![]() ![]() Lenski’s creativityįlourished as she continued making dresses for her dolls. ![]() She first began sewing dresses for her dolls when she was six years oldĪnd even dreamed of becoming a dressmaker when she grew up. Lenski’s family greatly valued education, bothįondest memories were of learning practical skills with her oldest sister,Įsther, from their mother, such as cooking, canning, and sewing. It offered all a child could enjoy and comprehend…it soon became my own, a compound of sights and sounds and smells and buildings and people that it became a part of me” (Lenski, 19-20). The impact Anna had on Lenski can been seen in her first two books, Skipping Village (1927) and A Little Girl of Nineteen Hundred (1928) (Ranta 244). Although Anna was very small and life was fairly ordinary, Lenski fondly remembered her childhood there. In her autobiography, Journey into Childhood: The Autobiography of Lois Lenski, she wrote that “Anna, Ohio, in the early 1900s was a perfect child’s town. In 1899, when Lenki was six years old, her family moved from Springfield to Anna, Ohio, a very small, rural community (“Contemporary Authors”). ![]() Her father was a Lutheran minister and her mother had been a school teacher prior to marrying Richard (Ranta 244). ![]() Lenski, the fourth of five children, was born into an educated and religious family. Lenski was born on Octoto Richard Charles Henry and Marietta (Young) Lenski in Springfield, Ohio. ![]()
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