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School Library Journal
Reviewed on January 1, 2015 | Preschool to Grade 4
PreS-Gr 2—Children are introduced to a lesser-known contemporary Midwestern American artist in this picture-book biography of Mary Nohl (1914–2001). A spare narrative allows the pictures to describe how, from childhood, Nohl's imagination soared as she explored the many interests that led her to combine found objects with cement to create fantastical creatures, eventually installed in the garden surround...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on March 1, 2015
As a girl, Mary "was happiest when her hands were busy making, building, creating things." As she grew up and traveled around the world, those early interests developed into a love for art. She returns to the Wisconsin lake house she'd helped her father build and begins a lifelong art project there, gathering found items from the beach, assembling scraps, building frames, mixing concrete, and erecting a menagerie ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2015
As a girl, Mary Nohl "was happiest when her hands were busy making, building, creating things." Later she returns to the Wisconsin lake house ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
