- Princesses, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Caldecott Medal
Though many try, only the court jester is able to fulfill Princess Lenore's wish for the moon.
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Warm, intimate, classical in form and effortless.
- warmbleak
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
- effortlessdemanding
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- James Thurber
- First published
- 1943
- Pages
- 47
- Publisher
- Lectorum Pubns Inc (J), Harcourt, Brace and company, Brand: Perfection Learning
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780590322720
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“ONCE UPON A TIME, in a kingdom by the sea, there lived a little Princess named Lenore.”
The author of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and the creator of numerous New Yorker magazine cover cartoons, was born in Columbus, Ohio on December, 8, 1894. One of the foremost American humorists of the 20th century, his inimitable wit and pithy prose spanned a breadth of genres, including short stories, modern commentary, fiction, children's fantasy and letters. Thurber's father, Charles, was a civil clerk, and his mother, Mame, was an eccentric woman who would influence many of her son's stories. Thurber had two brothers, William and Robert. One day while playing "William Tell" with them as youngsters, Thurber lost the sight in one eye when an arrow pierced it. Ultimately, he would go bl
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