Alice Provensen (1918–2018)
Author of The glorious flight : across the Channel with Louis Blériot, July 25, 1909
About the Author
Alice Provensen was born Alice Rose Twitchell in Chicago, Illinois on August 14, 1918. She took classes at the Art Institute of Chicago and at the University of California at Los Angeles before finding a job at the animation studio of Walter Lantz. She met her future husband, Martin Provensen, show more while he was working on a Navy training film during World War II. They married in 1944 and relocated to Washington D.C., where she worked as a graphic artist for the Office of Strategic Services. They later moved to New York and became known as an author-illustrator picture book team. They created many award-winning picture books including A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Inexperienced Travelers by Nancy Willard, which won a 1982 Caldecott Honor, and The Glorious Flight: Across the Channel with Louis Bleriot, which won the 1984 Caldecott Medal. Their other books included A Year at Maple Hill Farm, Our Animal Friends at Maple Hill Farm, Karen's Curiosity, Karen's Opposites, The Fuzzy Duckling, Katie the Kitten, The Color Kittens by Margaret Wise Brown, and A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson. They also created Tony the Tiger, which was the advertising symbol of Kellogg's Frosted Flakes. She continued working after her husband's death in 1987. Her books included The Buck Stops Here: The Presidents of the United States, A Day in the Life of Murphy, Punch in New York, and Klondike Gold. She died on April 23, 2018 at the age of 99. show less
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Works by Alice Provensen
Associated Works
A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers (1981) — Illustrator — 1,562 copies
The Voyage of the Ludgate Hill: Travels with Robert Louis Stevenson (1987) — Illustrator — 150 copies
The Iliad and the Odyssey: The Heroic Story of the Trojan War and the Fabulous Adventures of Odysseus (1956) — Illustrator — 127 copies
The Golden Treasury of Children's Literature Volume 09: Legendary Animals (1954) — Illustrator, some editions — 19 copies
The Holy Bible The Old Testament and New Adapted for Young Catholic Readers (1960) — Illustrator — 17 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Provensen, Alice Rose
- Other names
- Twitchell, Alice Rose (birth name)
- Birthdate
- 1918-08-14
- Date of death
- 2018-04-23
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Place of death
- San Clemente, California, USA
- Places of residence
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Education
- School of the Art Institute of Chicago
University of California - Occupations
- children's book author
illustrator - Relationships
- Provensen, Martin (husband)
- Organizations
- Walter Lantz Studio
- Awards and honors
- Society of Illustrators Lifetime Achievement Award (Historic, 2010)
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Reviews
The Year At Maple Hill Farm by Alice Provensen
Useful for talking about months of the year and seasons to younger kids.
This book is delightful and funny. It describes the characters and activities of all the animals on the farm.
Many of us have a book or two from their early childhood that we seek out as adults with memories based on half-remembered (and frequently misremembered) details. This picture book was one of mine, and I just found it! The only particulars I had to work off of were 1) an illustration of an ice-skating boy positioned with his skates perpendicular to one another (incidentally, this gave me the conviction that this is how one skated), and 2) the last page depicted a garden archway covered in flowers.
As for the book itself, it's a joyful look at all the fun things there are to do as the seasons change (assuming you live in a clime with changing seasons). The illustrations are cute, and I'm delighted to have successfully hunted it down, despite it being out of print and not having aged well with respect to diverse representation.… (more)
As for the book itself, it's a joyful look at all the fun things there are to do as the seasons change (assuming you live in a clime with changing seasons). The illustrations are cute, and I'm delighted to have successfully hunted it down, despite it being out of print and not having aged well with respect to diverse representation.… (more)
A truly beautiful, charming book. Newly released from a set of unpublished dummy pages by the celebrated illustrators Alice and Martin Provenson, it’s a character sketch of the farm cat Max, a singleton kitten who grows up to taunt other cats, smile at the horse, torment the dog, chase the chickens, and who LOVES to help make the bed. The ink and watercolor pictures are riotous, funny, and display Max in all his moods, and his lovely farm in all its glories of trees and grasses and the evening sky…when Max’s “real life” begins. The final image brought a tear of wonder to this reader’s eye, evoking my own rambunctious, complicated, serious and mischievous rural tabby cat. I cherish this little book… (more)
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- Rating
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