Quakerbush Visits Long Beach Junior Writer’s Club
Children and adults heard illustrator and author Quakerbush reveal his story craft at the Long Beach Junior Writer’s Club. He urged writers to jot ideas on paper despite doubts, sharing how life events inspire his Pete the rat and Summers and Winters tales, and noting plans for spinoff Mole stories.
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Tan
Om Guabenbush
Long Beach
Dale Clutter
Loe Altos
Detective Mole
Mole
Quakenbush
Fisher
Artist Quaker Bush reads, recalls deadlines, aids young writers
Quakenbush, born 1929, exhibited at the Whitney and Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts. Now living in New York, he spends two months in Santa Monica with wife Margery and their son while racing to complete a book in ten months. He discusses structure, page count, and research for a children’s picture book and previews a hidden object activity in his illustrated pages.
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Quakenbush
Whitney Museum
New York City
Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts
American Institute of Graphic Arts
New York
Quaker Bush
Santa Monica
Margery
Pop Goes the
Weasel
Robert Quackenbush
Hollywood
Arizona
Long Beach
Lisa Goldstein
Left Above
Mark Hundiey
Celeste McCafferty
Passages Predictable Crises of Adult Life Explored
Journalist Gail Sheehy presents Passages predicting crises at life stages from twenties to beyond. The book, based on 115 case studies, seeks to chart personality shifts and offer coping ideas while inviting debate on its scope as exploratory rather than definitive.
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Ban Fiancisco
Gus
Janior Executive
Gail Sheehy
Miss Sheehy
Dreds
Miss Sheely
New York
Women achievers prove age is no barrier in history
A column recalling mid career breakthroughs by Margaret Mitchell at 37 winning the Pulitzer in 1937, Margaret Chase Smith entering the Senate at 49 in 1948, Ruth Gordon’s 1968 Oscar at 72, Billie Jean King’s 1973 tennis triumph at 31, Grandma Moses starting painting at 76, and others. It urges readers to see precedent, not barriers, and to seize their own moment.
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Margaret Chase Smith
Senate
Billie Jean King
Houston
Astrodome
Bobby Riggs
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