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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... Hearsey 8. Lucy Sprague Mitchell 9. Children at the City & Country School, New York, 1937 10. Revised typescript page for The Noisy Book 11. Illustration from The Noisy Book 12. Leonard Weisgard 13. Charles Green Shaw 14. Esphyr ...
... Hearsey , in the graduation yearbook , " to find in [ the quadrangle's ] colonnades and columns , in the very brick and mortar of our physical Hollins , a symbol of our kinship with the Greeks ? " 36 Stately Main building , on the ...
... Hearsey's Chaucer class produced an essay thought good enough for the campus literary magazine , Cargoes — her first publication . In Chaucer ( " my old teacher , " she later called him ) Margaret had discovered a benign yet knowing ...
... Hearsey, that Martha did indeed seem very happy, “And I am glad for her.” And yet, she added, considering the shock of separation that comes with the end of one's college years, a separation measured not just in the loss of daily ...
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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 | |