When his family accidentally left him in the desert, he was found and subsequently raised by a wild pack of coyotes! This is an excellent and imaginative story in the widely-loved American Tall tale tradition. Show More grizzly bears instead of teddy bears. Because of this, McCurdy’s illustrations seem almost quaint at times however, he does “modernize” these pictures by adding stylized elements (particularly poses and settings) that lend a “cartoonish” quality that will make the artwork more accessible to young children.
Michael McCurdy’s wood engraving illustrations are remarkable unique: like the tall tales described in the book, wood engravings come from an Americana tradition that evolved quickly into other graphic forms. Clearly, Osborne enjoys the “larger-than-life” tone of tall tales and keeps this tone alive in her version of the story. In the actual story of “John Henry” she has written, Osborne embraces the “fantasy” of tall tales, including the claims that John Henry was born with a hammer in his hand and that he did the work of five men at the same time. Mary her husband Will spilt their time between an apartment in Greenwich Village, New York and a cabin in Pennsylvania.Show More John Henry stories, dating their creation to the 1870’s. In February 1993, Mary was elected the 27th president of the Author's Guild, the oldest, most established organization for writers in the United States. She was a bartender, an acting teacher, a waitress, a travel agent, a window dresser, and a medical assistant - all before becoming an author! Now she is the author of many highly acclaimed picture books, early chapter books, middle-grade biographies, and young adult novels. She then joined up with a group of European young people and traveled in rickety vans through sixteen Asian countries, including Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Nepal. After graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the early 1970's, Mary traveled all over Europe, and spent the first six weeks of her trip living in a cave on the island of Crete. Mary Pope Osborne grew up in the military, and by the time she was fifteen had lived in Oklahoma, Austria, Florida and four different army posts in Virginia and North Carolina.
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