Margaret Wise Brown: Awakened By the MoonHarper Collins, 22 sep 1999 - 368 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 world and she brought that unique tenderness to the page. Yet these were comforts that eluded her. Brown's youthful presence and professional success as an editor, bestselling author, and self-styled impresario masked 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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... considered the golden age of the American picture book , the years spanning the post- Depression thirties and the postwar baby boom forties and fifties . Bemelmans and the others began as visual artists who became au- thors , as it were ...
... considered the golden age of the American picture book , the years spanning the post- Depression thirties and the postwar baby boom forties and fifties . Bemelmans and the others began as visual artists who became au- thors , as it were ...
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... considered converting it into a ballroom , trunk- loads of old theater costumes were stored ; it was in these incompa- rable circumstances that the girls played their dress - up games . Even summers , however , were not times of ...
... considered converting it into a ballroom , trunk- loads of old theater costumes were stored ; it was in these incompa- rable circumstances that the girls played their dress - up games . Even summers , however , were not times of ...
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... considered of minor sig- nificance , as at most other schools of the time . Most striking about the Dana Hall regime was the importance the school placed on the development of intellectual self - confidence and independence . As Dana ...
... considered of minor sig- nificance , as at most other schools of the time . Most striking about the Dana Hall regime was the importance the school placed on the development of intellectual self - confidence and independence . As Dana ...
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... to take the mathemat- ics and Latin courses required for admission to the more selective northeastern schools . She considered junior college , then ( most likely it was her mother's idea ) decided instead to " A Wild and Private Place " ...
... to take the mathemat- ics and Latin courses required for admission to the more selective northeastern schools . She considered junior college , then ( most likely it was her mother's idea ) decided instead to " A Wild and Private Place " ...
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... considered , “ is like a plot . A plot is like the sound of the word . ' Plot . ' . . . I will never be a writer . " 8 The Columbia workshop proved a disheartening misadven- ture . Years later , in an interview in Life magazine , she ...
... considered , “ is like a plot . A plot is like the sound of the word . ' Plot . ' . . . I will never be a writer . " 8 The Columbia workshop proved a disheartening misadven- ture . Years later , in an interview in Life magazine , she ...
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CHAPTER THREE Bank Street and Beyond | 67 |
CHAPTER SEVEN Graver Cadences | 220 |
CHAPTER EIGHT The Fidget Wheels of Time | 253 |
Notes | 291 |
Bibliography | 317 |
Index | 325 |
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Pagina 308 - This story shall the good man teach his son; And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered ; We few, we happy few, we band of brothers ; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother ; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition...
Pagina 316 - I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel ; For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies ; The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcoties, numbing pain.
Pagina 149 - Once there was a little bunny who wanted to run away. So he said to his mother, "I am running away." "If you run away," said his mother, "I will run after you.
Pagina 188 - How wonderful it is to really become once more the inventor of a mechanical action! And so, when a poet rubs a piece of furniture — even vicariously — when he puts a little fragrant wax on his table with the woolen cloth that lends warmth to everything it touches, he creates a new object; he increases the object's human dignity; he registers this object officially as a member of the human household.366 The type of care Bachelard describes is re-creative and restorative.
Pagina 253 - Though I am old with wandering Through hollow lands and hilly lands, I will find out where she has gone, And kiss her lips and take her hands; And walk among long dappled grass, And pluck till time and times are done, The silver apples of the moon, The golden apples of the sun.
Pagina 250 - Her goal, which she certainly achieved, was "to make a child laugh or feel clear and happy headed ... to lift him for a few moments from his own problems of shoe laces that won't tie and busy parents and mysterious clock time into the world of a bug or a bear or a bee or a boy living in the timeless world of a story. . . ." [On Brown and her career, see Eugene M. Sheel, "Margaret Wise Brown...
Pagina 188 - I took the sack of corn meal and took it to where the canoe was hid, and shoved the vines and branches apart and put it in; then I done the same with the side of bacon; then the...
Pagina 113 - ROSE I AM Rose my eyes are blue I am Rose and who are you I am Rose and when I sing I am Rose like anything...
Pagina 308 - Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space, trans. Maria Jolas (Boston: Beacon Press, 1969), p. xix. The first two chapters about the house — chapter 8, "Intimate Immensity," and chapter 9, "The Dialectics of Inside and Outside" — have been especially valuable for my discussion.
Pagina 187 - In the great green room, there was a telephone, and a red balloon, and a picture of the cow jumping over the moon.