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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Awakened By The Moon Leonard S. Marcus. Margaret Wise Brown AWAKENED BY THE MOON Leonard S. Marcus A Biography of the Author of Goodnight Moon EARLY BIRD BOOKS FRESH DEALS , DELIVERED DAILY Love this. Front Cover.
... early fifties , but if I did I don't remember . This would not have surprised her at all . Of her own childhood memories of books , Margaret once remarked that it had not then occurred to her that books were written by people ; what ...
... early nineteenth century, when the American republic was itself still in its formative years. As I was also reading and writing a good deal of poetry, my interest in children's literature naturally expanded to include the modern picture ...
... early death, sad as it was, simply happened. This point bears emphasis because Margaret's own approach to children's literature—and to living—was so bravely unsentimental. Her books have an underlying emotional tautness and honesty ...
... earliest childhood memories . Among them were images of a " city street with high iron gates , a red brick church at the end of the street and the sound of boats on the river " ; a recollection of the " painful shy animal dignity with ...
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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 | |