Coinciding with the th year of Thurber's birth in , two new books of the twentieth century's best known humorist's fables and illustrations were published.
"Every sport has its Ultimate, its Greatest of All Time: Babe Ruth, Ali, Nicklaus, Pelé, Federer, The Don. The sport of creating laugh-out-loud cartoons, fables, and funny essays has Thurber. He is, and probably always will be, The One.”
—Stephen Fry
“… you can hear in every anthropomorphic character or see in every Thurber illustration, the joy of a life well laughed.”
—from the Foreword by Keith Olbermann
"Thurber celebrates the losers, the awkward, the unpopular…and yet he’s never a smug observer.”
—Tracey Ullman
“James Thurber taught me how to read. His pictures were so weirdly intriguing that I had to know more, so into the words I went, and things just got funnier. It’s one of the longest and most important relationships in my reading life.”
—actor Michael McKean
Published to coincide with the th anniversary of James Thurber’s birth, this treasury combines, for the first time, Fables for Our Time and Further Fables for Our Time with Thurber’s unpublished preface and ten previously unc
Michael J. Rosen
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Columbus, Ohio , The United StatesWebsite
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Children's Books, Poetry, Humor
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Nonetheless: Michael J. Rosen is an American author and illustrator with over books of fiction, nonfiction, humor, picture books, poetry, and more. With a strong interest in nature and animals, reflecting his animal behavior degree from Ohio State University, Rosen resides within a peaceful crease of Central Ohio with his pack of animal companions that include 2 small koi ponds he helped build on the acres he shares in the foothills of the Ohio Appalachians. An avid dog lover, he was inspired by Chant, his newest Australian stumpy-tail cattle dog, which led to the creation of his newest book of fiction, The Tale of Rescue, which will be released in OctRosen's Webs
Columbus native, Michael J. Rosen is a creator of art in many forms. Best known as the author a wide variety of more than books for both adults and young readers—poet, editor, writer of fiction and non-fiction, humorist,, playwright, and longtime champion and editor of James Thurber's works—he has worked in the field of art, design, and illustration even since first publishing drawings in The New Yorker and Gourmet while he was in graduate school.
His ceramics have been exhibited throughout the area and are currently featured at the Columbus Museum of Art. His design work and illustrations have appeared in countless magazines, brochures, advertising programs, and exhibitions.
Many of his books engage his degree in zoology and his passion for nature and the creatures who share this world. For the last 22 years, he’s lived on forested acres in the foothills of the Appalachians, east of Columbus, Ohio, where he spent most of his life.
Fifteen of his books including SPEAK!, Down to Earth, and The Greatest Table (Harcourt), and Home (HarperCollins) were created with the generosity of hundreds of the country’s best-known illustrators, photographers, authors, and cartoonists as c
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