![]() ![]() Strawberry Girl.Blue Ridge Billy.Judy's Journey. ![]() She attended Westminster School of Art in London, England. Lenski was born in Springfield, Ohio, and she completed her BS in Education and received a teaching certificate from Ohio State University in 1915. What interested me most was the way children were living" (183).In Journey Into Childhood, Lenski wrote that she was struck by the fact that there were "plenty of books that tell how children live in Alaska, Holland, China, and Mexico, but no books at all telling about the many ways children live here in the United States" Bayou Suzette. Lois Lenski (October 14, 1893-September 11, 1974) was an author and illustrator of children’s literature. I saw and learned what the word region meant as I witnessed firsthand different ways of life unlike my own. Lenski wrote in her autobiography, "On my trips south I saw the real America for the first time. As a result, Lenski and her husband Arthur Covey traveled south each fall. Description: of Lenski's books can be collated into 'series' - but since they don't have to be read in order, you may be better off just looking for more information here: her most famous set is the following:American Regional SeriesBeginning with Bayou Suzette in 1943, Lois Lenski began writing a series of books which would become known as her "regional series." In the early 1940s Lenski, who suffered from periodic bouts of ill-health, was told by her doctor that she needed to spend the winter months in a warmer climate than her Connecticut home. ![]() ![]() Born: in Springfield, Ohio, The United States. ![]()
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