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Peter Sheaf Hersey Newell was born on March 5, 1862 in Bushnell, Illinois, United States. He was the son of George Frederick and Louisa N. Newell.
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Quirky, clever, and marvelously inventive, this book takes the reader into a world of imagination and adventure.Peter Newell utilizes a unique cartoon art form that the reader perceives as an optical illusion. Each illustration is supported by a caption that turns each page into loads of fun. Each page will delight the reader with a new and uniquely illustrated story that tells its tale right-side up and upside down. It provides as much entertainment for adults as it does for the children for whom it was created.Topsys & Turvys Book 2 also available from Tuttle Publishing.
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"Tom Potts was fooling with a gun (Such follies should not be), When—bang! The pesky thing went off most unexpectedly!" Long before Richard Scarry or Dr. Seuss, an American artist delighted a generation of children and their parents with hilarious, topsy-turvy illustrations and slightly subversive tales told in rhyme. This was illustrator/author Peter Newell. Originally published in 1908, The Hole Book remains as profoundly enjoyable and incredibly popular as ever. With humorous text and irresistible drawings, this classic work will delight readers of all ages with the story of Tom Potts' bullet, which leads him through all sorts of unexpected scenes and adventures, each funnier than the last. Peter Newell (1862-1924) began his career as an artist drawing portraits, using crayons as his medium. In his fantastic humor, many believe, is the first appearance of the gentle humor of the absurd which The New Yorker has subsequently developed to such a high level.
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"When Fritz, the Janitor's bad kid, Went snooping in the basement, He found a rock snugly hid Beneath the window casement. He struck a match with one fell swoop; Then, on the concrete kneeling, he lit the rocket and—she—oop! It shot up through the ceiling." Long before Richard Scarry or Dr. Seuss, an American artist delighted a generation of children and their parents with hilarious, topsy-turvy illustrations and slightly subversive tales told in rhyme. This was illustrator/author Peter Newell. Originally published in 1912, The Rocket Book remains as profoundly enjoyable and incredibly popular as ever. This classic work will delight readers of all ages with the story of how a rocket launched from the basement floor of an apartment building and how it interrupts the day. Peter Newell (1862-1924) began his career as an artist drawing portraits, using crayons as his medium. In his fantastic humor, many believe, is the first appearance of the gentle humor of the absurd which The New Yorker has subsequently developed to such a high level.
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Long before Richard Scarry or Dr. Seuss, an American artist delighted a generation of children and their parents with hilarious, topsy-turvy illustrations and slightly subversive tales told in rhyme. This was illustrator/author Peter Newell. Working over eighty years ago, Newell remains as profoundly enjoyableùand incredibly popularùas ever. Tuttle is proud to be reissuing his three classic works, sure to delight the young and old alike. In The Slant Book, a go cart, a newsboy, and the force of gravity make for a most excellent adventure in a busy American town. As an added bonus, the book is actually set on a slant!!
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Richards, F. T. (Frederick Thompson), 1864-1921.... Arthur Burdett Frost (January 17, 1851 – June 22, 1928), usually cited as A. B. Frost, was an American illustrator, graphic artist and comics writer. He was also well known as a painter. Frost's work is well known for its dynamic representation of motion and sequence. Frost is considered one of the great illustrators in the "Golden Age of American Illustration". Frost illustrated over 90 books and produced hundreds of paintings; in addition to his work in illustrations, he is renowned for realistic hunting and shooting prints..... Peter Sheaf Hersey Newell (March 5, 1862 – January 15, 1924) was an American artist and writer. He created picture books and illustrated new editions of many children's books..... John Kendrick Bangs (May 27, 1862 – January 21, 1922) was an American author, humorist, editor and satirist. Biography: He was born in Yonkers, New York. His father Francis Nehemiah Bangs was a lawyer in New York City, as was his brother, Francis S. Bangs.He went to Columbia College from 1880 to 1883 where he became editor of Columbia's literary magazine, Acta Columbia, and contributed short anonymous pieces to humor magazines. After graduation in 1883 with a Bachelor of Philosophy degree in Political Science, Bangs entered Columbia Law School but left in 1884 to become Associate Editor of Life under Edward S. Martin. Bangs contributed many articles and poems to the magazine between 1884 and 1888. During this period, Bangs published his first books. In 1888 Bangs left Life to work at Harper's Magazine, Harper's Bazaar and Harper's Young People, though he continued to contribute to Life. From 1889 to 1900 he held the title of Editor of the Departments of Humor for all three Harper's magazines and from 1899 to 1901 served as active editor of Harper's Weekly. Bangs also served for a short time (January–June 1889) as the first editor of Munsey's Magazine and became editor of the American edition of the Harper-owned Literature from January to November 1899. In 1894, Bangs ran for the office of mayor of Yonkers, New York, but was defeated. He also was a member of the Board of Education in Yonkers. He left Harper & Brothers in 1901 and became editor of the New Metropolitan magazine in 1903. In 1904 he was appointed editor of Puck, perhaps the foremost American humor magazine of its day. In this period, he revived his earlier interest in drama. In 1906 he switched his focus to the lecture circuit. During the period between 1901 and 1906, Mr. Bangs was known to have spent at least parts of his summers at the Profile House in Franconia, New Hampshire. He owned one of the 20 connected cottages adjacent to the large hotel, which he sold to Cornelius Newton Bliss in August 1906. As a satirical writer, he was also known in the "Profile Cottage" circles as a jokester and prankster and was frequently the jovial topic of hotel guests and cottage owners alike. In 1918, he lectured for the Young Men's Christian Association and allied troops on the battle front in France during World War In 1886, he married Agnes L. Hyde, with whom he had three sons. Agnes died in 1903. Bangs then married Mary Blakeney Gray of New York in 1904. In 1907 they moved from Yonkers to Ogunquit, Maine. John Kendrick Bangs died from stomach cancer in 1922 at age fifty-nine, in Atlantic City, New Jersey...................
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The Monster is an 1898 novella by American author Stephen Crane (1871–1900). The story takes place in the small, fictional town of Whilomville, New York. An African-American coachman named Henry Johnson, who is employed by the town's physician, Dr. Trescott, becomes horribly disfigured after he saves Trescott's son from a fire. When Henry is branded a "monster" by the town's residents, Trescott vows to shelter and care for him, resulting in his family's exclusion from the community. The fictional town of Whilomville, which is used in 14 other Crane stories, was based on Port Jervis, New York, where Crane lived with his family for a few years during his youth. It is thought that he took inspiration from several local men who were similarly disfigured, although modern critics have made numerous connections between the story and the 1892 lynching in Port Jervis of an African-American man named Robert Lewis. A study of prejudice, fear and isolation in a small town, the novella was first published in Harper's Magazine in August 1898. A year later it was included in The Monster and Other Stories—the last collection of Crane's work to be published during his lifetime. After being admonished by his father, Dr. Ned Trescott, for damaging a peony while playing in his family's yard, young Jimmie Trescott visits his family's coachman, Henry Johnson. Henry, who is described as "a very handsome negro", "known to be a light, a weight, and an eminence in the suburb of the town",20 is friendly toward Jimmie. Later that evening Henry dresses smartly and saunters through town—inciting catcalls from friends and ridicule from the local white men—on his way to call on the young Bella Farragut, who is extremely taken with him. That same evening, a large crowd gathers in the park to hear a band play. Suddenly, the nearby factory whistle blows to alert the townspeople of a fire in the second district of the town; men gather hose-carts and head toward the blaze that is quickly spreading throughout Dr. Trescott's house. Mrs. Trescott is saved by a neighbor, but cannot locate Jimmie, who is trapped inside. Henry appears from the crowd and rushes into the house in search of the boy, finding him unharmed in his bedroom. Unable to retreat the way he came, Henry carries Jimmie, wrapped in a blanket, to the doctor's laboratory and the hidden stairway that leads outside. He discovers the fire has blocked this way out as well and collapses beside Dr. Trescott's desk. A row of nearby jars shatters from the heat, spilling molten chemicals upon Henry's upturned face... Peter Sheaf Hersey Newell (March 5, 1862 – January 15, 1924) was an American artist and author.illustrator
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Peter Sheaf Hersey Newell was born on March 5, 1862 in Bushnell, Illinois, United States. He was the son of George Frederick and Louisa N. Newell.
Peter studied in an art school but he may be said to have been largely self-taught. In 1882 he studied at the Art Students' League in New York. He tolerated academic training only three months, believing that the value of his work--its originality--would be sacrificed by adapting it to accepted methods.
In spite of an early predilection for sketching and caricaturing, at the age of sixteen Newell attempted to work in a cigar factory. This experiment lasted three months and was followed by an apprenticeship to a maker of crayon portraits in Jacksonville, Illinois. He made enlargements, thereby gaining his first knowledge of drawing
His work was free from the prevailing influences in illustration and he evolved a definitely original technique.
He sent a humorous drawing to Harper's Bazaar with a note asking the editor whether it showed talent. The reply came back: "No talent indicated, " but a check was enclosed.
In 1893, using negro subjects in his new flat-tone technique, he achieved success with Harper's Magazine (August 1893) and sudden popularity by an amusing bit of naïveté: "Wild Flowers. " He contributed full-page illustrations to holiday numbers of Harper's Weekly and Harper's Bazaar, continued to do comics with captions of his own invention, and then turned this knack to making children's books, starting with Topsys and Turvys (1893). This reversible little volume resulted from the distressing occasion upon which he discovered one of his children scrutinizing a picture-book upside down. He determined to produce a book which could be looked at from any angle. Thereafter he illustrated contemporary fiction, notably: John Kendrick Bangs's A House-Boat on the Styx (1896) and The Pursuit of the House-Boat (1897), and in 1901 tried his hand at Alice in Wonderland. The appearance of substitutes for Sir John Tenniel's inimitable illustrations was attended by considerable controversy. Newell defended the new edition in an article in Harper's Monthly Magazine (October 1901), in which he asserted that any distinctly personal reaction to character justifies a new version of interpretation.
Considered by his contemporaries to be an illustrator of ability and conspicuous originality, Newell has survived by reason of his good humor rather than on grounds of artistic merit. Whenever his work lacks the animation of wit its execution appears unimpressive. The flat decorative use of wash does not conceal an inadequacy of drawing and composition. His strength lay in whimsical interpretation of nonsense set forth in simple and direct terms. He was inventive rather than imaginative, giving a certain zest to his own cartoons which is not felt in his illustrations of the ideas of others.
He died in his sixty-second year at Little Neck, New York.
("Tom Potts was fooling with a gun (Such follies should no...)
("When Fritz, the Janitor's bad kid, Went snooping in the ...)
( Quirky, clever, and marvelously inventive, this book ta...)
(The Monster is an 1898 novella by American author Stephen...)
( Long before Richard Scarry or Dr. Seuss, an American ar...)
(Richards, F. T. (Frederick Thompson), 1864-1921.... Arthu...)
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Newell married Leona Dow Ashcraft on February 5, 1884. They had two daughters.