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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... Returning home , the girl enjoys a good laugh in private . “ How could they believe it ? " she asks herself in amazement , laughing 25 selfhood - growing up - comes a certain power to. some more . But this discovery - the gullibility of ...
... returned to the compelling ( and at the time largely unexplored ) theme of the power struggles implicit in growing up : young children's determination to make the world conform to their will and to acquire a sense of self - mastery . By ...
... to Lausanne , where they spent the next two years at an exclusive girls ' school , the Château Brillantmont . Robert and Maude boarded a ship for the long journey to India . The following summer, Maude returned to Europe to travel with.
Awakened By The Moon Leonard S. Marcus. The following summer, Maude returned to Europe to travel with the children ... returning to Paris for some time by herself. Because most of the Château Brillantmont's students were English and its ...
... returning to Hollins in the fall, she made a pilgrimage to historic Liberty Hall, the Brown family home in Frankfort, Kentucky, where, in her finest spidery cursive hand, she copied out pages of notes tracing her ancestry back to 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 | |