Decide on and publish a list of rules, criteria for prizes and, of course, the prizes. Their chances take a nose dive, however, when they see that the best girl dancer has teamed up with the dreadful Charles Andrew Frothingham.Īctivity: Organize your own dance contest. Spud and Joe are indignant when their parents enroll them in a dance class until they find out about a dance contest where the prize is a lunar walker. Find other stuffy names in picture books.
Seuss's Five Hundred Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins.Īctivity: With a name like Frothingham, Charles Andrew is bound to be a bit prissy. Spurgle's nephew, Charles Andrew Frothingham with the Grand Duke Wilfred in Dr. Then they find out that the camp director is none other than their old nemesis, school principal Mr. Spud's mother knows it's trouble and says as they head off, "That camp will never be the same". Look at many books in one series and then try to decide what Marshall is trying to tell us.īooks Written & Illustrated by James Marshall: James Marshall's work can be categorized as fairy tale renditions, series such as The Cut-ups, Miss Nelson, and George & Martha. Notice the things about Texas that he puts in the Miss Nelson series. Also notice the stacks of items, often about to fall over which are reminiscent of Dr. Watch for the fat cats which he puts in almost every book. Things You Might Like to Do with His Work in General: His fairy tale renditions are full of sly humor. In those books, his characters change very little.
He has several books in series: Miss Nelson, George & Martha, The Cut-Ups, The Stupids and The Rats, for instance. James Marshall's work is usually gently humorous. His first book, George and Martha, was inspired by a famous play, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf" in which the main characters were named George and Martha.įor many years he divided his time between an apartment in New York City and his home in Mansfield Hollow, Connecticut. James Marshall taught Spanish in a Catholic school near Boston upon graduation from college. He met Harry Allard, with whom he later wrote many picture books, when he was a student at Trinity College. Then his hand was injured during an airplane flight and his musical career was finished. James Marshall studied to play the viola and intended to have a musical career. James Marshall was born in San Antonio, Texas where his father worked for the railroad and had a dance band. This is an excerpt from Open Books: Literature in the Curriculum by Carol Otis Hurst. Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Newsletter Spring 1999.īy Carol Hurst and Rebecca Otis.
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