Is Truman Capote a Children’s Writer?
| Autor: | Alyona P. Khokhlova |
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| Jazyk: | German<br />English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />French<br />Russian |
| Rok vydání: | 2024 |
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| Zdroj: | Литература двух Америк, Iss 17, Pp 222-232 (2024) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 2541-7894 2542-243X |
| DOI: | 10.22455/2541-7894-2024-17-222-232 |
| Popis: | The article is devoted to the history of Truman Capote’s children’s poem “Can a Pig Fly”. Truman Capote is well-known as an author for the adult audience; however few readers are aware of the unpublished and the only known Capote’s children work written for the Random House “Beginner Books” easy-to-read series. The series was inspired by success of Theodor Geisel (also known as Doctor Seuss) children’s books. American educational circles of 1950s were under the influence of step-by-step vocabulary expansion of preschoolers and firstgraders. Hence Random House set up severe limitation for vocabulary used by new series writers. Several best-selling adult authors tried but couldn’t come up with anything worthy because they had to stick to a 100 Word List. Capote wrote several manuscripts, and “Can a Pig Fly” is the only almost finished manuscript left. American artist Hillary Knight, well-known by that time due to his works for Eloise series of books by Kay Thompson, made beautiful artworks for this unpublished picture book about the flying pig. |
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