The Marjorie Flack Award for Fiction consists of a $250 prize for the best short story or children's storybook written by a current AACC student. Her book Angus Lost was featured prominently in the film Ask the Dust (2006), starring Colin Farrell and Salma Hayek, in which Farrell's character teaches Hayek's character, a Mexican, to read English using Flack's book.įlack's grandson, Tim Barnum, and his wife, Darlene Enix-Barnum, currently sponsor an annual creative writing award at Anne Arundel Community College. Her first marriage was to artist Karl Larsson she later married poet William Rose Benét. She was best known for The Story about Ping ( 1933), illustrated by Kurt Wiese, popularized by Captain Kangaroo, and for her stories of an insatiably curious Scottish terrier named Angus, who was actually her dog. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, Juvenile Fiction - 32 pages. I finally got around to it last month, so here it.

She was born in Greenport, Long Island, New York in 1897. Bear,by Marjorie Flack, and though I did get the book for my classroom, I never did make it into a felt board. Marjorie Flack (OctoAugust 29, 1958) was an American artist and writer of children's picture books. JSTOR ( September 2015) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This article needs additional citations for verification.

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