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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... considered the golden age of the American picture book, the years spanning the post- Depression thirties and the postwar baby boom forties and fifties. Bemelmans and the others began as visual artists who became authors, as it were, in ...
... considered converting it into a ballroom, trunk-loads of old theater costumes were stored; it was in these incomparable circumstances that the girls played their dress-up games. Even summers, however, were not times of uninterrupted ...
... bound for the Seven Sisters colleges. Latin and classical literature were emphasized, along with English literature, French, and mathematics. Music and art classes were considered of minor significance , as at most other schools.
Awakened By The Moon Leonard S. Marcus. considered of minor significance , as at most other schools of the time . Most striking about the Dana Hall regime was the importance the school placed on the development of intellectual self ...
... considered junior college , then ( most likely it was her mother's idea ) decided instead to apply to Maude Brown's alma mater , Hollins College.34 By then Gratz was an engineering major at M.I.T. and , much to Robert Brown's ...
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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 | |