The Brontes - Hardcover

Brighton, Catherine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0811806081 ISBN 13: 9780811806084

Publisher: Chronicle Books Llc, 1994

Synopsis

Presents selections from Charlotte Brontes childhood writings, featuring the imaginary games she played with her brother and sisters and the fanciful stories they created

About this title

About the Author:

Catherine Brighton trained at St Martin's College of Art and the Royal College of Art. She has held exhibitions of her work in the Barbican, London, at the Bath Festival, and at a Southern Arts travelling exhibition. She is now a successful full-time author/illustrator of children's books. She lives in London.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 2-4-Brighton, whose child's-eye view of Mozart (Doubleday, 1990) may enlighten young music lovers, has attempted to illuminate four other prodigies-the Bronte children-by illustrating parts of Charlotte's early journals. It is unlikely that readers will come to this book with any experience or knowledge of the subject, and the use of Charlotte's own words precludes much explanation of just who these children were. The author tries to compensate for this by providing a very brief prologue and epilogue to put the journal entries in context. Many of Charlotte's vignettes are charming fantasies or thumbnail sketches of life on the moors. They have an appeal that may entice youthful dreamers. The detailed watercolors evoke the openness of the landscape, but Brighton's attempts to illustrate the children's fantasies within the scenes of their real life are less successful. The characters' faces have a flat, universal quality and vary little from those depicted in her other books, except in hairstyle and clothing. This might be the sort of serendipitous reading that will be dimly remembered and provide easier entry to Jane Eyre later on.
Sally Margolis, Deerfield Public Library, IL
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Chronicle Books Llc
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0811806081
• ISBN 13: 9780811806084
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 24