Tag: Margaret Wise Brown
‘It’s a pattern really. So many of the progressive writers and illustrators of children’s books were Jews,” says Leonard Marcus, who does not usually concern himself with the old parlor game of counting famous Jews. Marcus is curator of the New York Public Library’s exhibit on children’s literature, “The ABC of It: Why Children’s Books Matter,” … Read More
There is still no children’s book to my mind that conveys so great a sense of peace, security, and well-being as does Goodnight Moon. Clement Hurd’s illustrations are just as compelling as the words. The translation of the people into bunnies, while hardly the first personification in the history of books, does a great deal … Read More