Good Morning Billie!
I just love this sweet photo and poem. I am going to try and save both, as on Valentine’s Day ‘09.... hubby and I will celebrate our 50th Wedding Anniversary. I am putting together a book and would love this poem and graphic!!!!
Nice!
Polly
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| An English author and poet, Kipling was born in Bombay, British India (now Mumbai). He is best known for his works of fiction The Jungle Book (1894) (a collection of stories which includes Rikki-Tikki-Tavi), Kim (1901) (a tale of adventure), many short stories, including The Man Who Would Be King (1888); and his poems, including Mandalay (1890), Gunga Din (1890), and If— (1910). He is regarded as a major "innovator in the art of the short story"; his children's books are enduring classics of children's literature; and his best works speak to a versatile and luminous narrative gift. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in English, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The author Henry James said of him: "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius (as distinct from fine intelligence) that I have ever known." In 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English language writer to receive the prize, and to date he remains its youngest recipient.] Among other honours, he was sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and on several occasions for a knighthood, all of which he declined. |
| Mercer Mayer was born on December 30, 1943 in Little Rock, Arkansas. Mayer attended elementary school in Camden, Arkansas, but due to the fact that his father was in the United States Navy, the family moved often. This did not stop him from filling his free time with fun activities like snake- and lizard-hunting and reading books. After temporarily settling in communities all over the country, the Mayers finally settled in Honolulu, Hawaii, where Mayer graduated from Theodore Roosevelt High School. Upon graduating from high school in 1961, Mayer attended the Honolulu Academy of Arts. At that time, Mayer and his mother were commissioned to decorate the Kahala Hilton Hotel with collage wall panels. He also supplemented his income by being a political cartoonist for the International Brotherhood of Teamsters in Honolulu. Mayer attended the Honolulu Academy of Arts for about a year. It was at this time that Mayer decided he wanted to be a children's book illustrator. "I always liked to draw, and one day I decided I had nothing to lose, so I made a lot of sketches and began to peddle them." [2] His professors discouraged this career choice because they did not believe that he would be able to make a living at it. |
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I found this so sweet and meloncoly this morning (naturally). Christmas time is wonderful for me but very sentimental. I listened to Mary’s song twice while reading the words. It is beautiful. She has a most soothing voice. Thanks, Billie, as always.
