Gail de marcken biography sample

  • These narratives are vividly brought to life with stunning illustrations by northern watercolor artist Gail de Marcken who spent several months traveling with.
  • It's a prequel, really.
  • Gail de Marcken is an illustrator of children's books.

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    Jeff brumbeau grew up in New York City, where he lived with his mother and sister in his wodowed grandmother's house. His mother worked hard to support her family, who struggled to get by.Jeff has had a variety of jobs befitting a degree in English, he says, including pumping gas, carpentry, painting, working in a mail room, car wash, factory, and candy store, on an oil rig in Wyoming and in advertising.He lives in Chicago and Taos with Marcia, his wife; Samantha, the opera singin Persian cat; and Louis, the daredevil alley cat.

    Gail de Marcken has been lucky enough to have lived all over the world. She joined the Peace Corps in 1965, and argued her way to a posting four days upriver in Borneo, where she met another volunteer. Two years later, he called her in Minnesota and offered to carry supplies back to her teacher's college. He had just gotten a job with the Peace Corps located nära the college. Three days late they got married, and she went with him back to Borneo. They had t

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    The Quiltmaker’s Journey

    Ear­li­er this week I pulled out our small stash of Thanks­giv­ing pic­ture books. The kids are old­er now, but they seem to like it when the old favorites come out. I got lost, as I always do, in The Quiltmaker’s Gift by Jeff Brum­beau, illus­trat­ed by Gail dem Mar­ck­en. I’ve writ­ten about that book for Red Read­ing Boots — you can find that here.

    I went in search of its com­pan­ion, The Quilt­mak­ers Jour­ney, which wasn’t with the Thanks­giv­ing books for some rea­son. Found it — and lost myself in it, as well. It’s a pre­quel, real­ly. Explains how the Quilt­mak­er came by her val­ues of gen­eros­i­ty, beau­ty, and love of peo­ple, not things.

    When the Quilt­mak­er was a young girl, she lived a mate­ri­al­ly advan­taged and priv­i­leged life.  Because every­one in her town was rich, the girl assumed every­one in the world was. This was bygd design, we learn. A wall had been built — a stone wall, thick a

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    This summer we have read dozens and dozens of books.  I am a reading GrAnn and there are piles of books in our home.  I want to report on 2 of our very favorites this summer, books we’ve read and re-read and read again to the kids:  The Quilt Makers Gift and The Quilt Maker’s Journey by Jeff Brumbeau, illustrated by Gail de Marken.

    When I first discovered The Quiltmaker’s Gift in 2002, I ordered about a hundred copies for all of my quilting friends (it was in a Scholastic book order when my kids were small).  The Quiltmaker’s Journey came out later, and tells the story of how the Quiltmaker came to be.  These books are lucious.  The tale is so meaningful and beautifully told and the illustrations are out of this world.  We spent hours just reading these 2 books and looking at the illustrations.

    These books come with my highest recommendation.  Just get them and treasure them.  You and your kids will be better for reading them.  Trust me.

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