Artemisia and Algernon
Autor Jean Duce Palmer Ilustrat de Sylvia Racken Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 mar 2027 – vârsta până la 10 ani
Reflecting, after a visit one day, it occurred to the writer that her great granddaughter's own name had an interesting rhythm and she recited 'Artemisia Belanger'. The next line quickly followed: 'Lost her favourite toy one day, ' and the poem took a course of its own.
The author read the poem to her on her next visit and looking up at the end was surprised to see her little face was troubled. The writer thought she had produced a happy ending since the bear had chosen to stay with Artemisia rather than the crow who'd flown off with him. But the last line had the rejected crow sadly flying away. 'But there's another Algernon at the toy store. Crow could buy it, ' Artemisia said. And so, Palmer continued the poem to a happy ending. Crow also got a bear.
In the next few months, she illustrated the poem. At ninety-nine her fingers were clumsy and arthritic. The drawings were also clumsy, but Artemisia enjoyed them and showed her great grandmother her own illustrations for the poem. At age a hundred and one, with enormous help from her granddaughter Sylvia, Artemisia' artist mother, Palmer is proud to have copies available for family, friends, and the wider public.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781927599655
ISBN-10: 1927599652
Pagini: 16
Dimensiuni: 222 x 286 x 2 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Editura: DC Books
ISBN-10: 1927599652
Pagini: 16
Dimensiuni: 222 x 286 x 2 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Editura: DC Books
Notă biografică
Jean Duce Palmer was born on April 17, 1923. She is 103 years old and has written a children's book, an illustrated poem, Artemisia and Algernon.
Since 1943, Palmer has enjoyed a distinguished career as a script writer. She has written over ninety radio plays for children, all produced by Alberta School Broadcasts (available in the Provincial Archives of Alberta). In her mid-nineties, Palmer wrote a children's play, Miss Bruce's War. It was produced at the 2016 Ottawa Fringe Festival and was nominated for the Capitol Critics Award.
It was 1942 - wartime - and Alberta-born Jean Duce was only eighteen when she taught in a one-room school in a German-speaking community in the Cypress Hills of Alberta and kept a diary of her experiences. The following summer, while attending the Banff School of Fine Arts as a drama student, Jean wrote a one-act play - Airman's Forty-Eight - which was produced in 1943 at the Banff School and had many subsequent performances in wartime Alberta.
Jean Duce Palmer, by then newly married, went on to write radio scripts for Alberta School Broadcasts and continued as a script writer after she moved to Europe in 1952, accompanying her husband as he was posted to various Canadian embassies as a medical officer. She learned to speak Dutch and Greek during these postings and while in London, earned a Diploma in Art History from the University of London.
On returning to Canada in 1973, she obtained an Honours B.A. in Art History from Carleton University and taught art history for the Ottawa Board of Education, until her husband's posting to Kenya took her abroad once more. Finally retiring in Ottawa, Jean worked on volunteer committees to preserve heritage architecture and received the Ontario Heritage Foundation Award in 1999. In 2002, she was awarded the Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal for her work with the National Portrait Gallery in Kenya, and for architectural heritage conservation in Ottawa. She has worked as a docent at the National Portrait Gallery of Canada for over a decade and in her nineties, she continues to give occasional talks on the art works in the Collection.
As a writer-in-residence at the Banff Centre during April of 2014, Ms. Palmer wrote a new play - Miss Bruce's War - based on her wartime diary of 1942. This work was developed at the Banff Centre as an adjunct to Playwrights' Colony. Both the original one-person play, as well as the revised text edited in 2016 for the Ottawa Fringe Festival are now held in the archives of the National Gallery of Canada, The Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, and the Provincial Archives of Alberta.
Since 1943, Palmer has enjoyed a distinguished career as a script writer. She has written over ninety radio plays for children, all produced by Alberta School Broadcasts (available in the Provincial Archives of Alberta). In her mid-nineties, Palmer wrote a children's play, Miss Bruce's War. It was produced at the 2016 Ottawa Fringe Festival and was nominated for the Capitol Critics Award.
It was 1942 - wartime - and Alberta-born Jean Duce was only eighteen when she taught in a one-room school in a German-speaking community in the Cypress Hills of Alberta and kept a diary of her experiences. The following summer, while attending the Banff School of Fine Arts as a drama student, Jean wrote a one-act play - Airman's Forty-Eight - which was produced in 1943 at the Banff School and had many subsequent performances in wartime Alberta.
Jean Duce Palmer, by then newly married, went on to write radio scripts for Alberta School Broadcasts and continued as a script writer after she moved to Europe in 1952, accompanying her husband as he was posted to various Canadian embassies as a medical officer. She learned to speak Dutch and Greek during these postings and while in London, earned a Diploma in Art History from the University of London.
On returning to Canada in 1973, she obtained an Honours B.A. in Art History from Carleton University and taught art history for the Ottawa Board of Education, until her husband's posting to Kenya took her abroad once more. Finally retiring in Ottawa, Jean worked on volunteer committees to preserve heritage architecture and received the Ontario Heritage Foundation Award in 1999. In 2002, she was awarded the Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal for her work with the National Portrait Gallery in Kenya, and for architectural heritage conservation in Ottawa. She has worked as a docent at the National Portrait Gallery of Canada for over a decade and in her nineties, she continues to give occasional talks on the art works in the Collection.
As a writer-in-residence at the Banff Centre during April of 2014, Ms. Palmer wrote a new play - Miss Bruce's War - based on her wartime diary of 1942. This work was developed at the Banff Centre as an adjunct to Playwrights' Colony. Both the original one-person play, as well as the revised text edited in 2016 for the Ottawa Fringe Festival are now held in the archives of the National Gallery of Canada, The Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, and the Provincial Archives of Alberta.