(SIZE: 7 x 9 ½ (approximately) PAGES: 195 pages. BACKGROUN...)
SIZE: 7 x 9 ½ (approximately) PAGES: 195 pages. BACKGROUND/DESCRIPTION: First Edition. Charles Scribner's Sons, NY Published September, 1904. ILLUSTRATED NICELY By MAXFIELD PARRISH.
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In this bedtime poem, three fishermen in a wooden shoe ...)
In this bedtime poem, three fishermen in a wooden shoe catch stars in their nets of silver and gold.
Book Details:
• Format: Hardcover
• Publication Date: 9/1/1995
• Pages: 32
• Reading Level: Age 2 and Up
Eugene Field, Sr. was an American writer, specialized in poetry for kids and humorous essays.
Background
Eugene Field was born probably on September 2, 1850, in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. After the death of his mother in 1856, he was raised by a cousin, Mary Field French, in Amherst, Massachusetts. Field's father, attorney Roswell Martin Field, was famous for his representation of Dred Scott, the slave who sued for his freedom.
Education
In 1868 he entered Williams College but left it the next year at his father's death, and later studied at both Knox College and the University of Missouri.
Career
In 1872 Field toured Europe. He then held editorial positions on the St. Joseph Gazette (1875 - 1876), the St. Louis Journal (1876 - 1880), and the Kansas City Times (1880 - 1881), and from 1881 until 1883 he was managing editor of the Denver Tribune, writing the humorous and satirical paragraphs which were collected and published as The Tribune Primer (1882). From 1883 until his death he was on the staff of the Chicago Morning News, for which he produced the column Sharps and Flats. Field died in Chicago on Nov. 4, 1895. His five volumes of prose include dialect sketches, fables, allegories, and fairy tales; his five volumes of verse comprise jingles, serious and semiserious translations and paraphrases, and the poems for and about children.