985)
Autor de There's No Such Thing as a Dragon
Sobre El Autor
Jack Kent was born in 1920 in Burlington, Iowa. He left high school at the age of 15 and began a career as a freelance commercial artist. His first nationally recognized work was King Aroo whcih was syndicated and distributed from 1950-1965. The early comic strips were collected in a 192 page book, mostrar más King Aroo, published in 1953. Jack Kent wrote and drew the 1968 syndicated Christmas cominstrip, Why Christmas Almost Wasn't. Jack Kent and his wife named their home on the banks of the San Antonio River King Aroo's Castle. He began writing and illustrating children's books in 1968. Jack Kent's book, Just Only John, received awards from the Chicago Graphics Associates and the Children's Book Clinic. The New York Times named his book Mr. Meebles outstanding picture book of the year for 1970. Some of Jack Kent's more famous works are Silly Goose, The Biggest Shadow in the Zoo and The Caterpillar and The Polliwog. He continued to write and illustrate children's books until his death in 1985 from leukemia. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: Estate of Jack Kent
Series
Obras de Jack Kent
Joey Runs Away, Titch, Wilford Gordon McDonald Partridge, Not So Fast Songololo, and more (2006) 2 copias
Piggy Bank Gonsales 1 copia
The Caterpillar an the polliwod 1 copia
Drachen gibt es doch gar nichts 1 copia
D'rakon -- Ein Davar Kazeh 1 copia
Sextet 1 copia
Blister Book 1 copia
Wie, wat waar, wat doe je daar? 1 copia
THE FAST CAT 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
The Brave Little Tailor (An Easy-to-read Folktale) (1977) — Ilustrador, algunas ediciones — 185 copias
How to make Possum's honey bread, Skunk's chocolate sprinkle bread, and Racoon's raisin bread, too (1975) — Ilustrador — 11 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Kent, Jack
- Otros nombres
- Kent, John Wellington
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1920-03-10
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1985-10-18
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Burlington, Iowa, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- San Antonio, Texas, USA
- Ocupaciones
- author
children's book illustrator
cartoonist - Premios y honores
- Chicago Graphics Award
- Biografía breve
- King Aroo daily comic strips (1950-1965) and numerous Children's books that he illustrated and/or wrote (1968-1985).
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- Obras
- 59
- También por
- 21
- Miembros
- 4,287
- Popularidad
- #5,860
- Valoración
- 4.2
- Reseñas
- 76
- ISBNs
- 186
- Idiomas
- 4
- Favorito
- 7