她曾先后担任过儿童书画家协会会长、美国科幻作家协会会长,被美国《新闻周刊》誉为“美国的安徒生”和“20世纪的伊索”。她的儿童书代表作Emperorand The Kite获得1968年凯迪克银奖。而本书为她赢得1988年凯迪克金奖。她说:“我只讲值得讲的故事''。
JANE YOLEN, Philomel author of Touch Magic and Neptune Rising,is one of today's most versatile and distinguished writers of booksfor young readers, acclaimed for her poetry, humorous fiction,fantasy and folk tales, and novels for young adults.
Owl Moon has been a particular pleasure for her to write, since herhusband, David Stemple, frequently went owling on winter nightswith their three children, Heidi,Adam, and Jason, near their ruralMassa-chusetts home with the same anticipation and excitement asthe characters in this story.
Owling is a familiar pastime to natural-ist-writer JOHN SCHOENHERRas well.Renowned illustrator of over forty books,including theclassic Rascal, Julie of the Wolves, Gentle Ben, and Dune,Schoenherr was educated at the Art Students League and PrattInstitute. In recent years he has primarily painted and has beenfeatured in galleries across the country.
Schoenherr was enticed back to illustrat-ing a children's book bythe story Owl Moon,which reminded him of his own nighttime walkswith his children, Jennifer and Ian. Indeed, the farm featured inOwl Moon is the Schoenherr farm, and the shadowed trees and trailsare landmarks past which he and his family trudged on winter nightssearching for the magnificent and elusive owl.
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