Ticket to Curlew by Celia Barker Lottridge

Navy, she soon found herself moving again, this time to San Diego, where she got a job as a children's librarian before transferring to a library position in a private school in New York City when her husband's career brought the couple back to the East Coast. Two years later, she earned her master of library science degree at Columbia University.

'I gave up really working at making friends when I was going on ten, but books were always there, so reading, and the people in books, were very important to me.'Īfter graduating from high school, Lottridge attended Stanford University and graduated with a degree in modern European history in 1957.

She credits these moves with broadening her perspective on people and places, as well as with transforming her into 'an avid reader,' as she recalled to Dave Jenkinson in Canadian Review of Materials. (Apr.Born in Iowa City in 1936, Lottridge and her family moved frequently due to her father's transient career as a college professor, and by age twelve she could count seven towns in the United States that she had, at one time or another, called home. Text and art seem both of a period and contemporary, sustaining a positive mood and sure to appeal to a broad range of readers. The artist confers a timeless quality on her subjects at times they have the look of antiquity, elsewhere, their wide eyes and angular noses recall cubism. An arresting blend of watercolor, ink and paper collage, they balance a range of surprising textures and distinctive, complex patterns with earth tones and skillful crosshatching. ) sophisticated mixed-media compositions extend the stories' compelling tone.

Throughout, Wolfsgruber's ( Inanna: From the Myths of Ancient Sumer As a result, these concise and colorful passages are ideal for reading aloud and sharing with the family or a group. The clear language and crisp phrasing here allow readers to more closely imagine and understand what the people of Jesus' time may have been thinking and feeling. Demonstrating a facility for crafting a fine tale, Lottridge culls and collates key and common elements from the accounts of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John to form a chronological story of Jesus' life, death and resurrection, making all the familiar events sound fresh and of a whole.

) lets the stories about Jesus found in the four Gospels of the Bible shine anew in this accessible and entertaining collection.

Ticket to Curlew by Celia Barker Lottridge