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Ian Woodward Falconer (August 25, 1959 – March 7, 2023) [1] was an American author and illustrator of children's books as well as a designer of sets and costumes for the theater. He created 30 covers for The New Yorker and also for other publications.
The Olivia book series was inspired by Ian Falconer's niece, Olivia. [1]The series is different from many children's picture books because of its stark minimalism. Inspired by the style of Dr. Seuss, Falconer chose to draw uncluttered images in black and white with the occasional splash of red, along with the insertion of real artwork by famous artists — Degas and Pollock, for example.
Olivia A. Cole was raised in Louisville, Kentucky. [1] In high school, she was selected to attend Kentucky Governor's School for the Arts' three-week Creative Writing summer program. [ 2 ] Cole was an undergraduate student at Columbia College Chicago , where she earned her B.A. in Cultural Studies with a minor in Poetry in 2011. [ 3 ]
In 1969, she began writing and illustrating a series of books for young readers beginning with The Haunted Spy [1] about a retired spy named Hannibel Stern who with his dog Zero retires to live in a castle on an island, making friends with a 400-year-old ghost Sir Roger de Rudisell (Byfield's mother's maiden name) who advises him.
When Olivia is passing the cruise ship on the way to meet Feramo, a terrorist bomb blows the ship up. Olivia helps to rescue survivors but hundreds are killed. Soon afterwards, in Los Angeles, Olivia meets Feramo again, working on a movie. Olivia calls the FBI with her suspicions about Feramo, but is interrupted. She also has her room swept for ...
Don't look now, but 2024's been a knockout of a year for books. If you've been neglectful of your reading (confession: This year saw me slip a little, from "voracious" to merely "avid"), we're ...
Olivia Rossetti Agresti (1875–1960) was a British activist, author, editor, and interpreter. A member of one of England's most prominent artistic and literary families, her unconventional political trajectory began with anarchism , continued with the League of Nations , and ended with Italian Fascism .
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