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- John Lothgow Rules
- MY FAVORITE OF ALL THE LITHGOW BOOKS
- Amazing book!
- Wonderful John Lithgow work
- Fun
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Marsupial Sue Book and CD
John Lithgow
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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ASIN: 0689843941 |
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Being a kangaroo certainly looks like a lot of fun, what with all the hopping and the hay eating. But who knew all that jumping around could cause such problems? Marsupial Sue, that's who, a smartly dressed young 'roo who can't abide by all the bouncing: "It rattled her brain. It gave her migraine. A backache, sideache, tummyache too."
So John Lithgow recounts in 4/4 time--along with the jaunty, waltzy music and score on the CD that's included--in his second foray into children's books (The Remarkable Farkle McBride being the first). Probably best known as Dick Solomon on TV's 3rd Rock from the Sun, Lithgow brings his comic knack to this Down Under story about the importance of being yourself. Marsupial Sue might be intrigued by the idea of being a climbing koala or prawn-slurping platypus, but with Lithgow's cooing reassurance as the narrator, she eventually comes around: "Be happy with who you are. / Don't ever stray too far from you. / Get rid of that frown / And waltz up and down / beneath a marsupial star. / If you're a kangaroo through and through, / Just do what kangaroos do."
Lithgow will likely never surpass the spiritual contributions he made to our world as Doctor Emilio Lizardo and John Whorfin, but don't hold that against him. Like Farkle, Marsupial Sue is surely worth a read (and a listen), especially with illustrator Jack E. Davis's cool cast of sunglass- and snappy-hat-wearing Aussie animals. (Ages 4 to 8) --Paul Hughes
Book Description
If you're a Kangaroo
through and through,
Just do what Kangaroos do.
Young Sue really doesn't like being a kangaroo, so she goes off to find something better. First she tries climbing the trees like a koala, but that doesn't work. Then she wades into the sea like a platypus, but that's no good either. Finally, Sue joins up with some bouncy, jouncy wallabies...and discovers that being a kangaroo isn't so bad, after all.
Using a jaunty waltz rhythm, actor, comedian, and best-selling author John Lithgow reassures children that they can be happy with who they are.
For listening or singing along, a CD of a John Lithgow performance of Marsupial Sue and an instrumental version is included with this book, as is the score of the song.
Customer Reviews:
John Lothgow Rules.......2007-09-24
Marsupial Sue is a great song/book for kids. The message of being you is important, and the song sticks with the kids. Having the CD to hear John Lithgow narrate is a must to do this book justice.
MY FAVORITE OF ALL THE LITHGOW BOOKS.......2007-08-12
My granddaughter introduced me to this book...and it has become my favorite piece of children's literature! I try to give it as a gift to as many children as possible. Perfect for the three year old....and great music for moms to listen to over and over and over...THE GREATEST!
Amazing book!.......2007-06-11
John does it again! My 3-4 year old preschoolers LOVE this book! I love this book. I find myself actually singin along with the book and the kids absolutely love it. One of the best books I have bought them! (and his other ones too!)
Wonderful John Lithgow work.......2007-05-30
I LOVE this book and CD. I have been privileged to use it in my car when having play day with some of the local children aged 2-4. The CD is a big hit! Mr. Lithgow sings this song with the most wonderful exuberance which catches and holds the attention of young and old alike. I find myself singing along! What a wonderful work.
Fun.......2007-05-25
I like the way John doesn't baby-talk to his readers & their kids. He just seems to assume that at some point the kids will find out the meanings of unfamiliar words. Vocabulary building can be fun.
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- A Really Nice Little Book - a review of "Joey" by Jack Kent
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Joey
Jack Kent
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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A Really Nice Little Book - a review of "Joey" by Jack Kent.......2005-08-20
Parents and children are missing out by not knowing and reading about Joey and his mother. [This book is the original, followed by the even better story "Joey Runs Away".]
Joey and his mother, of course, are kangaroos. In this story Joey's mother worries about him getting lost "...as mother do."
"She worried that Joey might get lost.
So, to keep track of him
she put Joey in her pocket."
Joey is initially comfortable in his pocket home. He has coloring books and toys to play with, but after a time he wants friends too, and this is where the fun comes in. Joey's mom invites his friends over, and for a while they are happy to bounce around with her as she goes about her business.
Then someone suggests TV. Since Joey's pocket doesn't have one, a friend brings one over. Next it's a stereo system, and then the gang decides they need to start their own band.
With each addition, mom's pocket get larger and her eye's begin to bulge more. The final straw comes after the addition of a guitar, tuba and drum set, when one of the friends pushes up a baby grand piano.
"That will do!" said mother.
OUT! OUT! Everybody out! she said.
Out went the TV and the stereo. Our went Bob and his horn.
Out went Billy and his drums.
Out went Betty and her piano.
And out went Joey.
"OOPS!" said mother. "I didn't mean to throw YOU out!
"Well, as long as I AM out," said Joey, "May I go play?"
With a sigh mom says 'yes', and reminds him not to get lost.
Four Stars. A lovely, silly tale that is very popular with my children (3 and 5 years old).
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Joey Runs Away Is Run-Away Success In Our Home --4.5 Stars.......2005-04-14
A Scholastic Video, "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom", introduced us to Joey and his mom and we liked the story so much that we decided that we must have the book.
We searched for it on Amazon but have found that it is not currently in print. Bummer. This is such a delightful book that it is ashame that it is not more readily available. With its simple drawings and funny story it has something for most kids. [Mine who are 3 and 5, boy and girl, ask for this to be read all the time.]
The story:
Joey is a young kangaroo who runs away from home in order to avoid cleaning up his room. While he is gone, the other animals find out about mama's empty pouch and they approach her with the idea of renting it out. Of course, Joey's mom refuses. Joey searches but cannot find good lodgings. Joey and mom are reunited when Joey finally realizes that there is no place like home and hearth, and besides his room wasn't *that* messy.
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Kangaroo Jack
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
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ASIN: 0790777266 |
Book Description
This digital document is an article from Semana, published by Thomson Gale on February 2, 2003. The length of the article is 2076 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
Citation Details
Title: Pantalla grande. (En Proyeccion).
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Semana (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 2, 2003
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 9
Issue: 518
Page: 41(1)
Distributed by Thomson Gale
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This savvy resource helps artists and art professionals generate the publicity that keeps their artwork and business in the public spotlight. Provided are practical tools for attracting the media's attention and building bridges between artists, their galleries, and collectors, and between museums and their audiences. This new edition provides the latest word on new art markets; how to research the Internet, build a Website, and launch e-mail publicity campaigns.
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Very Helpful.......2007-08-23
Fine Art Publicity has some very good ideas about marketing and publicity. We just opened an art gallery, and have already had a few articles published in local newspapers thanks to the suggestions in this book.
Book will be a great help.......2005-09-16
I am writing a business plan to open an art gallery.
Even though I already know how to market service businesses,
I need to learn a lot about marketing an art gallery. I
found a trove of very good advice in this book. I appreciate
the easy layout and readability also. I expect anyone
with an art business can find ideas here.
A 'must' for aspiring artists and gallery owners alike.......2005-06-10
The majority of art career guides come from either career counselors or artists themselves, so it's refreshing to note that Fine Art Publicity: The Complete Guide For Galleries And Artists, appearing in its second updated edition, is written by an industry publicist backed by the knowledge of her profession. Galleries and artists receive the basics of marketing to the art community; from researching a media list for both local and national contacts to locating businesses connected to the arts, and gathering a library of samples for targeted publicity contacts. Simply an outstanding reference; a 'must' for aspiring artists and gallery owners alike.
This book is great.......2003-09-06
I dont usually write reviews, but I completely disagree with the bad review on here. This is an incredibly useful book for art galleries. I can't express how helpful this book has been to me. This is a guide for galleries not artists, so maybe that's why the last reader had issues.
Search Elsewhere.......2002-12-12
I buy alot of books but I have never before seen a book written for an adult audience spread so thinly over so many pages. I suppose this was done to try to create the illusion of there being more information here than there really is. What little useful information this book contians seems to be repeated over and over. I would guess again to fill pages. I feel there is virtually no practical information here for an artist and very little for a gallery. I usually don't have an interest in writing book reviews but I was so disappointed in this book that I wanted to alert others to search elsewhere for useful information.
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The most famous artistic compilation ever made of the great age of the poster, featuring works by nearly 100 artists, among them Cheret, Toulouse-Lautrec, Bonnard, Mucha, Beardsley, Parrish, Grasset, Penfield, Steinlen, many more. Full color, large format, one poster per page, extensive documentation.
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good reference.......2006-03-10
As stated, the book contains all 256 plates. But there is almost no informational material. If you just want to know what was included in this series, this is your reference manual.
a beautiful book!.......2005-08-21
Nice quality with large reproductions, nice heavyweight pages, and great color. Full of inspiring figurative artwork, graphic design, and lettering from a time and place when more work by hand and individual style made it into advertising.
if you can't afford the real posters.......2001-12-31
i collect posters.
i love posters.
for some of the posters, this will be as close as i'll get unless i win the lottery.
a great present to your friends or to yourself.
Who could ask for anything more?.......2000-05-14
An an interior designer and a collector of antique posters, I completely rely on this book. Roger Marx brings to us an amazing selection of posters ranging from whimsical prints to dramatic and romantic pieces as well as thorough information on each piece. Featured on the cover is my most treasured posession.
Book Description
Two great traditions--fine art and American advertising--intersect, interact, and explode off the page as ad man Barry Hoffman examines the twentieth century's appropriation of highbrow art to sell us the products we love.
Filled with vibrant ads that playfully use art-history icons--such as da Vinci's Mona Lisa, Michelangelo's David, Botticelli's Venus, and Warhol's soup cans--as well as rarely seen commissioned art from masters such as Willem de Kooning, Jacob Lawrence, and Rene Magritte, Hoffman shows how the boundaries between fine art and advertising have disappeared. In fact, today's cutting-edge artists, such as Damien Hirst, Barbara Kruger, and Jeff Koons, are all part of the ad game.
Seasoning each provocative chapter ("The High Art of Class Lust," "Pop Goes the Easel," "The Greatest Degeneration") with wry observations from art world personalities and advertising luminaries, Hoffman shows us how narrow the gap between art and advertising really is.
So if you like art (even though you don't follow it closely), and advertising (even while you hate the fact that you can't escape it), the irreverent, irrepressible, irresistibly ironic Barry Hoffman gives you Both for the Price of One.
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well crafted book.......2006-02-25
if you are looking for an art meets advertising intro book, this mgiht be for you. it just touches the surface and is an interesting read
The Art in Ads.......2003-09-11
This is a book that will appeal to everyone interested in the connection between art and advertising, how they have influenced each other and continue to do so. It provides a short course in both art history and ad history. The writing is alive and engaging. There are hundreds of ads accompanied by the art that influenced them. Missing, however, is any mention of the early Kodak ads based on photos by Ansel Adams, Paul Strand, Edward Weston, and more recently Paul Caponigro, Jerry Uelsmann and others.
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Billboard: Art on the Road
Laura Steward Heon ,
Peggy Diggs , and
Lisa Dorin
Manufacturer: The MIT Press
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ASIN: 0262581779 |
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foreword by Joseph Thompson
This book accompanies the exhibition of artists' billboards that opens the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art's (MASS MoCA's) inaugural season. The exhibition comprises a twenty-work retrospective of billboards designed by artists over the past three decades as well as five newly commissioned ones. The retrospective includes works by, among others, John Baldessari, Geneviève Cadieux, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Gran Fury, Group Material, the Guerrilla Girls, Jenny Holzer, Joseph Kosuth, and Barbara Kruger. The new works, made in cooperation with the communities where they will be installed, are by Julie Ault and Martin Beck, Lothar Baumgarten, Sue Coe, Leon Golub, and Gary Simmons.
In addition to the descriptions and color images of the historic and new billboards, the book contains almost three hundred short entries, offering the first broad survey of the medium. More than half of these entries include a small color image.
The book also contains three essays. In "Disturbances in the Field of Mammon: Toward a History of Artists' Billboards," Harriet Senie finds precursors for contemporary billboards in European art posters (Toulouse-Lautrec), modern political posters (Rodchenko), and war billboards ("Uncle Sam Wants You"). She looks at the subject matter of contemporary artists' billboards--racism, feminism, environmental issues, war and peace, consumerism, and AIDS--and at artists' strategies and site choices. Public artist Peggy Diggs discusses the process through which billboards are made and the problems encountered by billboard artists, and curator Laura Heon writes about works in the exhibition, in particular the (often conceptual) billboards that do not "sell" any political message.
Copublished with the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.
Book Description
Definitive list of works by "father of the modern poster" provides scholars, collectors, lovers of fine art with scrupulously researched entries and over 300 meticulously reproduced black-and-white illustrations of rare works. Descriptions provide, where known, dimensions, date, printer, colors, size of edition, and more.
Customer Reviews:
Authenticating Jules Cheret Artwork and Posters.......2006-02-23
This is the authoritative source for all the artwork and posters of Jules Cheret, who perfected color lithography in the late 1800's. There are a number of color slides of original Jules Cheret posters plus excellent descriptive information to help one identify a suspected Jules Cheret poster. The catalog is by theme or advertiser without an index or table of contents to help one located the exact page where, let's say, Moulin-Rouge or Olympia might start. This does then force scanning to find the start of the catagory one might want - an inconvenience. In spite of this, once you discover the catagory area, the material is informative and precise enough to help with identification.
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Oversized hardcover, profusely illustrated in black and white, detailing the best advertising for the year 1971.
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American Illustration Showcase: (7)
Manufacturer: American Showcase, Inc.
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Binding: Spiral-bound
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ASIN: B000E31POI |
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The most prominent illustration artsits of their time are covered in this issue. Advertising to art is fully covered
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PLEASE NOTE: This is not the auction catalog -- it is advertising, or announcement, brochure; 7 pages with 4 full-page illustrations [2 of furniture, 1 tapestry, 1 tea set] in a single color I think is called sepia. The brochure relates the range of items that will be sold [1,200 catalogue lots] and highlights the finest pieces. There is also some background on the couple. The wife of Manhattan lawyer Charles E. F. McCann was Helena Woolworth McCann, eldest daughter of the late 5¢-&-10¢ store magnate, Frank Winfield Woolworth. Their country estate was called Sunken Orchard at Oyster Bay, L.I. This would make an excellent "go-with" if you already own the catalogue.
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