Description
David travels to the moon in the garden where all is enchanting and where he also runs into Phyllis who is not like the other kids in the garden. While he can play in this lovely garden for a time, he finally learns that he has been taken there to divulge his real mission, which is to search for the Wonder-Box and the Know-All Book that is buried in the Iron Castle and take them all to his world. To look for the Iron Castle, he should first search and domesticate the Black Winged Horse. Will he be successful enough for the mission accorded to him? Howard Pyle was an American illustrator and writer, chiefly of stories for the young. He was a local of Wilmington, Delaware, and he spent the later years of his life in Florence, Italy. He became an instructor of illustration at the Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry, which is now called as Drexel University. Then he established his own school of art and illustration known as the Howard Pyle School of Illustration Art. Academic Henry C. Pitz afterwards applied the word Brandywine School for the illustration artists and Wyeth family artists of the Brandywine region, many of whom had learned with Howard. A few of his more remarkable pupils were N. C. Wyeth, Frank Schoonover, Elenore Abbott, Ethel Franklin Betts, Anna Whelan Betts, Harvey Dunn, Clyde O. De Land, Philip R. Goodwin, Thornton Oakley, Violet Oakley, Ellen Bernard Thompson Pyle, Olive Rush, Allen Tupper True, Elizabeth Shippen Green, Arthur E. Becher, William James Aylward, and Jessie Willcox Smith. Howard educated his pupils at his house and studio in Wilmington, which is still existing and is on the list of the National Register of Historic Places. His book The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood continues to be in publication, and his other works often have primitive European scenes, such as a four-volume collection on King Arthur.
Product ID: 9781776726653
Sku: S2-2WTS-W87F
