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Girls Standing on Lawns

By Daniel Handler
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Girls Standing on Lawns by Daniel Handler is a children's book that combines vivid photography with narrative to explore themes of identity, history, and the passage of time. Through a collection of photographs at MoMA and evocative storytelling, it captures moments of girls standing on lawns across different eras, inviting readers to reflect on the stories behind each image. The book beautifully blends visuals with prose to create a unique reading experience.
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This book may appeal to you if you enjoy a blend of storytelling and photography, where Daniel Handler's evocative prose brings vivid narratives to life alongside whimsical vintage images. It's perfect for readers who appreciate a unique exploration of art and family, delivered with charm and nostalgia.

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Bestselling artist Maira Kalman, and bestselling author Daniel Handler (a.k.a Lemony Snicket) together offer a fresh, fun, creative look at childhood, nostalgia, home, and the act of seeing.

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Girls Standing on Lawns is a unique collaboration between renowned artist and bestselling children's book author Maira Kalman and New York Times bestselling writer Daniel Handler, better known as Lemony Snicket.

This clever book contains 40 vintage photographs from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, more than a dozen original paintings by Kalman inspired by the photographs, and brief, lyrical texts by Handler.

Poetic and thought-provoking, Girls Standing on Lawns is a meditation on memories, childhood, nostalgia, home, family and the act of seeing. The gorgeous visual material sets the stage for what Handler succinctly describes as 'a photograph, a painting, a sentence, a pose.'

Girls, women, families, and even pets from days gone by grace the pages, looking out at us, enticing readers to imagine these people, their lives - and where they have gone.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780870709081

Publisher: Museum of Modern Art

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 06 May 2014

Country: United States

Imprint: Museum of Modern Art

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Maira Kalman

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 12.0mm

Width: 155.0mm

Height: 213.0mm

Weight: 270g

Pages: 64

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Children's Books Children's Picture Books Children’s, Teenage and Educational Daniel Handler

About the Author

Maira Kalman is a bestselling and award-winning artist, illustrator, and writer. Girls Standing on Lawns is the first title in a series of illustrated children's books Kalman will be publishing with MoMA, inspired by MoMA's photography collection. Daniel Handler is the internationally renowned author of the A Series of Unfortunate Events series, whose books have sold over 60 million copies in 44 languages.

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