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Posted: May 05 2010 at 12:08pm | IP Logged Quote JennGM
It's harder to find books illustrated or written by Elizabeth Orton Jones, but we're huge fans here.

Biography

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Twentieth-Century American Children's Literature Web Site with a bio and gallery.

I think she is most famous for her Caldecott winning illustrations in Prayer for a Child by Rachel Field.

Big Susan written and illustrated by Elizabeth Orton Jones.

also

Twig.

But two other books I've found shows how delicious her illustrations of nature are:

Song of the Sun From the Canticle of the Sun by St. Francis of Assisi

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Secrets written by her mother, Jessie Orton Jones, and illustrated by Elizabeth. This was my latest find. It's little thoughts or poems on observing nature and the wonder and secrets of it -- all reflecting God. Beautiful, and the illustrations are, too.

I've been thinking of Angie's question of what books I would take to an island, and these would be first on the list. They really put AWE in the reader.

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