Hardcover Book In The Great Green Room Margaret Wise Brown Amy Gary

Condition: Gently used with minimal signs of wear. Offers are always welcome. Please check out my other listings to bundle and save. The extraordinary life of the woman behind the beloved children’s classics Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny comes alive in this biography of Margaret Wise Brown. Few people know that she was at the center of a children’s book publishing revolution. 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 fairy tales and allowed girls to see themselves as equal to boys. Clever, quirky, and incredibly talented, Margaret embraced life with passion, lived extravagantly off of her royalties, went on rabbit hunts, and carried on long and troubled love affairs with both men and women. One was a gender-bending poet and the ex-wife of John Barrymore who went by the stage name of Michael Strange. 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 But before they could marry Margaret died unexpectedly at the age of forty-two, leaving behind a cache of unpublished work and a timeless collection of books that would go on become classics in children’s literature. In the Great Green Room, author Amy Gary captures the eccentric life of Margaret Wise Brown, drawing on newly-discovered personal letters and diaries.