The Picture Book Made New: Margaret Wise Brown and Her Illustrators

by Leonard S. Marcus, Esphyr S Clement Hurd, Leonard Weisgard (Illustrator)

"The Picture Book Made New: Margaret Wise Brown and Her
Illustrators"; March 29, 2005-July 10, 2005.
"The Picture Book Made New", by Leonard S. Marcus.
Catalog Design by Rita Marshall,
25 Illustrations,
Paper, 32 pp, 8 ¾" x 8 ½",
1,000 Copies, First Edition.

From "Acknowledgments," by H. Nichols B. Clark:
"Margaret Wise Brown launched her writing career at a time when a rejection of the fanciful and romantic in children's literature was reinforced by a belief that the genre should reflect a new reality embodied in the ascendant industrial and urban society of America. Consequently, a significant aspect of Brown's literary output was grounded in the 'here and now,' and she gravitated to artists who shared similar modernist tendencies. To be sure, many of her stories were rooted in the imaginary, and a good fit between narrative and image was always paramount."

32 pages, Paperback

First published March 29, 2005

About the author

Leonard S. Marcus is one of the world's leading writers about children's books and their illustrations. His many books include The Wand in the Word: Conversations with Writers of Fantasy; Funny Business: Conversations with Writers of Comedy; Dear Genius; and others. His essays, interviews, and reviews appear in the New York Times Book Review, among other publications. Leonard S. Marcus lives in Brooklyn.