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Flashcards in Arts and Literature Mix Deck (12)
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Children’s Literature: This bear is named for a train station and arrives in England as a stowaway from South America

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Paddington

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Children’s Lit: Sally and her brother were looking out the window on a rainy day when they saw him standing on a doormat

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Cat in the Hat

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Children’s Literature: Bugs Meany is often the villain in the stories about this young detective who was introduced in 1963

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Encylcopedia Brown

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Children’s Lit: Chapter I of this Lewis Carroll book says, “the glass was beginning to melt away, just like a bright silvery mist”

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Through the Looking Glass

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Children’s Lit: Sketches written for punch became his first novel, “Lovers in London”, Winnie-the-Pooh came 21 years later.

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AA Milne

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Children’s Literature: A classic book by George Selden tells of this noisy insect “in Times Square”

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a Cricket

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20TH CENTURY: In an attempt to return it to its native Italy, this painting was stolen from the Louvre in 1911

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the Mona Lisa

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ART: The “Mona Lisa” was one of the few paintings he finished during his 2nd residence in Florence

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Leonardo da Vinci

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AUTHORS’ MIDDLE NAMES: Hans Andersen’s middle name

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Christian

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LITERARY OPENINGS: The first in a series: “Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy”

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The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe

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MY MAINE MAN: In 1998 Bill Gates paid a record $30 million for this Maine artist’s seascape “Lost on the Grand Banks”

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Winslow Homer

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DIGESTING SOME LITERATURE: A true glutton, this “Charlie & the Chocolate Factory” character gets sent up the (chocolate) river

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Augustus Gloop