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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... York Here and Now Chapter Three: Bank Street and Beyond Chapter Four: Everywhere and Somewhere Chapter Five: Other Houses, Other Worlds Chapter Six: In the Great Green Room Chapter Seven: “Graver Cadences” Chapter Eight: “The Fidget ...
... York. Clinging doggedly to the bit of security thus put in his way, Robert Brown remained with the firm until his retirement. Three of the Brown aunts must have cut beguiling figures in young Margaret's imagination, even if she saw them ...
... York and Maude left the girls in their Lausanne school before returning to Paris for some time by herself. Because most of the Château Brillantmont's students were English and its classes were conducted entirely in French, two years of ...
... York, Maude began attending meetings of the Theosophical Society and visited the Sables in Rockport for a part of each of the following two summers, taking Margaret and Roberta along with her. Robert Brown did not accompany them ...
... York. The following Thursday, the New York stock market dissolved in panic; the Great Depression had begun. Visiting Hollins that fall, Reinhold Neibuhr lectured on Christian love, exhorting students to remember that although they lived ...
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5 | |
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 | |