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Hilda Van Stockum (1908–2006)

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Verk av Hilda Van Stockum

The Winged Watchman (1962) 1,100 exemplar
The Borrowed House (1975) 355 exemplar
The Mitchells: Five for Victory (1945) 254 exemplar
The Cottage at Bantry Bay (1966) 227 exemplar
Canadian Summer (1948) 217 exemplar
Friendly Gables (1960) 191 exemplar
Pegeen (1941) 177 exemplar
Francie on the Run (1996) 163 exemplar
Mogo's Flute (1966) 108 exemplar
Andries (1998) 63 exemplar
King Oberon's Forest (1957) 50 exemplar
Kersti and Saint Nicholas (1940) 42 exemplar
Penengro (1972) 22 exemplar
Gerrit and the Organ (1943) 18 exemplar
Rufus Round and Round (1973) 18 exemplar
Little Old Bear (1962) 12 exemplar
Patsy and the Pup (2009) 9 exemplar
Jeremy Bear 2 exemplar
New Baby is Lost 1 exemplar

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Namn enligt folkbokföringen
Marlin, Hilda Gerarda van Stockum
Födelsedag
1908-02-08
Avled
2006-11-01
Begravningsplats
Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England, UK
Kön
female
Nationalitet
Netherlands
Födelseort
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Bostadsorter
Dublin, Ireland
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Washington, D.C., USA
Montréal, Québec, Canada
Paris, France
Geneva, Switzerland (visa alla 7)
Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England, UK
Utbildning
Irish Academy of Art
Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunst
Yrken
artist
illustrator
children's book author
translator (of books from Dutch)
painter
Relationer
Millay, Edna St. Vincent (aunt)
Boissevain, Charles (grandfather)
Agent
John Tepper Marlin (executor)
Jack Sharpe (Bethlehem Books)
Kort biografi
Hilda van Stockum was born in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and grew up there, near Amsterdam, and in Ireland, the only child of Capt. Bram van Stockum, an officer in the Dutch Royal Navy, and his wife Olga Boissevain.
Her maternal grandfather Charles Boissevain was an editor of the Algemeen Handelsblad, an influential Dutch newspaper. Hilda began writing as a child. She attended art school in Amsterdam and later in Dublin, where she met her future husband, Ervin Ross "Spike" Marlin, a friend of her brother Willem van Stockum, later an important mathematician. The couple married in 1932 and had six children who featured in many of her books.

By 1935, the family was living in Washington, D.C., where Marlin worked for the Social Security Administration. Later Hilda and the children accompanied him to other assignments in Ireland and London.
She translated books from the Dutch, worked as a freelance children's book illustrator, and wrote a dozen of her own children's books, beginning with A Day on Skates (1934), which won a Newbery Honor. Over the next four decades, she produced a book a year. She memorialized her brother Willem, who was killed piloting a bomber over France in World War II, in her book The Mitchells (1945). Perhaps her best known work was The Winged Watchman (1962), based on a true story about the Dutch Resistance in World War II. In the 1960s and 1970s, Hilda began concentrating on more ambitious painting projects and shows of her work were held at galleries in Dublin, Geneva, Ottawa, and Washington. In 1993, her still life "Pears in a Copper Pot" appeared on an Irish postage stamp as part of a series honoring contemporary art.

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An exciting story set in Ireland in which an orphan, Rory, is adopted by a couple because he resembles their dead son. He runs away to escape from this uncomfortable situation, and meets and then lives with a group of gypsies.
 
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PlumfieldCH | Oct 15, 2023 |
Chosen as a Newbery Honor Book in 1935 - the other titles to be so honored that year include Elizabeth Seeger's Pageant of Chinese History and Constance Rourke's Davy Crocket, while the medal winner was Monica Shannon's Dobry - this delightful tale opens one cold January morning in the small Dutch village of Elst, in the province of Friesland. Nine-year-old twin siblings Evert and Afke had been longing for snow, and their wish had been granted in the night. The delights didn't end there however, as they soon learned at school, where Teacher informed them that he had permission to take the entire class on an all-day skating trip to the nearby town of Snaek. The day itself provided an entertaining series of experiences and adventures, from drinking hot cocoa at one of the booths set up along the canals, to seeing a real artist at work, painting a winter scene. When Evert fell through the ice, shy Simon came to his rescue, winning the admiration of all. But it was only when he joined Evert, Jan and Okke in their misadventure in the church bell tower, once the class had arrived in Snaek, that he truly cemented his friendship with the more popular Evert. After much excitement, the class finds its way back to Elst, having spent a joyful day on skates...

Published in 1934, A Day on Skates: The Story of a Dutch Picnic was author/artist Hilda van Stockum's very first book, and was based upon her childhood in the Netherlands. The edition I read was a Bethlehem Books reprint from 2007, and it included a brief introduction from van Stockum, written in 1994 for an earlier reprint. I was glad to read this introduction, which provided a brief bit of background to the writing of the story and the creation of the artwork, but was also glad that the original foreword, written by poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, the aunt-in-law of van Stockum, was reproduced on the back cover, so that I could read that as well. The story itself is simply delightful, full of incident and fun, but utterly lacking "drama," in the contemporary social conflict sense. The artwork, whether the lines drawings sprinkled throughout, or the full-color plates, was utterly charming, and added to my reading pleasure immeasurably. I never encountered this one as a child, and I now regret it, as I think it would have been a favorite. It reminded me (inevitably) of Hans Brinker; or, The Silver Skates, given the setting and theme, but it has been so many years since I read the latter that I am not sure how it compares. Perhaps I'll have to track it down, and reread it, in order to see. I will certainly need to track down more from van Stockum, and that is surely a ringing endorsement!

Although formatted like a picture-book, A Day on Skates: The Story of a Dutch Picnic is actually a heavily illustrated chapter-book, suitable to children with the attention span for longer stories, and for youngsters getting going with longer fiction. Wholeheartedly recommended!
… (mer)
 
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AbigailAdams26 | 2 andra recensioner | Aug 6, 2021 |
In Holland during the German occupation, a family living in and taking care of a windmill struggle to make ends meet while also helping those with even less. The youngest son discovers a downed American pilot and helps him hide until his family can help get him into allied territory. So many children's books of a certain era are set in WWII Europe and explore the hardships therein, which is understandable, but it's easy to get bogged down in such an embarrassment of riches. This one hits somewhere in the middle of the pile - not exactly weak, but not exactly outstanding, either.… (mer)
 
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electrascaife | 4 andra recensioner | Apr 29, 2019 |
Yes, cute enough. However, utterly predictable, simple story of children who are having too much fun to stay completely safe, hence the thin plot of a series of adventures. On the other hand, for its time, probably a special book. As Edna St. Vincent Millay says her introduction, thank goodness it's not a syrupy moral fable, featuring dull... tiresome... Miss Good [and] Master Naughty." The children are good, but not unbearably so. And the sexism is awful, but apt for the time."
 
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Cheryl_in_CC_NV | 2 andra recensioner | Jun 6, 2016 |

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Medlemmar
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Betyg
4.0
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ISBN
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