Margaret Wise Brown collection, 1929-1954 (bulk 1937-1952).

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Margaret Wise Brown collection, 1929-1954 (bulk 1937-1952).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/225081337

Literary mss., typescripts, correspondence, legal papers, periodical publications, personal papers, diaries, illustrations, and photographs relating to Margaret Wise Brown, her writings, and personal life. Series I includes published stories, poems, and songs, both handwritten and typed, often with Brown's notes, also some book dummies for some of her works; Series II contains unpublished poems and songs, essays and stories, ideas for records, plays, radio and television programs, musical scores with words by Brown and music by Elizabeth Randolph or Dorothy Cadzow, and composition books with ideas for stories, notes, and thoughts, grouped by format and arranged alphabetically within format; Series III. Correspondence with letters to and from Brown; IV: Muscellaneous papers containing Brown's college papers and creative stories, notes from writing workshops in which she participated including notes on how children related to her writing, and book reviews and articles on her work clipped from newspapers; Series V: Illustrations, generally in storyboard form, for a few of Margaret Wise Brown's published works, including the complete storyboard for The Little Brass Band and assorted illustrations for several other books including The Little Fir Tree, also including work by Barbara Cooney and Clement Hurd; VI: materials about Brown including articles, theses, and mss., grouped by format; and VII: Photographs containing black and white photos of Brown, from her childhood until shortly before her death as well as images of her homes in New York City and Maine.

20 linear ft.

Westerly Public Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7053005

Westerly Public Library

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Brown, Margaret Wise, 1910-1952

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Author of children's books including well known classics Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny; resident of New York, N.Y., and Vinalhaven, Me. From the description of Margaret Wise Brown collection, 1929-1954 (bulk 1937-1952). (Westerly Public Library). WorldCat record id: 225081337 American author of children's books; posthumously awarded 1984 Kerlan Award along with her illustrators and editors. From the description of Papers, 1942-1960. (University of Minnesot...

Cooney, Barbara, 1917-2000

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American illustrator and author of children's books. From the description of Little brother and little sister : production material. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 62424741 From the description of The crows of Pearblossom : production material. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 62686156 From the description of Ox-cart man : production material. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 62686165...

Hurd, Clement, 1908-1988

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American illustrator and author of children's books; in 1984 Clement Hurd represented Margaret Wise Brown and her illustrators and editors as the recipients of the 1984 Kerlan Award. From the description of Papers, 1938-1984 (bulk 1938-1980). (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 62403743 American illustrator and author of children's books. From the description of Johnny Lion's rubber boots : production material. (University of Minnesota, Mi...

Randolph, Elizabeth

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Cadzow, Dorothy

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