Pelican here, pelican there : production material, 1948.

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Pelican here, pelican there : production material, 1948.

Two pelicans live on Pelican Island off the coast of Florida, but a big storm blows one all the way up north where pelicans should never be. He starts for home, flying over all the interesting places along the Eastern Seaboard, but never stops to look until he reaches his own big pelican and their nest of babies. The collection comprises a corrected typescript and 1 tempera illustrations.

Illustrations : 2 items.Manuscripts : 1 folder.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7817418

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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Weisgard, Leonard, 1916-2000

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Leonard Weisgard, Caldecott award-winning illustrator of more than 200 children's books was perhaps best known for his collaboration with the author Margaret Wise Brown. Weisgard was born in New Haven, Connecticut but spent much of his early childhood in England, where his father originally came from. "Books", he once said in an interview, "have always, for as long as I can recall, been a source of real magic in this wildly confusing world." From the description of Leonard Weisgard p...