at least fifty close relatives showed up at the annual family picnic held up or down the Lake Michigan shore.”Įllen Raskin describes herself as a “self-critical, running-scared, compulsive perfectionist” since the age of ten. I was also surrounded by real people, lots of them. My sister and I would spend weeks at a time acting out the lives of at least ten characters each. “As far back as I can remember, I invented characters. had a singing range of three wrong notes, spilled ink on best dress, lost piano to a finance company…” and always had her nose in a book, according to her own account of autobiographical elements in her books, published in The Horn Book, December, 1978. As a child during the Depression years, she “…had straight dark hair, tap-danced with two left feet. Her symposium paper, published in Wilson Library Bulletin, October, 1978, reveals, in part, Raskin’s perception of the role her Wisconsin background played in her development as a “bookmaker,” the word she chooses as most descriptive of her workĮllen Raskin was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on March 13, 1928. Illustrator, writer, and designer Ellen Raskin said this about her work at a symposium, “The Creative Spirit and Children’s Literature,” held July 11-15, 1977, at the University of California-Berkeley’s School of Library and Information Studies. A book is a package, a gift package, a surprise package - and within the wrappings is a whole new world and beyond.” “I try to say one thing with my work: A book is a wonderful place to be. Notable Wisconsin Author Ellen Raskin by Ginny Moore Kruse
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