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Howard Pyle
Howard Pyle was an American illustrator and author, primarily of books for young people. During 1894 he began teaching illustration at the Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry (now Drexel University), and after 1900 he founded his own school of art and illustration named the Howard Pyle School of Illustration Art. The term Brandywine School was later applied to the illustration artists and Wyeth family artists of the Brandywine region by Pitz. Some of his more famous students were N. C. Wyeth, Frank Schoonover, Elenore Abbott, Ethel Franklin Betts, Anna Whelan Betts, Harvey Dunn, Clyde O. DeLand, Philip R. Goodwin, Violet Oakley, Ellen Bernard Thompson Pyle, Olive Rush, Allen Tupper True, and Jessie Willcox Smith. His 1883 classic publication The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood remains in print, and his other books, frequently with medieval European settings, include a four-volume set on King Arthur. He is also well known for his illustrations of pirates, and is credited with creating the now stereotypical modern image of pirate dress. He published an original novel, Otto of the Silver Hand, in 1888. He also illustrated historical and adventure stories for periodicals such as Harper's Weekly and St. Nicholas Magazine. His novel Men of Iron was made into a movie in 1954, The Black Shield of Falworth. Pyle travelled to Florence, Italy to study mural painting during 1910, and died there in 1911 from a kidney infection (Bright's Disease).
Up from the gray rocks, rising sheer and bold and bare, stood the walls and towers of Castle Drachenhausen.
— from Otto of the Silver Hand, 2006
Most acclaimed
Otto of the Silver Hand
2006
In the superstitious and wicked world of twelfth century Germany lives a little boy whose compassion illuminates the path to goodness like a candle lighting the way through the dark coves of an ancient castle. “Poor little Otto’s life [is] a stony and thorny pathway” in which he faces ruthless and powerful villains. Alongside his faithful comrades, who rescue him from a dungeon, Otto learns to overcome strife with “gentleness and love.”Otto’s perilous adventures come to life not only through Howard Pyle’s meticulous descriptions, but also through his renowned medieval illustrations. The folkloric tale of Otto’s maturation from a child with a robber baron father to an adult with his own family will enchant the imagination.
Robin Hood
1973
Geronimo Stilton, cet intellectuel sensible et raffiné qui dirige "L'écho des rongeurs", se propose ici de raconter à ses admirateurs les grands classiques de la littérature pour la jeunesse qui ont bercé son enfance et qui l'ont fait voyager dans des contrées aussi fabuleuses qu'exotiques. Chaque opus de la série fait donc revivre un chef-d'oeuvre littéraire, dont les protagonistes se voient conférer les traits de rongeurs humanisés. Sous ce titre: les aventures épiques de Robin des bois, ce légendaire brigand au coeur d'or qui se fait un honneur de réparer les injustices commises par le prince Jean Sans Terre et le shérif de Nottingham en l'absence du bon roi Richard Coeur de Lion. Révolté de constater que le perfide duo s'enrichit au profit d'un peuple accablé d'impôts et réduit à une existence miséreuse, Robin se réfugie dans la forêt de Sherwood en compagnie de Petit Jean et de frère Tuck, avec l'aide desquels il met sur pied une armée de hors-la-loi qui se fait l'ardente défenderesse des opprimés, détroussant les riches pour redistribuer leurs richesses aux pauvres et aux orphelins. Et ce, en recourant à de savants déguisements et stratagèmes qui attisent la frustration de leurs victimes une fois dévoilés ... Geronimo Stilton raconte les grands classiques de la littérature de jeunesse.
King Arthur and his knights
A collection of King Arthur tales. Author: Henry Frith (1840–1910);Illustrator: Henry C. Pitz/Henry Clarence Pitz (1895-1976). Bibliography: Henry Frith (1840-1910), King Arthur and His Knights (Garden City, NY, USA: Junior Deluxe Editions, 1955). Irish-born civil engineer, translator and author, in England from early adulthood; mostly known for his translations from the French, at least six being of novels by Jules Verne, beginning with Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea (trans 1876). He is credited with a short story of sf interest, "The Balloon of the Future" (May 1885 Cassell's Family Magazine) (see Balloons), and an adaptation, which may be loose, of a tale by Lucien Biart (1829-1897), possibly (but not probably) published initially in Dutch as Unac de Indiaan (1883); it is more likely to be a version of La Frontière indienne (1880) in Biart's Les Voyages Involontaires sequence, published in association with Verne's Voyages Extraordinaires. Frith's translation or version, Unac the Indian: A Tale of Central America (1884), is a juvenile Lost Race tale whose young protagonists discover the eponymous survivor of the Toltecs deep in Mexico.