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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... observed Margaret Wise brown, author of Goodnight Moon and other classics of the American nursery, “but spend all our lives trying to write naturally.” 1 A contemporary of Ludwig Bemelmans, Robert McCloskey, Virginia Lee Burton, and Dr ...
... observed that memory , the ultimate source of her creative work , is a " wild and private place , " a place to which " we return truly only by accident”—the writer's inspiration—“as in a dream or a Chapter One: “A Wild and Private Place”
... observed the threesome as they inspected the shelves. By this rather remote but effective means, he determined what their presents should be. Neither girl ever wanted a doll; they preferred action toys like Gratz's train set and the toy ...
... observed and kept as pets , to wildflowers , trees , sky , and water . As a writer she would describe the natural world with an intensity that , in Proust's words , “ makes us not merely regard a thing as a spectacle , but believe in it ...
... observed carrying a rabbit. A certain mystique attached itself to the beautiful, fair- haired adventuress from the North whose preferred New York meeting place was said to be the last pew of St. Patrick's Cathedral and who once, on ...
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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 | |