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Elizabeth Orton Jones

Born

in Highland Park, Illinois, The United States

June 25, 1910

Died

May 10, 2005

Genre

Children's, Art

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Elizabeth Orton Jones was an American children's author and illustrator, born to an artistic and literary family. Her father was violinist George Roberts Jones and her mother pianist and writer Jessie Orton Jones. Her great-grandfather, Joseph Russell Jones, a friend of Abraham Lincoln, was minister to Belgium under President Ulysses S. Grant. Her grandmother was a professional pianist and her grandfather owned a bookstore.

She grew up with two siblings in a home filled with music, reading aloud, and encouragement to draw, think, and imagine. She attended House in the Pines, a private high school for girls, where she won a prize for English composition. She received a degree from the University of Chicago, and went to France to study painti ...more

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Average rating: 4.0 · 3,854 ratings · 480 reviews · 35 distinct works • Similar authors

	Twig 4.18 avg rating — 615 ratings — published 1942 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Big Susan 4.26 avg rating — 343 ratings — published 1947 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Little Red Riding Hood 3.60 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1948 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Maminka's Children 4.58 avg rating — 12 ratings — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	By Elizabeth Orton Jones Twig: 60th Anniversary Edition (1st First Edition) [Hardcover] really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Song of the Sun really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1952	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Rare Elizabeth Orton JONES 1st edit/1st print Ragman of Paris and his Ragamuffins First Edition 1937 [Hardcover] JONES, Elizabeth Orton [Hardcover] JONES, Elizabeth Orton 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“She looked and looked. And pretty soon she saw a little tiny star, no bigger than a toothpaste top, come out right above the back yard. She saw it come out and begin to twinkle, all by itself. Why! It wasn't evening yet. There weren't any other stars around. There was nothing around except plain, ordinary sky. But the little star kept twinkling. And—somehow—the sky didn't seem so plain and ordinary any more. Why! Even a little star no bigger than a toothpaste top made quite a difference—a little star, twinkling all by itself, made a difference in the whole sky!”
― Elizabeth Orton Jones, Twig

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“But ends are also beginnings, you know. Every single story has a beginning at its end.”
― Elizabeth Orton Jones, Twig

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