{"id":1792,"date":"2014-10-28T04:27:14","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T09:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/?p=1792"},"modified":"2014-10-28T04:27:14","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T09:27:14","slug":"freeman-don","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/freeman-don\/","title":{"rendered":"Freeman, Don"},"content":{"rendered":"<table class=\"ae_table alignright\" style=\"width: auto; height: auto;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-top-left\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1796 size-full\" title=\"book-cover-generic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ph_free.jpg\" alt=\"Don Freeman\" width=\"140\" height=\"178\" \/><\/td>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-top-right\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1794 size-full\" title=\"book-cover-generic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/bk_dandl.jpg\" alt=\"Dandelion\" width=\"140\" height=\"112\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-bot-left\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1795 size-full\" title=\"book-cover-generic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/bk_normn.jpg\" alt=\"Norman the Doorman\" width=\"140\" height=\"122\" \/><\/td>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-bot-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1793 size-full\" title=\"book-cover-generic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/bk_crdry.jpg\" alt=\"Corduroy\" width=\"140\" height=\"114\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Author and illustrator Don Freeman, born on August 11, 1908, is well-known for his <i>Corduroy<\/i> stories and <i>Norman the Doorman<\/i> (1959). Both titles are enduring favorites of young children who can easily relate to Corduroy&#8217;s search for a missing button, wanting to find a home, and Norman&#8217;s joy when he wins the prize for the best designed mousetrap. Freeman&#8217;s art has appeal for readers of all ages who sense his sincerity and humor.<\/p>\n<p>The Society of Children&#8217;s Book Writers and Illustrators have established a grant in Don Freeman&#8217;s name. His works are held by major art galleries and libraries including The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, the San Francisco Fine Arts Museum, the British Museum, and in the Children&#8217;s Literature Resource Collection (Kerlan Collection) at the University of Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Freeman died in 1978.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ae-byline\">\u2014\u00a0Leslie Greaves Radloff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author and illustrator Don Freeman, born on August 11, 1908, is well-known for his Corduroy stories and Norman the Doorman (1959). Both titles are enduring favorites of young children who can easily relate to Corduroy&#8217;s search for a missing button, wanting to find a home, and Norman&#8217;s joy when he wins the prize for the &#8230; <a title=\"Freeman, Don\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/freeman-don\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Freeman, Don\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[789],"tags":[542,957,432,408,952,951,369,933,953,469,956,954,955],"class_list":["post-1792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-f","tag-author","tag-british-museum","tag-childrens-books","tag-childrens-literature","tag-corduroy","tag-don-freeman","tag-illustrator","tag-kerlan-collection","tag-norman-the-doorman","tag-picture-books","tag-san-francisco-fine-arts-museum","tag-society-of-childrens-book-writers-and-illustrators","tag-university-of-minnesota"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p51Nzs-sU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}