Margaret Wise Brown (1910–1952)
Forfatter af Goodnight Moon
Om forfatteren
Margaret Wise Brown was born on May 10, 1910 in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York, to Robert Brown, a Vice President at American Manufacturing Company and Maud Brown, a housewife. She attended school in Lausanne, Switzerland for three years, before attending Dana Hall in Wellesley, Massachusetts for vis mere two years. In 1928, she began taking classes at Hollis College in Virginia. In 1935, Brown began working at the Bank Street Cooperative School for student teachers. Two years later, her writing career took off with the publication of "When the Wind Blows." Over the course of fourteen years, Brown wrote over one hundred picture books for children. Some of her best known titles include Goodnight Moon, Big Red Barn and Runaway Bunny. Margaret Wise Brown died on November 13, 1952 of an embolism following an operation in Nice, France. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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(eng) Golden MacDonald, Juniper Sage, Timothy Hay, and Kaintuck Brown are pen names of Margaret Wise Brown.
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Værker af Margaret Wise Brown
Goodnight Moon Classic Library: Contains Goodnight Moon, The Runaway Bunny, and My World (2006) 102 eksemplarer
The Little Golden Book Library 4 Book Cased Set Golden Favorites * Bedtime Stories * Our Wonderful World * Fairy Tales… (1969) 8 eksemplarer
Black and white 3 eksemplarer
the little fireman / I WANT TO FLY 2 eksemplarer
The Big Fur Secret 2 eksemplarer
The comical tragedy or tragical comedy of Punch & Judy 2 eksemplarer
The Hidden House 2 eksemplarer
The Bad Little Duckhunter 2 eksemplarer
The Saggy Baggy Elephant; The Sailor Dog; Scuffy the Tugboat 3 Little Golden Books Classic Collection 1 eksemplar
L'ocell mort 1 eksemplar
Tralalire présente : Monsieur Chien 1 eksemplar
Slaap zacht Kleintje 1 eksemplar
Pieni uninen kani 1 eksemplar
Big Red Barn Activities 1 eksemplar
Hyvä yötä, pikku karhu 1 eksemplar
The Quite Noisy Book 1 eksemplar
Willie's walk to grandmama 1 eksemplar
The poodle and the sheep 1 eksemplar
The Peppermint family 1 eksemplar
The streamlined pig 1 eksemplar
They all saw it 1 eksemplar
The house of a hundred windows 1 eksemplar
The children's year 1 eksemplar
Oi, mikä talo! 1 eksemplar
The Noisy Bird Book 1 eksemplar
Big dog, little dog 1 eksemplar
Pussycat's Christmas 1 eksemplar
Springtime Stories 1 eksemplar
A Little Golden Book Collection Friendly Tales 1 eksemplar
Good Night Moon Good Night Moon 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
La Fontaine fabler (1668) — Illustrator, nogle udgaver; Oversætter, nogle udgaver — 1,787 eksemplarer
The 20th-Century Children's Book Treasury: Picture Books and Stories to Read Aloud (1998) — Forfatter — 1,528 eksemplarer
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- Andre navne
- MacDonald, Golden
Sage, Juniper
Brown, Kaintuck
Hay, Timothy - Fødselsdato
- 1910-05-23
- Dødsdag
- 1952-11-13
- Begravelsessted
- Cremated
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Dødssted
- Nice, France
- Dødsårsag
- an embolism, shortly after surgery for an ovarian cyst
- Bopæl
- New York, New York, USA
- Uddannelse
- Hollins College
- Erhverv
- writer
children's book author
teacher - Relationer
- Strange, Michael (partner)
- Kort biografi
- Margaret Wise Brown wrote hundreds of books and stories before she died at the age of 42 after surgery for a burst appendix. She published under her own name as well as under several pen names including Timothy Hay, Golden MacDonald, Juniper Sage, and Kaintuck Brown. According to a Web site dedicated to her, before Margaret began writing books for children, fairytales and fables dominated the world of illustrated stories. But Margaret, or Brownie, as her friends called her, wrote with the then "new" idea that children would rather read about their own lives instead. Many of her books are considered classics of the genre.
- Oplysning om flertydighed
- Golden MacDonald, Juniper Sage, Timothy Hay, and Kaintuck Brown are pen names of Margaret Wise Brown.
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The sleepy men af Margaret Wise Brown
I agree with the reviews that do not love this book. I don’t love this book. Spoiler- I have never liked Goodnight Moon. I do also agree that this can read like a How To for falling asleep and many children need help with that. I think this is a good one to try along with Going To Sleep On The Farm.
The Little Fir Tree, illustrated by Barbara Cooney.
Standing alone in a field, separated from the sheltering bulk of the trees of the nearby forest, a little fir tree leads a lonely life for his first seven years, before he finds himself uprooted one holiday season, and taken into a local farmhouse to be the Christmas tree of a little boy with a lame leg. After this magical experience, the tree is replanted in the field the next spring, only to be uprooted again in winter, forming a yearly pattern that the tree comes to anticipate. Then one winter no one comes to fetch him, and the tree wonders what has become of his yearly friends. The answer comes in the form of his own Christmas visit, as the little boy—now healed!—leads his friends in a singing procession to the tree's field...
The Little Fir Tree was originally published in 1954, in this edition, with artwork by the celebrated Barbara Cooney. I have long wanted to track it down, but discovered in previous years that only the newer edition, published in 2005 with artwork from Jim LaMarche, was available at my local library. I read and enjoyed that newer edition, but kept looking for this original one as well, given my fondness for Cooney's work. I am glad that I did, as I think her simple but immensely expressive artwork is perfectly suited to the story, ably capturing both its melancholy and joyful elements. I liked the incorporation of the music for a few Christmas carols, with lyrics adapted to the events of the story (I can't recall if this was done in the LaMarche edition as well), and I appreciated the vintage style here, with the limited number of color washes—red and green predominating, of course!—and those distinctive Barbara Cooney figures. Recommended to anyone looking for lovely Christmas stories for the picture book set, as well as to fellow Cooney fans.… (mere)
Standing alone in a field, separated from the sheltering bulk of the trees of the nearby forest, a little fir tree leads a lonely life for his first seven years, before he finds himself uprooted one holiday season, and taken into a local farmhouse to be the Christmas tree of a little boy with a lame leg. After this magical experience, the tree is replanted in the field the next spring, only to be uprooted again in winter, forming a yearly pattern that the tree comes to anticipate. Then one winter no one comes to fetch him, and the tree wonders what has become of his yearly friends. The answer comes in the form of his own Christmas visit, as the little boy—now healed!—leads his friends in a singing procession to the tree's field...
The Little Fir Tree was originally published in 1954, in this edition, with artwork by the celebrated Barbara Cooney. I have long wanted to track it down, but discovered in previous years that only the newer edition, published in 2005 with artwork from Jim LaMarche, was available at my local library. I read and enjoyed that newer edition, but kept looking for this original one as well, given my fondness for Cooney's work. I am glad that I did, as I think her simple but immensely expressive artwork is perfectly suited to the story, ably capturing both its melancholy and joyful elements. I liked the incorporation of the music for a few Christmas carols, with lyrics adapted to the events of the story (I can't recall if this was done in the LaMarche edition as well), and I appreciated the vintage style here, with the limited number of color washes—red and green predominating, of course!—and those distinctive Barbara Cooney figures. Recommended to anyone looking for lovely Christmas stories for the picture book set, as well as to fellow Cooney fans.… (mere)
Twelve songs from picture book legend Margaret Wise Brown, creator of such childhood classics as Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny, are paired with illustrations from twelve different contemporary illustrators in this posthumous (by many years) collection. Contributing illustrators include luminaries like Caldecott medalist Sophie Blackall and two-time Caldecott Honor winner Melissa Sweet, as well as personal favorites like Carin Berger (who is actually the reason I sought this title out). The book includes a CD by Tom Proutt and Emily Gary, who have put the songs in this collection to music...
Margaret Wise Brown has had quite a posthumous publishing career, with so many of her stories and books seeing print long after her death in 1952, thanks to an extensive cache of papers she left with her sister, which were then subsequently discovered by Amy Gary, author of the biography In the Great Green Room: The Brilliant and Bold Life of Margaret Wise Brown, and the editor of the Margaret Wise Brown Estate. Gary provides the introduction to Goodnight Songs, setting out this history, and describing how Brown had turned to song-writing, in her later years. As mentioned, I sought this one out because I am an admirer of Carin Berger's work, and she was a contributing illustrator, but as it happens I was familiar with all twelve illustrators, and have enjoyed their work elsewhere, just as I enjoyed it here. I appreciated the myriad of illustrative styles on display, and I found the songs engaging. That said, I don't think I would have been as engaged, if I didn't read the songs with the CD, reading first, and then again while listening to the music. I've seen a few unfavorable reviews of this one, and they invariably describe these selections as "poems." While the can certainly be taken that way, it's pretty clear they weren't written simply as poems, but as actual songs, and were meant to be accompanied by music. When experienced this way, they are very taking, and Proutt and Gary are to be commended for their musical arrangements. Recommended to picture book readers looking for a good collection of original lullabies and goodnight songs.… (mere)
Margaret Wise Brown has had quite a posthumous publishing career, with so many of her stories and books seeing print long after her death in 1952, thanks to an extensive cache of papers she left with her sister, which were then subsequently discovered by Amy Gary, author of the biography In the Great Green Room: The Brilliant and Bold Life of Margaret Wise Brown, and the editor of the Margaret Wise Brown Estate. Gary provides the introduction to Goodnight Songs, setting out this history, and describing how Brown had turned to song-writing, in her later years. As mentioned, I sought this one out because I am an admirer of Carin Berger's work, and she was a contributing illustrator, but as it happens I was familiar with all twelve illustrators, and have enjoyed their work elsewhere, just as I enjoyed it here. I appreciated the myriad of illustrative styles on display, and I found the songs engaging. That said, I don't think I would have been as engaged, if I didn't read the songs with the CD, reading first, and then again while listening to the music. I've seen a few unfavorable reviews of this one, and they invariably describe these selections as "poems." While the can certainly be taken that way, it's pretty clear they weren't written simply as poems, but as actual songs, and were meant to be accompanied by music. When experienced this way, they are very taking, and Proutt and Gary are to be commended for their musical arrangements. Recommended to picture book readers looking for a good collection of original lullabies and goodnight songs.… (mere)
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