LETTER FROM A READER
Recently, I received an email from someone who had listened to the audiobook of All That’s Missing read by MacLeod Andrews.
“Your audio book was truly remarkable,” she wrote. “I could not wait to listen to the next part. I felt as if I were with Arlo every step of the way, and with his friends, and family members, Grandmother Ida and Poppo. I am going to recommend this book to my grand-daugther, age 9, because I think she'd love it too.”
As I face down another birthday later this month, I have to say that email was the nicest gift I could imagine. It’s true what they say about writers. You’re always wondering who is reading your work and hoping desperately that they enjoy it.
This listener also wrote, “What I particularly liked was your mentioning the work of the painter Henry Ossawa Tanner. I did a brief internet search on him, and was struck both by his courage and the luminosity of his painting.” I was struck by these things too and was only too happy to offer further reading selections in response to this reader’s request. In fact, it is my fervent wish that lots of people find out more about Henry Ossawa Tanner after reading All That’s Missing. That would be fabulous.
For young people, a good place to start might be Faith Ringgold’s picture book biography, Henry Ossawa Tanner: His Boyhood Dream Comes True, published by Bunker Hill in Pierpont, NH in 2011.
Then there is the beautiful book produced in conjunction with the 2012 exhibit, Henry Ossawa Tanner – Modern Spirit, published by the University of California Press.
Or, you can simply go to the website for the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts here.
Enjoy!
Sarah
“Your audio book was truly remarkable,” she wrote. “I could not wait to listen to the next part. I felt as if I were with Arlo every step of the way, and with his friends, and family members, Grandmother Ida and Poppo. I am going to recommend this book to my grand-daugther, age 9, because I think she'd love it too.”
As I face down another birthday later this month, I have to say that email was the nicest gift I could imagine. It’s true what they say about writers. You’re always wondering who is reading your work and hoping desperately that they enjoy it.
This listener also wrote, “What I particularly liked was your mentioning the work of the painter Henry Ossawa Tanner. I did a brief internet search on him, and was struck both by his courage and the luminosity of his painting.” I was struck by these things too and was only too happy to offer further reading selections in response to this reader’s request. In fact, it is my fervent wish that lots of people find out more about Henry Ossawa Tanner after reading All That’s Missing. That would be fabulous.
For young people, a good place to start might be Faith Ringgold’s picture book biography, Henry Ossawa Tanner: His Boyhood Dream Comes True, published by Bunker Hill in Pierpont, NH in 2011.
Then there is the beautiful book produced in conjunction with the 2012 exhibit, Henry Ossawa Tanner – Modern Spirit, published by the University of California Press.
Or, you can simply go to the website for the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts here.
Enjoy!
Sarah
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