arndt@lymph.DEC (07/06/85)
Published by Houghton Mifflin, '84. it's a slim but large on content book
of drawings (only fourteen!) brought to a publisher of children's books
over thirty years ago as samples of illustrations for fourteen children's
stories. Each drawing was titled and had a brief sentence about the story
with it. The man, Harris Burdick, promised to come back the next morning
but never showed up and was never heard from again.
The drawings are wonderful and touch a deep well spring of the imagination.
Kids, and adults, can spend a good amount of time just looking at them and
trying to guess what the story might have been about or what it should be.
Let me give you two of my favorites:
1) The Picture - inside what looks like Notre Dame two priests with
arms folded behind their backs look up at a nun seated in a chair suspended
about 25ft in mid air! She sits there quietly with folded hands looking
over their heads.
The title - THE SEVEN CHAIRS
The sentence - "The fifth one ended up in France."
2) The Picture - A man in his living room holding a chair over his
head about to strike a lump under the rug with the chair.
The title - UNDER THE RUG
The sentence - Two weeks passed and it happened again.
Well, I'll leave the rest for you. Anyone else had fun with this book??
Regards,
Ken Arndt