Margaret Wise Brown: Awakened by the MoonBeacon Press, 1992 - 337 pagina's Margaret Wise Brown, the author of Goodnight Moon and dozens of other children's classics, all but invented the picture book as we know it today. Combining poetic instinct with a profound empathy for small children, she knew of a child's need for security, love, and a sense of being at home in the worldand she brought that unique tenderness to the page. Yet these were comforts that eluded her. Brown's youthful presence and professional successas an editor, bestselling author, and self-styled impresariomasked an insecurity that left her restless and vulnerable. In this moving biography, Marcus portrays Brown's complex character and her tragic, seesaw life. Her literary achievement and groundbreaking discoveries about small children's emotional needs were offset by tormented romances including a passionate relationship with Michael Strange, the celebrity socialite once married to John Barrymore. |
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... Marga- ret and Jessica sharing an upstairs room under the eaves . More to their amusement than discomfort , their room was also inhabited by bats . The use of a fifteen - foot sailboat came with the house , which belonged to the poet ...
... Marga- ret and Jessica sharing an upstairs room under the eaves . More to their amusement than discomfort , their room was also inhabited by bats . The use of a fifteen - foot sailboat came with the house , which belonged to the poet ...
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... Marga- ret was determined to make her stand . The next day she received an urgent letter from John Mc- Cullough setting forth the firm's formal bill of grievances in the language of an old friend betrayed . She had withdrawn the book ...
... Marga- ret was determined to make her stand . The next day she received an urgent letter from John Mc- Cullough setting forth the firm's formal bill of grievances in the language of an old friend betrayed . She had withdrawn the book ...
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... Marga- ret , vulnerable as she was , does not seem to have believed that they could be true . She was , however , left feeling terribly hurt and confused , and in the first weeks of the new year of 1949 she cast about listlessly for ...
... Marga- ret , vulnerable as she was , does not seem to have believed that they could be true . She was , however , left feeling terribly hurt and confused , and in the first weeks of the new year of 1949 she cast about listlessly for ...
Inhoudsopgave
Introduction I | 1 |
CHAPTER TWO New York Here and Now | 33 |
CHAPTER THREE Bank Street and Beyond | 67 |
Copyright | |
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