The Common Room (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
Thomas Nelson publishes a forgotten manuscript, and Margaret Wise Brown's public gets a new picture book by this gentle and delightful author 56 years after her death. More on their website , or purchase from Amazon . I received it in the mail today from Thomas Nelson, and read it aloud to my 18 and 10 year old- and they were both charmed. It's a sweet book, and we love the bright, vibrant,...
Bill Peschel (Free subscription) | 11/13/2008
T oday, children's book author Margaret Wise Brown unwittingly launched herself into eternity through a high kick. She had been recuperating from an operation to remove an ovarian cyst in a hospital in Nice, France. The operation was a success, but when demonstrating to her doctor the extent of her recovery, she had loosened a blood clot which caused an embolism in her heart, killing...
The UmBlog (Free subscription) | 11/21/2008
Good Night Moon by Margaret Wise Brown is one of my favorite books to read to small children, especially at bedtime. My youngest just turned nine so those days are long gone in my household. Sigh. I enjoyed so much the rhythm, cadence, and meter of that book. It just rolled off the tongue. I recently received a “lost” book of Ms. Brown’s for review, titled The Moon Shines Down . The introduction...
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
... but what the hell: Margaret Wise Brown Kicks Off (1952) .
Major Spoilers (Free subscription) | 11/05/2008
My son loves reading Goodnight Moon, my wife or I will read it to him, and as soon as it is done, he wants to read it again. It’s a good story, and a classic known by almost everyone who has a child. Berkeley Breathed paid homage to Margaret Wise Brown’s book on the Humane [...]
The Daily Cartoonist (Free subscription) | 11/02/2008
Berkeley Breathed’s final Opus appeared today. The comic that appeared in newspapers directed readers to the Humane Society’s web site to see the final panel which depicted Opus in children’s storybook, “Goodnight Moon” by Margaret Wise Brown. Berkeley’s own web site appeared to be struggling under the traffic load. Berkeley reports on his website that [...]
LA Times (Free subscription) | 11/05/2008
Sunday’s comic ran in newspapers and showed Steve Dallas smiling wistfully as he looked down into the pages of a book that couldn’t be seen by the readers. Online, the last strip revealed it to be “Goodnight Moon,” the beloved bedtime story written by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Clement Hurd; in Breathed’s panel the book’s nurturing rabbit sits in her rocker with Opus curled...
PSFK Trend: PSFK (Free subscription) | 10/17/2008
... children’s book in particular that has always stuck with me (don’t laugh): “The Color Kittens” by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Alice and Martin Provensen. This was one of those little Golden Books. I cannot tell you in terms too strong how profound an influence the words and images of this book had on my artistic development. For me color is almost the most important element...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
National Portrait Gallery Presents Women of Our Time: Twentieth Century PhotographsMargaret Wise Brown by Philippe Halsman, Gelatin silver print on paper, 1946, Image: 19.3 x 24.3cm (7 5/8 x 9 9/16"), Sheet: 20.3 x 25.2cm (8 x 9 15/16"), Mat: 35.6 x 45.7cm (14 x 18"). National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Steve Bello in memory of Jane Halsman Bello. © Halsman Estate.WASHINGTON,...
