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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... learned, worked better than others. She was a poet of places, a master at shaping (decorating is not the word) her home surroundings into havens that mirrored the emotional warmth and whimsy, and the fascination with the primitive, of ...
... learned were by no means the same as the " Red Riding Hood , " " Cinderella , " and " Hansel and Gretel " that other children knew . While gazing intently down at the page before her , Margaret had felt free to stray from the printed ...
... learned to hold the soft, wary creatures in their own small hands, and it was from watching the rabbits that the children first learned about sex. Once, when one of the rabbits died, Margaret, in her startlingly fearless and ...
... learned that he was to make another extended trip in India , Maude decided she should accompany him . An elaborate scheme was devised to allow their daughters to travel with them a part of the way . That summer , Margaret ( just turned ...
... learned to expect the unexpected from her; boarding a train on her way to a date at the University of Virginia, she was observed carrying a rabbit. A certain mystique attached itself to the beautiful, fair- haired adventuress from the ...
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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 | |