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The year at Maple Hill Farm

Describes the seasonal changes on a farm and surrounding countryside throughout the year.

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Main Authors:	Provensen, Alice, Provensen, Martin (Author)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Atheneum, 1978.
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	Domestic animals > Juvenile nonfiction. Farm life > Juvenile nonfiction. Months > Juvenile nonfiction. Seasons > Juvenile nonfiction.
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Summary:	Describes the seasonal changes on a farm and surrounding countryside throughout the year.
Item Description:	"A Jonathan Cape book."
Physical Description:	[32] pages : color illustrations ; 33 cm
ISBN:	9780689204944 0689204949 0689306423 9780689306426 0590757849 9780590757843
Author Notes:	Alice Provensen was born Alice Rose Twitchell in Chicago, Illinois on August 14, 1918. She took classes at the Art Institute of Chicago and at the University of California at Los Angeles before finding a job at the animation studio of Walter Lantz. She met her future husband, Martin Provensen, while he was working on a Navy training film during World War II. They married in 1944 and relocated to Washington D.C., where she worked as a graphic artist for the Office of Strategic Services. They later moved to New York and became known as an author-illustrator picture book team. They created many award-winning picture books including A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Inexperienced Travelers by Nancy Willard, which won a 1982 Caldecott Honor, and The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot, which won the 1984 Caldecott Medal. Their other books included A Year at Maple Hill Farm, Our Animal Friends at Maple Hill Farm, Karen's Curiosity, Karen's Opposites, The Fuzzy Duckling, Katie the Kitten, The Color Kittens by Margaret Wise Brown, and A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson. They also created Tony the Tiger, which was the advertising symbol of Kellogg's Frosted Flakes. She continued working after her husband's death in 1987. Her books included The Buck Stops Here: The Presidents of the United States, A Day in the Life of Murphy, Punch in New York, and Klondike Gold. She died on April 23, 2018 at the age of 99.