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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... wrote with a quill pen , that she preferred swan's plumes but at the mo- ment had only a blue heron feather on hand , that she often wrote in bed . He photographed her scribbling on a legal pad by a favorite student lamp given her by ...
... wrote with a quill pen , that she preferred swan's plumes but at the mo- ment had only a blue heron feather on hand , that she often wrote in bed . He photographed her scribbling on a legal pad by a favorite student lamp given her by ...
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... wrote her letter to Michael Strange , to be sent care of the Savoy in London . ( Michael had not left an itiner- ary but was bound to turn up at the Savoy sooner or later . ) Marga- ret urged her to stop on her way back to New York at ...
... wrote her letter to Michael Strange , to be sent care of the Savoy in London . ( Michael had not left an itiner- ary but was bound to turn up at the Savoy sooner or later . ) Marga- ret urged her to stop on her way back to New York at ...
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... wrote for children were meant to be " silly simple " lyrics that " might make any child feel that he could do just as well himself . ” She offered as an example " The Secret Song , " which begins , " Who saw the petals / drop from the ...
... wrote for children were meant to be " silly simple " lyrics that " might make any child feel that he could do just as well himself . ” She offered as an example " The Secret Song , " which begins , " Who saw the petals / drop from the ...
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Introduction I | 1 |
CHAPTER TWO New York Here and Now | 33 |
CHAPTER THREE Bank Street and Beyond | 67 |
Copyright | |
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