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Elizabeth Enright (1907–1968)

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Verk av Elizabeth Enright

Den försvunna sjön (1957) 2,429 exemplar
Thimble Summer (1938) 2,040 exemplar
The Saturdays (1941) 1,675 exemplar
The Four-Story Mistake (1942) 1,094 exemplar
Return to Gone-Away (1961) 1,052 exemplar
Then There Were Five (1944) 868 exemplar
Tatsinda (1963) 138 exemplar
The Melendy Family (1944) 52 exemplar
Zeee (1965) 42 exemplar
The Sea Is All Around (1940) 29 exemplar
Borrowed Summer (1946) 10 exemplar
The Moment Before the Rain (1951) 10 exemplar
Kintu: A Congo Adventure (1935) 7 exemplar
A Christmas Tree for Lydia (1951) 7 exemplar
I.S.A.A.C. (1963) 5 exemplar
Kees and Kleintje (1934) — Illustratör — 5 exemplar
Kees (1930) — Illustratör — 4 exemplar
The Crystal Locket 1 exemplar
Melendy Quartet 1 exemplar

Associerade verk

Ten Tales of Christmas (1972) — Bidragsgivare — 146 exemplar
The Young Folks' Shelf of Books, Volume 05: In Your Own Backyard (1962) — Bidragsgivare — 142 exemplar
Best in Children's Books 23 (1959) 56 exemplar
Point of Departure (1967) — Bidragsgivare — 45 exemplar
The Best American Short Stories 1951 (1951) — Bidragsgivare — 6 exemplar
Twenty-Three Modern Stories (1963) — Bidragsgivare — 4 exemplar
The Best American Short Stories 1954 (1954) — Bidragsgivare — 4 exemplar
The Best American Short Stories 1952 (1952) — Bidragsgivare — 4 exemplar
Sails Set for Treasure Land (1953) — Illustratör — 2 exemplar

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Namn enligt folkbokföringen
Gillham, Elizabeth Wright Enright
Födelsedag
1907-09-17
Avled
1968-06-08
Begravningsplats
Wainscott Cemetery, Suffolk County, New York, USA
Kön
female
Nationalitet
USA
Födelseort
Oak Park, Illinois, USA
Dödsort
Wainscott, New York, USA
Bostadsorter
New York, New York, USA
Utbildning
Art Students League of New York
Parsons School of Design
Yrken
illustrator
teacher (Barnard College ∙ creative writing)
children's book author
children's book illustrator
short story writer
book critic
Relationer
Wright, Frank Lloyd (uncle)
Barney, Maginel Wright (mother)
Enright, Walter J. (father)
Kort biografi
Elizabeth Enright's mother, Maginel Wright Enright, was a popular magazine and children's book illustrator, and her father, Walter J. Enright, was a political cartoonist. The couple divorced when Elizabeth was 11 years old, and she was sent to a boarding school in Connecticut. She spent summers on Nantucket and on her uncle Frank Lloyd Wright's farm in Wisconsin, locations she later used in some of her works. She studied dancing for time under Martha Graham, and attended the Art Students League of New York, Parsons School of Design, and studied art in Paris. In 1930, she married Robert Gillham, an advertising executive, with whom she had three sons. She created her first book, Kintu: A Congo Adventure, in 1935. Among her beloved children's books are those featuring the Melendy family, including The Saturdays (1941). Elizabeth Enright also wrote short stories for adults, and her work was published in national publications such as The New Yorker, Ladies Home Journal, Cosmopolitan, Harper’s, and The Saturday Evening Post. She also taught creative writing at Barnard College and reviewed children's literature for The New York Times. writing. She won many awards in her career, including the 1939 Newbery Medal for Thimble Summer and a 1958 Newbery Honor for Gone-Away Lake.

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Eleven-year-old Portia is taking the train with her younger brother Foster to their Aunt & Uncle's farm for their usual summer vacation. Her cousin Julian shares her interest in exploring outdoors, and knows quite a lot of natural history. They come across a swamp, and meet some elderly siblings living an old-fashioned existence, without electricity or running water, in their former family lake homes. They are fascinating characters, and sometimes an entire chapter consists of one of the elders telling a story about their childhood. Mrs. Cheever shares her knowledge of swamp plants, "Pin" Peyton lets them help with the goats and chickens, and they let the 2 youngsters make a clubhouse out of another lake home. Portia and Julian keep their activities a secret, but Foster follows them one day and gets stuck in the swamp.
Portia starts out as a strong character, but by the end of the book she is devoting her time to play housekeeping and an interest in dolls, having fallen into stereotyped roles once another neighbor girl joins them. In general, though, I think this book presents a summer vacation that most kids would be envious of, and would enjoy reading about.
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juniperSun | 31 andra recensioner | Oct 22, 2023 |
A few hours after nine-year-old Garnet Linden finds a silver thimble in the dried-up riverbed, the rains come and end the long drought on the farm. The rains bring safety for the crops and the livestock, and money for Garnet's father. Garnet can't help feeling that the thimble is a magic talisman, for the summer proves to be interesting and exciting in so many different ways.

There is the arrival of Eric, an orphan who becomes a member of the Linden family; the building of a new barn; and the county fair at which Garnet's carefully tended pig, Timmy, wins a blue ribbon. Every day brings adventure of some kind to Garnet and her best friend, Citronella. As far as Garnet is concerned, the thimble is responsible for each good thing that happens during this magic summer--her thimble summer.… (mer)
 
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PlumfieldCH | 25 andra recensioner | Sep 23, 2023 |
With Father in Washington and Cuffy, their housekeeper, away visiting a sick cousin, almost anything might happen to the Melendy kids left behind at the Four-Story Mistake. In the Melendy family, adventures are inevitable: Mr. Titus and the catfish; the villainy of the DeLacey brothers; Rush's composition of Opus 3; Mona's first rhubarb pie and all the canning; Randy's arrowhead; the auction and fair for the Red Cross. But best of all is the friendship with Mark Herron, which begins with a scrap-collection mission and comes to a grand climax on Oliver's birthday.

Here is Elizabeth Enright's classic story of a long and glorious summer in the country with the resourceful, endearing Melendy bunch.
Then There Were Five is the third installment of Enright's Melendy Quartet, an engaging and warm series about the close-knit Melendy family and their surprising adventures.
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PlumfieldCH | 11 andra recensioner | Sep 21, 2023 |
Meet the Melendys! The four Melendy children live with their father and Cuffy, their beloved housekeeper, in a worn but comfortable brownstone in New York City. There's thirteen-year-old Mona, who has decided to become an actress; twelve-year-old mischievous Rush; ten-and-a-half-year-old Randy, who loves to dance and paint; and thoughtful Oliver, who is just six.

Tired of wasting Saturdays doing nothing but wishing for larger allowances, the four Melendys jump at Randy's idea to start the Independent Saturday Afternoon Adventure Club (I.S.A.A.C.). If they pool their resources and take turns spending the whole amount, they can each have at least one memorable Saturday afternoon of their own. Before long, I.S.A.A.C. is in operation and every Saturday is definitely one to remember.

Written more than half a century ago, The Saturdays unfolds with all the ripe details of a specific place and period but remains, just the same, a winning, timeless tale. The Saturdays is the first installment of Enright's Melendy Quartet, an engaging and warm series about the close-knit Melendy family and their surprising adventures.
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PlumfieldCH | 29 andra recensioner | Sep 21, 2023 |

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Verk
24
Även av
11
Medlemmar
10,252
Popularitet
#2,315
Betyg
4.2
Recensioner
149
ISBN
161
Språk
5
Favoritmärkt
24
Proberstenar
141

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