In the Great Green Room: The Brilliant and Bold Life of Margaret Wise Brown

"A Genuine, Likable Quirk" according to Kindle Fever. If you are an adult avid reader, it may be because someone read to you when you were very young. Do you remember your favorite author? Probably not. However, the book you loved may have been "Goodnight Moon", authored by Margaret Wise Brown the subject of this wonderful biography by Amy Gary. Margaret never lost the ability to see the world through a child's eyes. That's what made her book. It's a fantastic look at Margaret Wise Brown's life Alex We all remember the effect that Margaret's books had on our childhoods. Now, as an adult, I feel the same way about this book. It's a fantastic look at Margaret Wise Brown's life. The author really takes you inside her head and makes you feel as if you are right there as she is going through her life. The descriptions are vivid and it keeps you wanting to read more. The book has the inform. Salted Radish said Interesting Biography. Margaret Wise Brown was a fascinating and complicated woman. Interesting biography of the author of Good Night Moon.

. She has been covered in Vanity Fair, in Entertainment Weekly, and on NPR, among other media outlets. In 1990, AMY GARY discovered hundreds of unpublished works by Margaret Wise Brown in Margaret's sister's attic. She was formerly the director of publishing at Lucasfilm and headed the publishing department at Pixar studios. Since then, Gary has catalogued, edited, and researched all of Brown's writings

--Seira Wilson, The Book Review. And led a remarkable life that was totally unlike the quiet, simple pages of her most famous work. Now I see a colorful, vibrant woman who had complicated love affairs, a unique ability to see the world through a child’s eyes, and who was constantly recreating life on her own terms. An Best Book of January 2017:Goodnight Moon is an icon of childhood, a book still given for baby showers and first birthdays even though it’s over half a century old. A successful career in writing did not come easy to her, and Brown found inspiration in Gertrude Stein that completely changed how she approached her craft. Brown was passionate about children’s book publishing, and she was a visio

After the dissolution of their relationship and Michael's death, Margaret became engaged to a younger man, who also happened to be the son of a Rockefeller and a Carnegie. But before they could marry Margaret died unexpectedly at the age of forty-two, leaving behind a cache of unpublished work and a timeless collection of books that would go on to become classics in children's literature.Author Amy Gary captures the eccentric and exceptional life of Margaret Wise Brown, and drawing on newly discovered personal letters and diaries, reveals an intimate portrait of a creative genius whose unrivaled talent breathed new life into the literary world.. Her whimsy and imagination fueled a steady stream of stories, book ideas, songs, and poems and she was renowned for her prolific writing and business savvy, as well as her stunning beauty and endless thirst for adventure.Margaret started her writing career by helping to shape the curriculum for the Bank Street School for Children, making it her mission to create stories that would rise above traditional fairy tales and allowed girls to see themselves as equal to boys. Margaret's books have sold millions of copies all over the world, but few people know that she was at the center of a children's book publishing revolution. One was a gender-bending poet and the ex-wife of John Barrymore. At the same time, she also experimented endlessly with her own writing. Margaret would spend days rese