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* Read * The Book of Small by Emily Carr å eBook or Kindle ePUB. The Book of Small A Victorian Era Gem Sarah I read this second, after 'Growing Pains the autobiography of Emily Carr'. If I was to compare the two, they're really quite different. This memoir is seen through Emily's childhood years in Victoria, BC. Little stories of herself, her parents, sisters and pets, told with innocence and some humor. The book incorporates Victoria itself, the changes it went through and it's evolution as a. Carr paints a precious portrait of Victoria in its infancy Nowick Gray Emily Carr p
| Title | : | The Book of Small |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.75 (522 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1553650557 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 264 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-24 |
| Language | : | English |
She is also the humour editor for the electronic children's literature journal, The Looking Glass.Ellis is the author of 13 books for young people, including the Governor General's Award-winning Pick-Up Sticks, Out of the Blue (winner of the IODE Violet Downey Book Award and the Mr. She studied art in San Francisco, London and Paris. Emily Carr was born in Victoria, British Columbia, in 1871, and died there in 1945. Except for a p
A Victorian Era Gem Sarah I read this second, after 'Growing Pains the autobiography of Emily Carr'. If I was to compare the two, they're really quite different. This memoir is seen through Emily's childhood years in Victoria, BC. Little stories of herself, her parents, sisters and pets, told with innocence and some humor. The book incorporates Victoria itself, the changes it went through and it's evolution as a. Carr paints a precious portrait of Victoria in its infancy Nowick Gray Emily Carr paints a precious portrait of the city of Victoria in its infancy, combined with a charming personal portrait of her own childhood growing up there. Her book begins with a section describing in minute and sensuous detail the experience of the child in the context of her family and the booming city-to-be. Her originality of phrasing captures both the innocence of childhood and. Painterly prose Carr's painter's eye gives her prose a vivid and animated quality. Presented simply, like a child and a good design.
"Carr is a magical wordsmith whose gorgeous prose reflects a desire for simplicity even as it sensually mirrors life in its teeming complexity." (Publishers Weekly 2012-01-01)"When Emily Carr decides in her sixties to look back upon her life it is her pleasure to create a wonderful big stamp album of wild places, strange pets, difficult characters, curious modes of transport and the like." (Hungry Mind Review 2012-01-01)
She wrote seven popular, critically acclaimed books about her journeys to remote Native communities and about her life as an artistas well as her life as a small child in Victoria at the turn of the last century.The Book of Small is a collection of 36 short stories about a childhood in a town that still had vestiges of its pioneer past. The legendary Emily Carr was primarily a painter, but she first gained recognition as an author. The Book of Small has been in print ever since its publication in 1942, and, like Klee Wyck, has been read and loved by a couple of generations.. All are observed through the sharp eyes and ears of a young, ever-curious and irrepressible girl, and Carr’s writing is a disarming combination of charm and devastating frankness.Carr’s writing is vital and direct, aware and poignant, and as well regarded
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