~Roald Dahl~

Roald Dahl was born on 13 September 1916 
and he died on 23 November 1990
He was a British novelist, short story writer
and screenwriter, born in Wales of Norwegian parents.
After service in the Royal Air Force during
the Second World War, in which he became a flying ace,
he rose to prominence in the 1940s with works
for both children and adults, and became one
of the world's bestselling authors.
His short stories are known for their unexpected endings,
and his children's books for their unsentimental,
often very dark humour. Some of his most
popular books include The Twits,
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,
James and the Giant Peach, Matilda,
The Witches and The BFG.

Roald Dahl's story "The Devious Bachelor"
was illustrated by Frederick Siebel when it was
published in Collier's (September 1953).

Roald Dahl was born in 1916, to Norwegian parents,
Harald Dahl and Sofie Magdalene Dahl (née Hesselberg).
Dahl's father had moved from Norway and
settled in Cardiff in the 1880s,
and his mother came over to marry his father in
about 1910. Roald was named after the polar explorer
Roald Amundsen, a national hero in Norway at the time.
He spoke Norwegian at home with his parents
and sisters. Dahl and his sisters were christened
at the Norwegian Church, Cardiff,
where their parents worshipped.

Throughout his childhood and adolescent years,
Dahl spent his summer holidays with his mother's family
in their native Norway, mostly enjoying the fjords.
His childhood and first job selling kerosene
in Midsomer Norton and surrounding villages in
Somerset are the subject of his autobiographical work,
Boy: Tales of Childhood.

List of works, Children’s Stories
-The Gremlins (1943)
-James and the Giant Peach (1961)
-Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964)
-The Enormous Crocodile (1978)
-George's Marvellous Medicine (1981)
-The BFG (1982)
-The Witches (1983)
-The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me (1985)
-Matilda (1988)
-The Vicar of Nibbleswicke (1991)
-The Minpins (1991)

This great little Museum in Buckinghamshire, England
has two fun and fact-packed biographical galleries and
a fantabulous Story Centre. In Boy and Solo,
visitors can learn about the events that
shaped Roald Dahl as a writer, from his illicit
motorbike outings at school to his time
as a World War Two fighter pilot.
In the Story Centre, visitors can get creative
with plot, character and language and
discover how writers from J.K. Rowling
to Benjamin Zephaniah write. Visitors can also
explore a replica of Roald Dahl's famous Writing Hut,
sit in his writing chair and get
some gloriumptious story ideas. 
 

Roald dahl is geboren op 13 september 1916
in Llandaff, Wales
en overleden op 23 november 1990

Biografie:
De ouders van Roald Dahl kwamen uit Noorwegen.
Zijn vader stierf toen Roald nog maar net
4jaar oud was. Na de kostschool wilde hij
niet verder studeren, hij wilde reizen.
Hij kreeg een baan bij Shell en kreeg werk in Afrika.
Daar nam hij na het uitbreken van de Tweede Wereldoorlog
dienst bij de Engelse luchtmacht.
Na een ernstig vliegtuigongeluk in de woestijn lag
hij zes maanden in het ziekenhuis en kon niet meer vliegen.
Hij kreeg een baan in de Verenigde Staten, waar hij
met het schrijven van verhalen begon.
In 1943 schreef hij zijn eerste kinderboek al,
maar het duurde lang voor er een volgend kinderboek kwam.
In 1953 trouwde Roald met de Hollywood
actrice Patricia Neal, ze kregen vijf kinderen,
waarvan er een al jong stierf. Door zijn kinderen
begon hij weer kinderboeken te schrijven. Later
hertrouwde hij In 1983 met Felicity ‘Liccy’ Crosland.
De laatste dertig jaar van zijn
leven woonde hij in een oud boerenhuis
in een dorp niet ver van Londen.

 
Roald Dahl is zowel populair bij kinderen
als bij volwassenen; hij schreef kinderboeken
en boeken en verhalen voor volwassenen.
Zijn kinderboeken werden zowel door de Griffeljury
als door de Kinderjury verschillende malen bekroond.
Zijn kinderboeken zijn fantastisch,
grappig en soms griezelig.

Er is een Roald Dahl museum
in Buckinghamshire England.
Het museum is een fantasierijke en
bovenal stimulerende plek voor kinderen en volwassenen,
waar je meer leert over Roald Dahl en zijn werk.
Het museum werd gebouwd in het huis waar
hij met zijn vrouw en kinderen woonde (Gipsy house),
temidden van het dorpje en de mensen
die hem bijzonder inspireerden.

 
Roald Dahl woonde het grootste deel van zijn
leven in 'Gipsy House' in Great Missenden,
vlak bij Londen.
Hij ligt begraven op een heuvel tegenover 'Gipsy House'

Bij zijn huis stond een tuinhuisje,
waarin hij zijn boeken schreef, in een hele oude
stoel met een plank op zijn knieën.

 
Do you want to know more about Roald Dahl?
Als je meer over Roald dahl wilt weten?
Click click on the links below…
www.roalddahl.com/

Roald Dahl's Museum

Take a look inside his Writing’s Shed

Nederlandse site over Roald Dahl

~Woman Seated at a Table by a Window~

 

As I sit at my kitchen table,
I gaze out upon the garden.
Peace fills my soul.
The warm breeze blows softly in my face.
The air filled with the smells
and delights of spring.
God's beauty has once again
refreshed my innermost parts.

The loveliness of the morning,
the freshness of spring,
the kindness of the warming sun,
all drawing our eyes once again
to our Creator.

~Author unknown~

~Helena Nelson-Reed~Illustrator

Helena Nelson-Reed has long been fascinated
by myth, fairy tales, legends,
and mysticism as well as history, cultures,
and spiritual paths different from her own.
Born in Seattle, Washington, she grew up
in Marin County and Napa Valley, California,
but eventually made the heartland her home,
residing in Illinois.

Helena Nelson-Reed is sinds lange tijd gefascineerd
door mythen, sprookjes, legendes en mystiek en
geschiedenis, culturen,
en spirituele paden die afwijken van haar eigen.
Geboren in Seattle, Washington, groeide ze op in
Marin County en Napa Valley, Californië,
maar uiteindelijk werd Illinois haar thuis.
  Helena volgde de American Academy of Art school,
en bestudeerde grafische kunsten. 
Ze keerde terug naar de universiteit later in het leven.
Om meer te zien van Helena’s werk 
kun je haar bezoeken op:
http://helenanelsonreed.com



In equal parts the blood of Wales, Ireland,
Sweden and the Pawnee nations flows in her veins.
Helena attended the American Academy of Art
for two years studying architectural rendering,
lettering, and life drawing.
She has no fine art training, considers herself
self taught, and has no affiliations in the art world.
Technique and subject matter emerge
from life experience, vision, dream,
and an innate love of creating.

She prefers natural surroundings and the
company of animals to that of most people,
craves the wild beauty of lonely rocky shorelines,
mountains, rivers, lush forests and wide open plains.

 

To see more of Helena’s work, visit her at
http://www.fine-art-studios.com/intro.html

Helena's werk is geïnspireerd door de traditionele
Native American en de Keltische cultuur,
spiritualiteit en mythe. Over haar beelden, zegt ze:
"Ik ben een gewoon mens. Mijn beelden communiceren
met een persoonlijke interpretatie van archetype,
droom, en levenservaring. Het vloeit voort uit het hart,
vaak creëren ze zich bijna zelf als ik ernaar kijk”

~Miss You~

A lonely fairy lass,
waiting for her love,
who is far away.

~Jacqeline Collen Tarrolly~

~Jacqueline Collen-Tarrolly~ Illustrator

"I have this theory. I believe that when
the world of Mortal man and the world of Faery
separated and the faerys left, horses were
faery creatures that chose to stay behind with us."
~ Jacqueline Collen-Tarrolly, "E Television" ~

  
Jacqueline Collen-Tarrolly is born in Febr. 27 1968 
and grew up in Colorado,
on a small non-working ranch,
outside a very small town. She left the
ranch at 17 for college, where she was
discovered by a modeling agent and
sent to France. She worked for several years
as a model, and then an actress.
During this time, she was married for 8 yrs
to a musician, and they had a son.
After her divorce, she moved to Los Angeles,
where she still lives with her second husband
(as of March 17, 2001), her son, who is now 16
(as of 2006), and her new daughter
who was born in November, 2005.

Jacqueline has from 10 to 20 animals. 
She has horses and dogs and
one funny tutle named Tulip
and usually a few wild rahab animals
around of various species at any given time.

Besides her artwork, Jacqueline owns an all
natural bath and body products company
that she started called Medieval.



Do you want to know more about her?
http://www.toadstoolfarmart.com/

"Perfect Moment"

I hold a Perfect Moment,
treasured deep within my heart.

And so I keep you close to me
though fate keeps us apart.

A few dark nights, a tiny space,
all white and fairy lit

Became the safest place of all,
your arms the warmth in it.

The whisper of your breath as
it entangled in my hair.

Was the only way to tell each other
just how much we care.

I see you in my dreams and
it's my armour against time.

But I hold this Perfect Moment.
Just one moment you were mine.

~Frances Tyrrell~

Frances Tyrrell lives and works in
Oakville, Ontario, Canada.
Her finely illustrated picture books are
collected by children and adults.
Her original watercolours are in private and
public collections. She has twice been shortlisted for
the Governor-General's Award for illustration.



A lover of the magical world of illustrated books
since childhood, Frances now takes great pleasure
in creating beautiful books for to-day's children.
She gratefully acknowledges her teachers,
the creators of the beautifully illustrated
books of the past.

A few books: Illustrated by Frances Tyrrell:

This is the castle that Kate built, and in it can be
found the dreams of every child who
has ever spent a sandy, sun-filled day at the beach.

"' Twas in the moon of wintertime when
all the birds had fled ..."
So begins Canada's most beautiful Christmas carol.
Its writer, Jean de Brebeuf (1593-1649), was a
Jesuit missionary who lived and worked among the
Huron Indians for twenty-two years.
Although Father de Brebeuf was killed during an
Iroquois raid, the carol was kept alive in
the Huron language for over one hundred years
before it was translated into French.
The English words were written in 1926 by J.E. Middleton.

You can read more about her
on her blog or website

http://www.francestyrrell.com/
http://www.treasureseekerstudio.blogspot.com/

~Bella`s lullaby~

Life was like a moonless night
Shrouded in the stars
Beauty can be such a fright
But now you're in my arms

You are my life now
Can't you see
I'd cross oceans
I'd swim seas
To be with you
That's enough for me.
Your face is like a poison
Intoxicating me
How can we live forever
When our love can never be.

From the movie: Twillight, New Moon

~Jessie Willcox Smith~Illustrator

 Jessie Willcox Smith,
was born on September 6 in 1863 
She died on May 3 in 1935
She was a United States illustrator famous
for her work in magazines such as
Ladies Home Journal and for her
illustrations for children's books.

Born in the Mount Airy neighborhood
of Philadelphia,
Smith studied at the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts under
Thomas Eakins in Philadelphia, graduating in 1888.
A year later, she started working in the
production department of the Ladies Home Journal,
for five years. She left to take classes under
Howard Pyle, first at Drexel and then at
the Brandywine School.

 
She was a prolific contributor to books and
magazines during the late nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries, illustrating stories
and articles for clients such as Century,
Collier's Weekly, Leslie's Weekly, Harper's,
McClure's, Scribners and the Ladies' Home Journal.

 

Smith may be most well known for her covers
on Good Housekeeping, which she painted
from December 1917 through March 1933.
She also painted posters and portraits.
Her twelve illustrations for Charles Kingsley's
The Water-Babies (1916) are also well known.
On Smith's death, she bequeathed the
original works to the Library of Congress'
"Cabinet of American Illustration" collection.
(A thirteenth illustration remains in a private collection.)

  

Just a Few books:
-Chapin, Anna Alice, The Now-a-Days Fairy Book, 1911.
-Dickens’ Children, Scribner, 1912.
-Moore, Clement C., ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas, 1912.
-The Jessie Willcox Smith Mother Goose, Dodd, 1914.
-Alcott, Louisa Mae, Little Women, Little, Brown, 1915.
-Underwood, Priscilla, When Christmas Comes Around, 1915.
-A Child’s Stamp Book of Old Verses, 1915.

 

“It has been one long joyous road along which
troop delightful children, happy children,
sad children, thoughtful children, and
above all wondering, imaginative children,
who give to their charmingly original thoughts
a delicious quaintness of expression. I love to paint them all.”
~Jessie Wilcox Smith~

 
Jessie Willcox Smith
werd geboren op 6 September in 1863.
En is overleden na een langdurig ziekbed op 3 Mei in 1935
Zij heeft illustraties gemaakt voor magazines
in Verenigde Staten zoals Good Housekeeping Magazine
van begin vorige eeuw. Daarnaast heeft zij
verschillende schilderijen gemaakt en
diverse kinderboeken geïllustreerd.
Ze wordt gezien als de eerste vrouwelijke
illustrator van de Verenigde Staten.

Children’s Book Week - Kinderboekenweek in de VS.
Ook in de Verenigde Staten wordt elk jaar
een Kinderboekenweek gehouden.
De ‘Official Poster’ van dit jaar is van Ian Falconer.
De posters die elk jaar door een andere
kinderboekenillustrator worden gemaakt zijn vaak
bijzonder fraai. In 1994 verscheen
het boek 75 Years of Children’s Book Week Posters
met alle tot dan toe verschenen posters.

 

De eerste poster uit 1919, gemaakt door
Jessie Wilcox Smith, viel zo in de smaak dat
deze vijf jaar lang gebruikt werd (afb. links versie 1921).
Ook de poster van 1924, ‘More Books In The Home’,
werd door haar gemaakt, maar in de volgende jaren
werd steeds een op dat moment
populaire illustrator ingehuurd.