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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... children for whom few had even thought to write before ; and no author before or since has managed so well to shape ... child growing up in the early fifties , but if I did I don't remember . This would not have surprised her at all ...
... children's literature is a sentimental repository of innocent thoughts and happy endings, and little more than that—how ironic, then, when a children's author's own story ends so unhappily. In some respects, Margaret consciously cast ...
... child stretches to conform to a strange adult social politeness " ; thoughts about death , dreaming , " mysterious clock time , " and aging ; and a " problem of aesthetics I had - why wasn't an airdale's [ sic ] face beautiful , if it ...
... child, Margaret, was born. Once a bucolic East River village within easy reach of Manhattan, Greenpoint by the turn ... children, all of them born on Milton Street. Benjamin Gratz, Jr., named for Robert's father, was nearly two years old ...
... children . During her married years , only concern for her children's welfare seems to have emboldened her , as when she insisted , over Robert Brown's strenuous objections , that Margaret and Roberta , as well as Gratz , be given the ...
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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 | |