a blog is to read
After reading The Horn Book Magazine 's September/October 2012 article, " Artists Are To Watch: Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss in the 1950s,"--Johnson and Krauss were married, in case you didn't know--an article about the the FBI's belief that Crockett Johnson was one of "400 concealed Communists," I felt compelled to read Ruth Krauss' A Hole is to Dig , because A. I'd never read it before and B. it was illustrated by one of my favs, Maurice Sendak. A Hole is to Dig (1952) is a child's first book of definitions, written from the point of view of children, which means it results in pages like, "A party is to say how-do-you-do and shake hands" "A party is to make little children happy" From Ruth Krauss' A Hole is to Dig , Mauric Sendak illustrator The book is sweet and simple and will make adults smile and children laugh. Sendak's illustrations, drawings which no doubt helped kick off his career are lovely...