Seabird A scrimshaw ivory gull is the mascot for four generations of seafarers aboard a whaler, a clipper ship, a steamer, and an airplane.Tree in the Trail A cottonwood tree watches the pageant of history on the Santa Fe Trail for over two hundred years.Paddle-to-the-Sea A small canoe carved by an Indian boy makes a journey from Lake Superior all the way to the Atlantic Ocean.The Rollaway Twins and Their Famous World Flight: A Complete News-Reel. Sun and Smoke, A Book of New Mexico, Holling Clancy Holling, 1923.With his wife, Lucille, he received the Southern California Council on Literature Award in 1961 for Pagoo. He was a runner-up for the Newbery Medal again in 1952 for Minn of the Mississippi. He received the Commonwealth Club of California Literature Award in 1948 for Seabird, which was also a runner-up for the Newbery Medal in 1949.

He was a runner-up for the Caldecott Medal in 1942 for Paddle-to-the-Sea. His wife, Lucille, worked with him on many of the illustrations. Much of the material he used was known to him firsthand. For many years, Holling dedicated much of his time and interest to making books for children. Ralph Linton.ĭuring this period, he married Lucille Webster and within a year of their marriage accepted a position as art instructor on the first University World Cruise, sponsored by New York University. He worked in a taxidermy department of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago and spent time working in anthropology under Dr. A number of his early works were first published by P.

In 1966, Bill Mason directed the Oscar-nominated short film Paddle to the Sea, based on Holling's book, for the National Film Board of Canada.īorn in Jackson County, Michigan, Holling graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1923. Paddle to the Sea won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1962. Holling Clancy Holling (born Holling Allison Clancy, Aug– September 7, 1973) was an American writer and illustrator, best known for the book Paddle-to-the-Sea, which was a Caldecott Honor Book in 1942.

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