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The Snow Queen and Other Tales
This beautifully illustrated collection features some of the most beloved fairy tales from around the world, including E.T.A. Hoffman's "The Story of a Nutcracker, " the classic Russian tale of "Baba Yaga, " and Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen."
144 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1961
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Marie Ponsot
40 books16 followersMarie Ponsot was an American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator.
After graduating from St. Joseph's College for Women in Brooklyn, Ponsot earned her master's degree in seventeenth-century literature from Columbia University. After the Second World War, she journeyed to Paris, where she met and married Claude Ponsot, a painter and student of Fernand Léger. The couple lived in Paris for three years, during which time they had a daughter. Later, Ponsot and her husband relocated to the United States. The couple had six sons before divorcing.
Upon returning from France, Ponsot worked as a freelance writer of radio and television scripts. She also translated 69 children's books from the French, including The Fables of La Fontaine.
She co-authored with Rosemary Deen two books about the fundamentals of writing, Beat Not the Poor Desk and Common Sense.
Ponsot taught a poetry thesis class, as well as writing classes, at the Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y. She has also taught at the YMCA, Beijing United University, New York University, and Columbia University, and she served as an English professor at Queens College in New York, from which she retired in 1991.
Ponsot lived in New York City.
Ponsot was the author of several collections of poetry, including The Bird Catcher (1998), a finalist for the 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Springing: New and Selected Poems (2002), which was named a "notable book of the year" by The New York Times Book Review.
Among her awards are a creative writing grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Prize, The Robert Frost Poetry Award, the Shaughnessy Medal of the Modern Language Association, the 2013 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from the Poetry Foundation, and the 2015 Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry.
After graduating from St. Joseph's College for Women in Brooklyn, Ponsot earned her master's degree in seventeenth-century literature from Columbia University. After the Second World War, she journeyed to Paris, where she met and married Claude Ponsot, a painter and student of Fernand Léger. The couple lived in Paris for three years, during which time they had a daughter. Later, Ponsot and her husband relocated to the United States. The couple had six sons before divorcing.
Upon returning from France, Ponsot worked as a freelance writer of radio and television scripts. She also translated 69 children's books from the French, including The Fables of La Fontaine.
She co-authored with Rosemary Deen two books about the fundamentals of writing, Beat Not the Poor Desk and Common Sense.
Ponsot taught a poetry thesis class, as well as writing classes, at the Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y. She has also taught at the YMCA, Beijing United University, New York University, and Columbia University, and she served as an English professor at Queens College in New York, from which she retired in 1991.
Ponsot lived in New York City.
Ponsot was the author of several collections of poetry, including The Bird Catcher (1998), a finalist for the 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Springing: New and Selected Poems (2002), which was named a "notable book of the year" by The New York Times Book Review.
Among her awards are a creative writing grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Prize, The Robert Frost Poetry Award, the Shaughnessy Medal of the Modern Language Association, the 2013 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from the Poetry Foundation, and the 2015 Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry.
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March 25, 2008
I have searched for this book with illustrations by Adrienne Segur for the last 10 years. If you love fairy tale art by Kay Nelson , Maxfield Parrish, Arthur Rackham you won't be able to resist the art of Adrienne Segur.
What a thrill to see these illustrations and read the beautiful translations from the French. The stories still are as powerful as ever...I was surprised. There is no sugar coating/political correctedness. In searching through the internet, many adults who are fans of this illustrator talk about the effect she had on their childhood...especially if it was difficult. The illustrations "reached out to you" or "understood how you felt". This is really tough to explain if you have not seen them! I hope some of you have had the joy of this experience too.
I was fortunate enough to find the 1962 edition that looks like it is untouched...
What a thrill to see these illustrations and read the beautiful translations from the French. The stories still are as powerful as ever...I was surprised. There is no sugar coating/political correctedness. In searching through the internet, many adults who are fans of this illustrator talk about the effect she had on their childhood...especially if it was difficult. The illustrations "reached out to you" or "understood how you felt". This is really tough to explain if you have not seen them! I hope some of you have had the joy of this experience too.
I was fortunate enough to find the 1962 edition that looks like it is untouched...
January 23, 2008
One of the treasures of my childhood. These Russian fairy tales are beautifully illustrated. I received a copy for Christmas when I was a child and still own the original. The reprint never stays on the shelf at my library!
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