Margaret Wise Brown: Awakened By The MoonHarperCollins, 16 okt 2018 - 366 pagina's "Leonard S. Marcus... has masterfully written about a fascinating woman who in her short life changed literature for the very young. I was throroughly enchanted."--Eric Carle Nearly fifty years after her sudden death at the age of forty-two, Margaret Wise Brown remains a legend and an enigma. Author of Goodnight Moon, The Runaway Bunny, and dozens of other children's classics, Brown all but invented the picture book as we know it today. Combining poetic instinct with a profound empathy for small children, she understood a child's need for security, love, and a sense of being at home in the world. Yet, these were comforts that had eluded her. Her sparkling presence and her unparalleled success as a legendary children's book author masked an insecurity that left her restless and vulnerable. In this authoritative and moving biography, Leonard S. Marcus, who had access to never-before-published letters and family papers, portrays Brown's complex character and her tragic, seesaw life. Colorful, thoughtful, and insightful, Margaret Wise Brown is both a portrayal of a woman whose stories still speak to millions and a portrait of New York in the 1930s and 1940s, when the literary world blossomed and made history. |
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Awakened By The Moon Leonard S. Marcus. Margaret Wise Brown AWAKENED BY THE MOON Leonard S. Marcus A Biography of the Author of Goodnight Moon EARLY BIRD BOOKS FRESH DEALS , DELIVERED DAILY Love this. Front Cover.
... brown, author of Goodnight Moon and other classics of the American nursery, “but spend all our lives trying to write naturally.” 1 A contemporary of Ludwig Bemelmans, Robert McCloskey, Virginia Lee Burton, and Dr. Seuss, Margaret Wise Brown ...
... Brown's books as a child growing up in the early fifties , but if I did I don't remember . This would not have surprised her at all . Of her own childhood memories of books , Margaret once remarked that it had not then occurred to her ...
... Brown had settled as a newly married couple from Kirkwood, Missouri, and where five years later, on May 23, 1910, their second child, Margaret, was born. Once a bucolic East River village within easy reach of Manhattan, Greenpoint by ...
... Brown slapped him hard across the face in a show of his utter contempt for bigotry. 6 In later life, Margaret's father turned petulant at the merest approving reference to any progressive political cause. While Maude Brown deferred ...
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Bank Street and Beyond | |
Everywhere and Somewhere | |
Other Houses Other Worlds | |
In the Great Green Room | |
Graver Cadences | |
The Fidget Wheels of Time | |
Acknowledgments | |
Index | |
Also by Leonard S Marcus | |