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Chicken Forgets
A forgetful chicken, off to pick blackberries for his mother, almost comes home with flies, weeds, and clover blossoms instead
- GenresPicture Books
31 pages, Library Binding
First published January 1, 1976
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Miska Miles
38 books3 followersPatricia Miles Martin aka Miska Miles
Award winning American author. Born in Kansas in 1899. Worked as a teacher before becoming a writer. Apparently she became a writer by accident when she inadvertently found herself in a creative writing class at a local college when her own class was full up. Her first book was actually written whilst attending the course! Her career became very successful. One of her books (Annie and the Old One) was made into a film and received a Newbery Honour award.
She used her experiences of living on a farm and a Navajo reservation and her many travels, to colour her children's fictional stories, most of which were about animals, nature and different cultures. Quite a few of her novels were horse stories. She also wrote non-fiction, including a number of biographies.
She wrote under her own name, as Patricia A. Miles, and also under two other pseudonyms: Miska Miles and Jerry Lane. Her pony books were written under her own name and that of the Miska Miles pseudonym. I don't think she wrote any horse-related stories under her other pen names.
Sources: The De Grummond Collection.
Award winning American author. Born in Kansas in 1899. Worked as a teacher before becoming a writer. Apparently she became a writer by accident when she inadvertently found herself in a creative writing class at a local college when her own class was full up. Her first book was actually written whilst attending the course! Her career became very successful. One of her books (Annie and the Old One) was made into a film and received a Newbery Honour award.
She used her experiences of living on a farm and a Navajo reservation and her many travels, to colour her children's fictional stories, most of which were about animals, nature and different cultures. Quite a few of her novels were horse stories. She also wrote non-fiction, including a number of biographies.
She wrote under her own name, as Patricia A. Miles, and also under two other pseudonyms: Miska Miles and Jerry Lane. Her pony books were written under her own name and that of the Miska Miles pseudonym. I don't think she wrote any horse-related stories under her other pen names.
Sources: The De Grummond Collection.
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July 14, 2024
Very informative for its size!
July 7, 2017
A kind of partner to Swim, Little Duck and Small Rabbit. Illustrations are lovely, but story is dull.
January 20, 2019
I picked this book up from our classroom library because I'd recently been to Rome. I wish I would have read it before we left!
I like non-fiction children's books for the quick overview they can provide on a subject. I was especially looking for information about the Forum, which we toured on our trip. It is so hard to picture what once was when you are standing among a bunch of tumbled down bricks and stones.
Children reading this book may find some pages or sections more interesting than others. I think the book is designed that way, so that something on each page will grab their interest. Also, they may find out that life in ancient Rome was really not all that different from today.
I like non-fiction children's books for the quick overview they can provide on a subject. I was especially looking for information about the Forum, which we toured on our trip. It is so hard to picture what once was when you are standing among a bunch of tumbled down bricks and stones.
Children reading this book may find some pages or sections more interesting than others. I think the book is designed that way, so that something on each page will grab their interest. Also, they may find out that life in ancient Rome was really not all that different from today.
April 22, 2019
Very informative and filled with excellent illustrations.
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