The contest / [print] Nonny Hogrogian
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Greenwillow Books ; Division of William Morrow and Company, Incorporated, (c)1976.Description: 32 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0688800424
- 0688840426
- 9780688840426
- Thieves -- Juvenile fiction
- Contests -- Juvenile fiction
- Dreams -- Juvenile fiction
- Betrothal -- Juvenile fiction
- Betrayal -- Juvenile fiction
- Love
- Folklore -- Armenia -- Juvenile fiction
- Folklore -- Armenia -- Juvenile literature
- Folklore -- Armenia
- Armenia -- Juvenile fiction
- Kindergarten
- Grade one
- Grade two
- Grade three
- PZ8.1.H716.C668 1976
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- Caldecott Honor Book, 1977.
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | |
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Juvenile Book (10-day checkout) | G. Allen Fleece Library Caldecott Collection - Second Floor | Fiction | PZ8.1.H647.C668 1976 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | Caldecott Honor, 1977 | 31923001903083 |
Art techniques used: Armenian themed colorful drawings in colored pencil.
Includes an Armenian pronounciation guide (t.p. verso).
Some illustrations are within decorative, patterned borders.
An Armenian folktale about two robbers courting the same girl.
Kindergarten. Grade one. Grade two. Grade three. https://www.amazon.com/Contest-Nonny-Hogrogian/dp/0688840426
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Nonny Hogrogian has long been a favorite children's book illustrator. She has twice been awarded the Caldecott medal for "the most distinguished picture book of the year":in 1966 for Always Room for One More and again in 1972 for One Fine Day, which she wrote as well as illustrated. Among the many outstanding books she has to her credit are Poems Here and Now (edited by David Kherdian), Handmade Secret Hiding Places, Rooster Brother, Once There Was and Was Not (retold by Virginia Tashjian), and About Wise Men and Simpletons: Twelve Tales from Grimm (translated by Elizabeth Shub). As in The Contest, she has found inspiration for a number of her books in her Armenian heritage. She was born in New York City and is a graduate of Hunter College, where she majored in art. She is married to the poet David Kherdian (whose books she often illustrates) and they live in upstate New York. Nonny Hogrogian has long been a favorite children's book illustrator. She has twice been awarded the Caldecott medal for "the most distinguished picture book of the year":in 1966 for Always Room for One More and again in 1972 for One Fine Day, which she wrote as well as illustrated. Among the many outstanding books she has to her credit are Poems Here and Now (edited by David Kherdian), Handmade Secret Hiding Places, Rooster Brother, Once There Was and Was Not (retold by Virginia Tashjian), and About Wise Men and Simpletons: Twelve Tales from Grimm (translated by Elizabeth Shub). As in The Contest, she has found inspiration for a number of her books in her Armenian heritage. She was born in New York City and is a graduate of Hunter College, where she majored in art. She is married to the poet David Kherdian (whose books she often illustrates) and they live in upstate New York. https://www.amazon.com/Contest-Armenian-Folktale-Nonny-Hogrogian/dp/B00412OH02/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=the+contest+an+Armenian+folk+tale&qid=1572545356&sr=8-1
Caldecott Honor Book, 1977.
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