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

“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.”