Happy 90th, Joan Walsh Anglund! (Writer/illustrator: "A Friend is Someone Who Likes You," 1958)

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She lives in Suffield, Connecticut.

In case anyone needs reminding, she's famous for her drawings of cute kids with
inkspot eyes and no mouths or instantly visible noses.

I knew her mainly for her illustrations in the 1959 "The Golden Treasury of Poetry," ed. Louis Untermeyer. In that one, there are also pictures of normal-looking kids. (Not to be confused with the 1987 book "The Joan Walsh Anglund Book of Poetry.") It also has plenty of normal-looking adults - and some not so normal looking, especially if you count the pencil-thin woman in "Moy Castle"!

Here are some of them (mixed in with pictures not in the book):

https://www.google.com/search?q=anglund+%22golden+treasury%22&biw=1280&bih=558&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj4hN6Jzo7KAhVCWCYKHUB7AgUQ_AUIBygC

The book was reissued in 1998 with some poems removed; look here to see which ones.

http://forums.abebooks.com/discussions/AbeBookscom_BookSleuthreg/_/_/abesleuthcom/28057.1?mobile=y

I can't believe she only has ONE entry in the "Something About the Author" encyclopedia series - and that was in the early 1970s! However, she does have an 11-page entry in volume 94 of the "Children's Literature Review" encyclopedias - from 2004, I think.

One of her more popular 1950s books is "The Brave Cowboy." (In 2000, it was reissued, with a change - the "Indians" were changed to bank robbers.)

http://www.joanwalshanglund.com/about.htm
(includes old photo and list of famous fans of hers)


"Her characters grace figurines, hand-made plaques, notecards, cross stitch patterns and ornaments."

"Joan Walsh Anglund was born January 3, 1926, in Hinsdale, IL. She studied at the Chicago Art Institute in 1944 and the American Academy of Art in 1945. This followed with an apprenticeship with a commercial artist in Chicago, Adele Roth. Anglund spent the majority of her life free-lancing drawing and full-time writing and illustrating, composing over twenty titles." ("Something About the Author" encyclopedia series)

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/108951.Joan_Walsh_Anglund
(reviews and some covers)

http://www.loganberrybooks.com/books/authors/joan-walsh-anglund.htm
(more titles, plus the cover of "The Golden Treasury of Poetry," ed. Louis Untermeyer)

https://wordglow.wordpress.com/2011/09/18/an-open-letter-to-joan-walsh-anglund/
(about her books, from 2011)

From Wikipedia:

"In 2015 a United States Postal Service stamp was issued commemorating the American author and poet Maya Angelou with the Joan Walsh Anglund quote 'A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song' though the stamp apparently attributes the quote to Angelou. The quote is from Anglund's book of poems A Cup of Sun (1967). President Obama also wrongly attributed the sentence to Angelou during the presentation of the 2013 National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal."

More on that:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/book-author-joan-walsh-anglund-claims-angelou-quote-on-stamp/2015/04/06/62d31934-dcc8-11e4-acfe-cd057abefa9a_story.html

And here you can see an 80-minute interview with her, from 2014!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkyMMxFCHQ0
(it's in Lexington, Kentucky)

http://www.kentucky.com/living/family/article44510133.html
(long article about the above interview - beforehand)

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#tbm=vid&q=%22joan+walsh+anglund%22
(more videos)

I was amazed to see she'd illustrated one book in the 1940s - by Robbie Trent, known mainly for Bible story retellings, but also for her novel "Susan"!


WRITINGS:
PUBLISHED BY HARCOURT, EXCEPT AS INDICATED

(Illustrator) Robbie Trent, To Church We Go, Wilcox & Follett, 1948.
A Friend Is Someone Who Likes You, 1958, new edition, 1983.
The Brave Cowboy, 1959.
Look Out the Window, 1959.
In a Pumpkin Shell: A Mother Goose ABC, 1960.
Love Is a Special Way of Feeling, 1960.
Christmas Is a Time of Giving, 1961.
Cowboy and His Friend, 1961.
(Illustrator) Louis Untermeyer, For You with Love: A Poem, Golden Press, 1961.
Nibble, Nibble Mousekin: A Tale of Hansel and Gretel, 1962.
Cowboy's Secret Life, 1963.
Joan Walsh Anglund Sampler, 1963.
Spring Is a New Beginning, 1963.
Childhood Is a Time of Innocence, 1964.
A Pocketful of Proverbs, 1964.
A Book of Good Tidings from the Bible, 1965.
What Color Is Love?, 1966.
A Year Is Round, 1966.
A Cup of Sun (poems for adults), 1967.
A Is for Always, 1968.
Morning Is a Little Child, 1969.
A Slice of Snow (poems for adults), 1970.
Packet of Pictures, 1970.
(Illustrator) Louis Untermeyer, compiler, The Golden Book of Poems for the Very Young , Golden Press, 1971.
Do You Love Someone?, 1971.
The Cowboy's Christmas, Atheneum, 1972.
A Child's Book of Old Nursery Rhymes, Atheneum, 1973.
Goodbye, Yesterday (poems), Atheneum, 1974.
A Birthday Book, Determined Productions, 1975.
A Christmas Cookie Book, Determined Productions, 1977.
The Joan Walsh Anglund Storybook, Random House, 1978.
Emily and Adam (contains The Emily Book, The Adam Book, and The Emily and Adam Book of Opposites), Random House, 1979.
Almost a Rainbow: A Book of Poems, Random House, 1980.
A Gift of Love, five volumes, 1980.
Love One Another, Determined Productions, 1981.
Rainbow Love, Determined Productions, 1982.
Christmas Candy Book, Determined Productions, 1983.
A Christmas Book, Random House, 1983.
The Circle of the Spirit, Random House, 1983.
See the Year, Random House, 1984.
The Joan Walsh Anglund Coloring Book, Random House, 1984.
Memories of the Heart, Random House, 1984.
Baby Brother, Random House, 1985.
Teddy Bear Tales, Random House, 1985.
Christmas Is Here, Random House, 1986.
A Book of Poetry, Random House, 1987.
The Song of Love, Scribner's, 1987.
How Many Days Has Baby to Play?, 1988.
Christmas Is Love, 1988.
A Little Book of Poems & Prayers, Simon and Schuster, 1989.
Crocus in the Snow: A Book of Poems, Random House, 1990.
(Illustrator) A Mother Goose Book, 1991.
Love Is a Baby, 1992.
The Way of Love, Random House, 1992.
A Bedtime Book, Simon & Schuster, 1993.
The Friend We Have Not Met: Poems of Consolation, Random House, 1993.
Peace is a Circle of Love, 1993.
Wings of Hope: A Book of Poems, Random House, 1994.
Angels: A Book of Poems, Random House, 1995.
Joan Walsh Anglund's Mother Goose Pop-Up Book, paper engineering by Bruce Reifel, Little Simon, 1995.
Poems of Childhood, 1996.
Sweet Dreams: Three Sleepytime Books of Poems, Prayers, and Lullabies, Little Simon, 1996.
Merry Christmas, Baby, Western, 1996.
Little Angel's Alphabet of Love, Little Simon, 1997.
A Child's Year, Golden Books, 1997.
Little Angels' Book of Christmas, Little Simon, 1997.
Love Always Remembers: A Book of Poems, Random House, 1997.
Love Is Forever, 1998.
(Illustrator) The Golden Books Family Treasury of Poetry, Golden Books, 1998.
A Patchwork of Love, Andrews McMeel, 1998.
The Jewels of the Spirit, Andrews McMeel, 1998.
Prayer is a Gentle Way of Being with God, Shaw, 1999.
My Busy Day, Little Simon, 1999.
My Busy Year, Little Simon, 1999.
A Christmas Alphabet, Andrews McMeel, 1999.
In All Thy Ways-- A Book of Bible Verses, Shaw, 1999.
Be My Friend, Little Simon, 2000.
Happy Birthday, Andrews McMeel (Kansas City, MO), 2000.
Between Friends, Andrews McMeel (Kansas City, MO), 2000.
(And illustrator) The Brave Cowboy, Andrews McMeel (Kansas City, MO), 2000.
(And illustrator) A Christmas Sampler, 2001.
Babies Are a Bit of Heaven, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers (New York, NY), 2002.
The Christmas Cookie Book, Andrews McMeel (Kansas City, MO), 2002.
(And illustrator) Cowboy and His Friend, Andrews McMeel (Kansas City, MO), 2002.
(Illustrator) Cowboy's Secret Life, Andrews McMeel (Kansas City, MO), 2002.
The Adventures of the Brave Cowboy, MJF Books (New York, NY), 2003.
(And illustrator) The Cowboy's Christmas, Andrews McMeel (Kansas City, MO), 2004.
(And illustrator) Love is the Best Teacher, Andrews McMeel (Kansas City, MO), 2004.
(Illustrator) My Sister, My Friend, Andrews McMeel (Kansas City, MO), 2004.
(And illustrator) Baby Dear, Andrews McMeel (Kansas City, MO), 2005.
(And illustrator) Faith Is a Flower, Andrews McMeel (Kansas City, MO), 2006.



Lenona.