Writers and Their Pets: True Stories of Famous Authors and Their Animal Friends

Discover how animals influenced twenty of the world’s most beloved authors, from Charles Dickens to J. K. Rowling.

Did you know that a dog saved Pablo Neruda’s life? Or that Mark Twain had a cat named Bambino? Or that Edgar Allan Poe wrote with a cat on his shoulders?

Writers and Their Pets tells these stories and many more that will delight not only children but also literary experts, history lovers, and animal enthusiasts. Each short chapter focuses on one author’s life, using simple and entertaining text to weave tales of the pets that affected the lives and works of these writers.

Writers and Their Pets features a diverse list of both male and female international authors, from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, including Beatrix Potter, E. B. White, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Kurt Vonnegut, Maurice Sendak, Ernest Hemingway, and more.

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Writers and Their Pets: True Stories of Famous Authors and Their Animal Friends

Discover how animals influenced twenty of the world’s most beloved authors, from Charles Dickens to J. K. Rowling.

Did you know that a dog saved Pablo Neruda’s life? Or that Mark Twain had a cat named Bambino? Or that Edgar Allan Poe wrote with a cat on his shoulders?

Writers and Their Pets tells these stories and many more that will delight not only children but also literary experts, history lovers, and animal enthusiasts. Each short chapter focuses on one author’s life, using simple and entertaining text to weave tales of the pets that affected the lives and works of these writers.

Writers and Their Pets features a diverse list of both male and female international authors, from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, including Beatrix Potter, E. B. White, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Kurt Vonnegut, Maurice Sendak, Ernest Hemingway, and more.

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Writers and Their Pets: True Stories of Famous Authors and Their Animal Friends

Writers and Their Pets: True Stories of Famous Authors and Their Animal Friends

Writers and Their Pets: True Stories of Famous Authors and Their Animal Friends

Writers and Their Pets: True Stories of Famous Authors and Their Animal Friends

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Overview

Discover how animals influenced twenty of the world’s most beloved authors, from Charles Dickens to J. K. Rowling.

Did you know that a dog saved Pablo Neruda’s life? Or that Mark Twain had a cat named Bambino? Or that Edgar Allan Poe wrote with a cat on his shoulders?

Writers and Their Pets tells these stories and many more that will delight not only children but also literary experts, history lovers, and animal enthusiasts. Each short chapter focuses on one author’s life, using simple and entertaining text to weave tales of the pets that affected the lives and works of these writers.

Writers and Their Pets features a diverse list of both male and female international authors, from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, including Beatrix Potter, E. B. White, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Kurt Vonnegut, Maurice Sendak, Ernest Hemingway, and more.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781982694425
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Publication date: 06/11/2019
Product dimensions: 5.80(w) x 5.60(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range: 8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Kathleen Krull is well known for her innovative, award-winning nonfiction for young readers, which includes the successful Lives of... series. Kathleen Krull lives in San Diego, CA. Visit her at www.kathleenkrull.com and facebook.com/kathleen.krull


Violet Lemay is an award‑winning author and illustrator whose children’s books include 100 Pablo PicassosMy Foodie ABC, Artists and Their Pets, and the Local Baby series, which includes New York Baby and Beach Babies. Violet worked as a professor of illustration at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) in Georgia. Her illustrations have been published by Penguin, Holt, HarperCollins, McGraw-Hill, Scholastic, and Highlights magazine. Violet currently lives in Auckland, New Zealand.
 

Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Edgar Allan Poe
Charles Dickens
Mark Twain
Edith Wharton
Beatrix Potter
Gertrude Stein
Virginia Woolf
Dorothy Parker
Marguerite Henry
William Faulkner
E.B. White
Ernest Hemingway
John Steinbeck
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Pablo Neruda
Kurt Vonnegut
Flannery O’Connor
Maurice Sendak
Alice Walker
J.K. Rowling
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