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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... took up temporary lodgings in a nearby rented house not far from the beach where the children would now be able to play. Beechurst was a prosperous village inhabited by businessmen, professionals, and show people. A short commute from ...
... took piano lessons for a time but without much success. All three children were enrolled at a local dancing academy. Occasionally, their father took the initiative in providing for them; each year before Christmas he drove them down to ...
... took the popular children's monthly St. Nicholas. Books of fantasy were known to the children early on. Margaret recalled having read The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Black Beauty, The Song of Roland, and Andrew Lang's Rainbow fairy tale ...
... took root at a time when her relationship with her husband was beginning to unravel. The two-story stucco house at 8 Ridge Drive which Robert Brown purchased in well-to-do Great Neck, New York, was ready for the family by the fall of ...
... took a generally farsighted view of the social questions of the day - not least of all of the role that educated women might play in the modern world . Anticipating the arrival of a group of visitors from all - black Howard University ...
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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 | |