Margaret Wise Brown: Awakened by the MoonBeacon Press, 1992 - 337 pagina's Forty years after her sudden death at the age of 42, Margaret Wise Brown, author of the children's classics Runaway Bunny and Goodnight Moon, remains a legendary figure in the world of literature and an enigma to many who knew her. This vivid biography is a thoughtful portrait of a complex woman whose haunting stories still speak to millions. Photographs. |
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... seemed larger - than - life . A taller than average woman , Mitch- ell had a sparkling but somewhat formal manner that many people found intimidating . " Don't talk while I interrupt , " she good- naturedly chided everyone at the school ...
... seemed larger - than - life . A taller than average woman , Mitch- ell had a sparkling but somewhat formal manner that many people found intimidating . " Don't talk while I interrupt , " she good- naturedly chided everyone at the school ...
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... seemed likely to lie dead in the water from a sales point of view might have a chance there if it had sufficient merit . 20 Buoyed by this slender and , as it turned out , not altogether accurate bit of intelligence , Shaw , on a fine ...
... seemed likely to lie dead in the water from a sales point of view might have a chance there if it had sufficient merit . 20 Buoyed by this slender and , as it turned out , not altogether accurate bit of intelligence , Shaw , on a fine ...
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... seemed , making lists of one kind or another ; this was another in the order - and - self - discipline genre . " Intellec- tually , ” the prescription began , to have focus meant “ to discover and explore ; to do this in some way ...
... seemed , making lists of one kind or another ; this was another in the order - and - self - discipline genre . " Intellec- tually , ” the prescription began , to have focus meant “ to discover and explore ; to do this in some way ...
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Acknowledgments_xi | 1 |
CHAPTER TWO New York Here and Now | 33 |
CHAPTER THREE Bank Street and Beyond | 67 |
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