The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon by Ellen Raskin

The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America by Khalil Gibran Muhammad.Blood in the Water by Heather Ann Thompson.As the World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Stay in Denial by Derrick Jensen and Stephanie McMillan.I wonder where they are? Maybe they're in another box that I missed. There are eight other illustrations in the book, including the cover, which are not in the Kerlan Collection, as far as I could see. If you zoom in to look closer, you can see that Raskin meticulously retouched along the edges of almost every letter with white paint. The hand-lettering in these drawings is incredible. Carillon finally gets to change out of the asterisk dress. Banks), her adopted Siamese twins Tony and Tina (no, they are not the same sex), and her new/old friend Augie, in the football helmet.Īt the book's end, I don't think it's giving too much away to say there's a happy ending, and Mrs. Carillon is joined by her tall banker (named Mr. Carillon contemplates her search for him across the United States. Here, the young Caroline Fish is manhandled by Miss Anna Oglethorpe while at school.Īfter marrying Leon Carillon, and then losing him to his mysterious disappearance, Mrs. (Remember those patterned dresses on the We Alcotts book cover?) Carillon), which is cut from a sheet of asterisks printed on photo paper from a phototypesetting machine. These are pen and ink drawings, with one exception: The dress of the main character (Caroline Fish/Mrs. The Kerlan Collection doesn't have a lot of material from Leon, though: Just some of the inside artwork. Reading it not long after it appears in 1971 was a literary highlight of my childhood.

It's thoroughly steeped in the cultural world of the 1960s, too. It's a silly mystery book, full of clues, jokes, and puns. The first book I read by Ellen Raskin was The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon (I Mean Noel), and it's probably still my favorite among all of her works.

The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon by Ellen Raskin