Kathleen Krull, ’74
The Boy on Fairfield Street. Hardcover, 48 pages,
Random House Books for Young Readers, January 2004.
“The day after I graduated from Lawrence University,” writes Kathleen
Krull on www.kathleenkrull.com, “I
began a career in children’s publishing
and have stayed there ever since.” Which is putting it very mildly indeed;
Krull is an impressively prolific author whose works include the “Lives” series
of biographies of famous people, among many others.
The Boy on Fairfield Street is a picture-book biography of Ted Geisel, aka
Dr. Seuss, that, according to Amazon.com, “takes us from his early childhood
on Fairfield Street in Springfield, Massachusetts, to the time when he’s
22 years old in Greenwich Village and just starting to think he might make
a go of it as a person who draws flying cows.”
Other recent Krull titles include M Is for Music (Harcourt), which Library
Journal characterized as “an alphabetical compendium, from ‘anthem
and accordion’ to ‘zydeco, zither, and all forms of zippy music,’” and
A Pot O’ Gold (Hyperion), which is subtitled “A Treasury of Irish
Stories, Poetry, Folklore, and (Of Course) Blarney.”
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