Margaret Wise Brown
Posted on 01/07/2017 6:11:05 PM PST by heterosupremacist
“In the great green room/there was a telephone/and a red balloon/and a picture of a cow jumping over the moon . . .”cow jumping over the moon . . .”
For childhood readers of the classic “Goodnight Moon,” there is no more nostalgic image. The simple, rhythmic language and the bold drawings captured the hearts and minds of the public when “Goodnight Moon” was published in 1947. It has sold over 14 million copies and is one of the most beloved children’s books of all time.
But it’s likely few could even name the book’s author, let alone know her wild backstory.
She was a hyper-prolific writer who changed the face of modern picture books; a children’s book author who didn’t particularly like children; an avid rabbit hunter who penned the classic story “The Runaway Bunny”; a great beauty who never married but flitted from relationship to relationship with men and at least one woman.
Margaret Wise Brown is the deserving subject of a new biography “In the Great Green Room” by Amy Gary, a Brown-obsessive, who unearthed a treasure trove of her unpublished works, diaries and letters and has devoted her career to continuing Brown’s.
Born in Brooklyn in 1910 and raised on Long Island, Brown came from wealthy but distracted parents who bickered and largely ignored their three children. Brown spent her youth in boarding schools, holding on to a vague aspiration to become America’s next great novelist.
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Margaret Wise Brown
What is this author’s agenda???
I could not care less. The prose of Goodnight Moon are like a lullaby. Reading it to my kids was always a pleasure.
I think I’ve heard this before. But I guess I wiped it out of my mind, since I didn’t want to detract from “Goodnight Moon.”
One of the wise ones to keep their proclivities out of their prose.
I never heard of Goodnight Moon until I had my own kids. But my absolutely favorite story when very young was one of hers - Two Little Miners
https://www.amazon.com/Two-Little-Miners-Golden-Book/dp/B0007E5RHU
It has wonderfully un-PC language and their predicament is resolved using dynamite. It was also the first book illustrated by Richard Scary.
It’s possible to not particularly like kids and yet delight in making them happy. I find kids rather irritating, always have, even when I was one myself, but I have a business that sells certain things that many kids find both educational and fun, and it does kind of give me a warm glow to know that they will have been delighted to have unwrapped them as presents and have always gone out of my way to try and do better deals for parents with kids. Maybe she had a similar attitude, she liked kids in her own way, just not particularly them company, and didn’t really know how to interact with them.
Was the book good? Yes. Did my kids love it? Yes! Was the author a bisexual? I don’t know and I don’t care, contrary to those who would want to discredit her.
I honestly don’t know who would start this stuff but I DO know that conservatives wouldn’t give a crap about the author’s sexual preferences. They would say what good did you do. And this lady did GREAT GOOD with her story! God love her!
I was born in 1947 and had never heard of this book or author. My oldest son was born in 1966, and at some point he had the book, which we used to read to him. I can’t remember if the book was a gift from my mother, or if I had actually bought it for him. I just remember the title. When I was growing up, my favorite books were “The Five Chinese Brothers” by Claire Huchet Bishop, and published in 1938. Another book we loved as kids was “Mr. Snitzel’s Cookies” by Jane Flory. I believe it was published in 1950. When I was a bit older I enjoyed reading the Doctor Doolittle series written by Hugh Lofting, and published between 1920 and 1952, and also the Freddy the Pig series by Walter R. Brooks, published between 1927 and 1958.
That is really the essence of Conservatism. That is what Liberals don’t understand —
Leave me alone. I won’t try to rule your life, or invade your bedroom, or drive you out of business. I don’t see any reason to rule over you. And all I ask is that you extend to me the same courtesy ...
Nope. Liberals can’t see that. Liberals just think we are Nazis and the only way to stop us to make rules about what we can say, what we can’t say, and what we have to say. Sigh.
The LGBT agenda is claiming various popular historical figures as LGBTers. Did you know Abe Lincoln was a closeted gay man? Well he is now. /sarc
Thus, claiming this popular children’s author was bisexual (based, apparently, on one rumored experimental fling with a woman) and she supposedly didn’t really like children anyway, assures us that she wasn’t pursuing them for her own needs.
It’s all meant to convince rest of us to get over our silly hangups and hand over our kids.
One author I love is Willa Cather, early 20th century writer who died 1947. She wrote about pioneer women who helped settle the American west.
In reading her stories, which focused on women but had fine male characters as well, I had no inkling of the author’s sex life. She just told mighty fine stories.
Later I learned Cather was a lesbian. Couldn’t care less.
A personal failure and biographical stalker who is far into projection.
“... a bisexual rebel...”
Translation from scumbag into human speech:
A sexually amoral degenerate.
“Goodnight Moon” was published in 1947.
Never heard of it.
This wouldn’t be a story absent the lesbian angle.
I always thought the bunny household was very unwise to have pet cats.
I read the book. It’s okay, average, nothing special. I fail to see why it is popular.
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