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Ilse Plume

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http://ilseplume.com

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Children's Books

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Ilse Plume is an internationally renowned children's book author and illustrator who has illustrated stories from Italy, Latvia, Russia, and Sweden. She was inspired to illustrate children's books by her daughter, and her love of tales around the world was nurtured by her grandfather.

Her books include: The Bremen Town Musicians, which received the Caldecott Honor, and, most recently, The Farmer in the Dell. She has shown her work in exhibitions at the Lincoln Public Library and the DeCordova Museum in Massachusetts, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

Ilse has an M.F.A. and B.F.A. from Drake University, and studied printmaking at the Santa Reparata Studio in Florence, Italy. She is therecipient of the 1985 Ezra Jack Keats Award. She has...more

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Books by Ilse Plume

Average rating: 3.43 · 82 ratings · 19 reviews · 15 distinct works

	The Farmer in the Dell 3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Twelve Days of Christmas 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1990 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Bremen Town Musicians (Picture Yearling Book) by Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm, Ilse Plume, Wilhelm Karl Grimm 3.69 avg rating — 313 ratings — published 1945 — 59 editions	My rating:
	The Shoemaker and the Elves 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1991	My rating:
	The Christmas Witch 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1991 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Lullaby and Goodnight: Songs and Poems for Babies 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Story of Befana: An Italian Christmas Tale 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1981	My rating:
	Salt: A Russian Folktale by Jane Langton, Alexander Afanasyev, Ilse Plume (Illustrator) 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1992 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Hedgehog Boy: A Latvian Folktale by Jane Langton, Ilse Plume (Illustrator) 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1985 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Saint Francis and the Wolf by Jane Langton, Ilse Plume 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2007	My rating: