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A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains is a travel book by British explorer Isabella Bird, describing her 1873 trip to the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, the on the frontier of the United States. The book is a compilation of letters that Bird wrote to her sister, Henrietta, and was published in October 1879 [ 1 ] [ 2 ] by John Murray .
Benjamin cites The Secret Garden, Harriet the Spy, and From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler as shaping her reading life as a child. The Thing About Jellyfish was inspired in part by a trip Benjamin took to an aquarium, and influenced a novel she had been developing about a girl in middle school and her sibling.
Benjamin is known for her debut novel The Thing About Jellyfish, which was a National Book Award for Young People's Literature finalist in 2015, [1] and a New York Times Best Seller. [2] The Thing about Jellyfish is the story of a girl named Suzy who becomes convinced that her friend's accidental drowning was the result of a rare jellyfish ...
The Little Girl in Blue is an oil painting on canvas created in 1934 near Amritsar, India, by Hungarian-Indian artist Amrita Sher-Gil (1913 – 1941). Under India's Antiquities and Art Treasures Act (1972) , the work is a national art treasure and must stay in the country.
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog [a] is a painting by German Romanticist artist Caspar David Friedrich made in 1818. [2] It depicts a man standing upon a rocky precipice with his back to the viewer; he is gazing out on a landscape covered in a thick sea of fog through which other ridges, trees, and mountains pierce, which stretches out into the distance indefinitely.
The painting depicts a young peasant girl, standing in profile on a hillside, transferring wool fibers from a distaff to a spindle that dangles from her right hand. She is barefoot and wears traditional costume consisting of a white shirt with sleeves rolled up, a blue frock, and a tattered red apron that sways in the wind.
At the Mountain's Base received starred reviews from School Library Journal, [1] Booklist, [2] and Shelf Awareness, [3] as well as positive reviews from Publishers Weekly, [4] American Indians in Children's Literature, [5] and Kirkus. [6] Bank Street College of Education named At the Mountain's Base one of the best children's books of 2020. [7]
The artwork measures 41 by 29 cm, and is composed of oil paint on canvas. The portrait shows a twelve-year-old girl known only as Isabella, posing in Maris' studio at 498 Keizersgracht, Amsterdam. [2] She is sitting in a wooden cushioned armchair, with goat heads carved into the armrests.