virginia lee burton mike mulligan and his steam shovel

When Virginia was about 8 years old, her family moved to San Diego, California, as the New England winters were hard on her mother's health. Harold became an attorney, politician and Supreme Court Justice and Arnold an architect. She recounted their boisterous holiday celebrations, and singing, dancing and theatrical productions as children.

Virginia had an older sister, Christine, and younger brother, Alexander Ross Burton, in addition to their father's first two sons, Harold Hitz Burton and Felix Arnold Burton. Notably, Burton's father served as the first Dean of Student Affairs for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1902-1921). They were married in 1906, having met on a walking trip in France. Burton, married Lena Yates after he had been widowed with two sons.

Later, she went by the moniker Jeanne D'Orge. Yates later published children's books under the name Lena Dalkeith. Her mother was Lena Yates, a lyric poet and artist from England whose poetry was first published at age 20. Virginia Burton was born in Newton Centre, Massachusetts. Some of its members' works are held today in the collections of Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, the Cape Ann Museum, and New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art. She also illustrated six books by other authors.īurton founded the textile collective, Folly Cove Designers, in Cape Ann, Massachusetts, which had numerous museum exhibitions.

She wrote and illustrated seven children's books, including Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel (1939) and The Little House (1943), which won the Caldecott Medal. Urn:oclc:17532641 Republisher_date 20131105090951 Republisher_operator Scandate 20131101065501 Scanner Lee Burton (Aug– October 15, 1968), also known by her married name Virginia Demetrios, was an American illustrator and children's book author. Urn:lcp:mikemulliganhiss00leev:epub:cf971709-6c5b-4593-bc31-acbf83f0a130 Extramarc OhioLINK Library Catalog Foldoutcount 0 Identifier mikemulliganhiss00leev Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t2s48x23d Invoice 11 Isbn 0395457386ĩ780590324878 Lccn 77154507 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 20:51:35 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA1107502 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donor

Virginia lee burton mike mulligan and his steam shovel