Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss: How an Unlikely Couple Found Love, Dodged the Fbi, and Transformed Children's Literature

by Philip Nel

Book Overview

Winner of the Children's Literature Association's 2014 Honor Book Award

Crockett Johnson (born David Johnson Leisk, 1906-1975) and Ruth Krauss (1901-1993) were a husband-and-wife team that created such popular children's books as The Carrot Seed and How to Make an Earthquake. Separately, Johnson created the enduring children's classic Harold and the Purple Crayon and the groundbreaking comic strip Barnaby. Krauss...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1617036366
• ISBN13: 9781617036361
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.4"