Arts and Literature Mix Flashcards
Children’s Literature: This bear is named for a train station and arrives in England as a stowaway from South America
Paddington
Children’s Lit: Sally and her brother were looking out the window on a rainy day when they saw him standing on a doormat
Cat in the Hat
Children’s Literature: Bugs Meany is often the villain in the stories about this young detective who was introduced in 1963
Encylcopedia Brown
Children’s Lit: Chapter I of this Lewis Carroll book says, “the glass was beginning to melt away, just like a bright silvery mist”
Through the Looking Glass
Children’s Lit: Sketches written for punch became his first novel, “Lovers in London”, Winnie-the-Pooh came 21 years later.
AA Milne
Children’s Literature: A classic book by George Selden tells of this noisy insect “in Times Square”
a Cricket
20TH CENTURY: In an attempt to return it to its native Italy, this painting was stolen from the Louvre in 1911
the Mona Lisa
ART: The “Mona Lisa” was one of the few paintings he finished during his 2nd residence in Florence
Leonardo da Vinci
AUTHORS’ MIDDLE NAMES: Hans Andersen’s middle name
Christian
LITERARY OPENINGS: The first in a series: “Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy”
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
MY MAINE MAN: In 1998 Bill Gates paid a record $30 million for this Maine artist’s seascape “Lost on the Grand Banks”
Winslow Homer
DIGESTING SOME LITERATURE: A true glutton, this “Charlie & the Chocolate Factory” character gets sent up the (chocolate) river
Augustus Gloop
