Evaline Ness
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Description
Evaline Ness (April 24, 1911 – August 12, 1986) was an American commercial artist, illustrator, and author of children's books. She illustrated more than thirty books for young readers and wrote several of her own. She is noted for using a great variety of artistic media and methods. As illustrator of picture books she was one of three Caldecott Medal runners-up each year from 1964 to 1966 and she won the 1967 Medal for Sam, Bangs and Moonshine, which she also wrote. In 1972 she was the U.S. nominee for the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award for children's illustrators.
Books
Fierce the lion
Unhappy with his job at the circus, Fierce the lion asks his friend Isobel to help him find another job.
Marcella's guardian angel
Marcella's guardian angel persuades her to play an interesting games.
This is a paper palace to cut out and color
Book opens to form four palace rooms that can be decorated with furnishings constructed from accompanying patterns.
American colonial paper house
Book opens to form four rooms of an eighteenth-century American house. Includes patterns for and historical notes about the furnishings.
Do you have the time, Lydia?
Lydia is busy with so many projects that she never has time to finish any of them.
The girl and the goatherd
What is the advantage in being the most beautiful girl if you can't be happy too? Better to be ugly and happy.
Long, Broad & Quickeye
A retelling of the Bohemian fairy tale about the prince who frees a lovely princess from the powers of a wicked wizard with the help of three talented companions.
Mister Miacca
Tommy Grimes is seized by Mr. Miacca who captures bad boys and features boy-meat for supper.
Sam, Bangs & Moonshine
Relates the experiences of a little girl as she learns to tell the difference between makebelieve and real life.
A double discovery
Through patience and generosity a Japanese boy makes friends with a wild pony and a monkey with double vision.
Pavo and the Princess
A spoiled princess never cries, and her worried father decides that she needs something of her very own to care for, so he gives her a white peacock named Pavo.
Josefina February
Josefina is very happy when she is unable to find the owner of a baby burro, but she is very sad that she has not sold her basket of fruit and will be unable to buy grandfather his birthday gift.
A gift for Sula Sula
When Mike, the pelican, at last sees the firebird fly, he wonders why he had thought her plain--or himself attractive.
A Pocketful Of Cricket
A boy takes his pet cricket to school where it first disturbs the class with its chirping, but then becomes the show-and-tell attraction.
Kellyburn Braes
Adaptation of a Scottish folk song about a man whose wife was so mean that not even the devil was willing to keep her. Includes notation of the melody.