Origin of "Miss Flora McFlimsey" books by Mariana

lenona321 · Joined: 15 Aug 2007 Posts: 915

It seems her name came from a 19th-century poem, "Nothing to Wear," by
William Allen Butler.

http://www.bartleby.com/102/157.html

Note that the spelling is different.

I can't stand that the 1980s editions of Mariana's books do not have
the exact same abstract watercolor illustrations as the originals.
Considering that other not-so-famous illustrators' works have been
faithfully reproduced, why couldn't they do it for HER books?

Lenona.

Archived from group: rec>arts>books>childrens

"Beware of literate eavesdroppers" - Miss Manners column & H Excerpt: Q: At dinner with a friend, where the neighboring table was no more than a foot away, I mentioned that I had recently completed reading the final Harry Potter book. She asked me to tell her who had died in t

Happy 75th, Ernest J. Gaines! ("The Autobiography of Miss Ja A winner of multiple awards, he divides his time between San Francisco and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where he teaches creative writing. I remember reading "The Sky is Gray" for fun in an textbook. It made a big impression o

Happy 80th, Harry Allard! ("The Stupids" and "Miss Nelson" b He lives in Oaxaca, Mexico. "He grew up in California, Long Island, and Chicago." In "Major Authors and Illustrators for Children and Young Adults": In 1968, Allard began teaching in the department of foreign languages at Salem State College in Salem, Mas

Happy 80th, Joseph F. Slate! ("Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready He lives in Silver Spring, Maryland. Also a painter and art professor, but all his books are illustrated by others. (includes covers)

Books to read before you die British librarians have compiled a list of 30 books to read before you die. It has some strange inclusions, and some strange omissions. One of the inclusions is "Lord of the Rings". Well, no surprise there. But they also include Philip Pullman's "His dark