Patricia Polacco: http://www.edupaperback.org/showauth.cfm?authid=39 "Polacco has a rich heritage: her great-grandparents emigrated from Soviet Georgia, and other family members were Irish and Jewish; in addition, she was brought up among people from other ethnic groups than her own, and with all of these influences, and with a tradition of family members as storytellers, poets, farmers, teachers, and artists, she has much to draw upon for the books she writes and illustrates.
As a child, holidays like Christmas and Epiphany were celebrated in the Russian tradition. Uncle Vova's Tree is a book that comes from that experience. And The Keeping Quilt is a story based upon a real quilt that has been passed down in her own family through generations. Pink and Say is a true story of the Civil War that was passed down by Polacco's great-great-grandfather, who spent time in Andersonville Prison where he became friends with a black soldier." Arnold Lobel: Could not find anything definitive online. Try a book by George Shannon entitled "Arnold Lobel" (Twayne, 1989) Fun fact: Arnold Lobel's daugther Adrianne is married to Mark Linn-Baker, who played "Cousin Larry" on the 1980s sitcom "Perfect Strangers". Tracy Z. Maleeff Pitt MLIS '05 Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the AJL =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
