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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... Rabbit, Black Beauty, The Song of Roland, and Andrew Lang's Rainbow fairy tale collections. Margaret said later that her favorite story had been “Aladdin and his Wonderful Lamp,” while insisting that on the whole she had not read much ...
... rabbits at a time in mesh cages stacked beside the backyard woodpile. It was the children's responsibility to feed the rabbits and clean their cages (though Margaret was frequently absent when it came time for these disagreeable chores) ...
Awakened By The Moon Leonard S. Marcus. vulnerability of rabbits, captivated her, and later became poignant emblems in her published writings and her personal mythology. A few blocks from home was a woodlot known as Robin's Woods, where ...
... rabbit while it lived and skin the dead rabbit for its fur , extracting from death life's pleasurable essences . She would tell stories to Death , as it were , from The Book of Knowledge . On the one occasion when Margaret tried to run ...
... rabbit. A certain mystique attached itself to the beautiful, fair- haired adventuress from the North whose preferred New York meeting place was said to be the last pew of St. Patrick's Cathedral and who once, on realizing she could not ...
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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 | |