She tried to write the way children wanted to hear a story, which often isn't the same way an adult would tell a story.
She said she dreamed stories and then had to write them down in the morning before she forgot them.
There are many scraps of paper where she quickly wrote down a story idea or a poem. She thought this made children think harder when they are reading. Sometimes she would put a hard word into the story or poem. She liked to write books that had a rhythm to them. Most of her books have animals as characters in the story. Even though she died nearly 70 years ago, her books still sell very well. Hurd estuvo casado con la escritora Edith Thacher Hurd, con quien también creó muchos libros que se convirtieron en favoritos de los niños.Margaret Wise Brown wrote hundreds of books and stories during her life, but she is best known for Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny. Allí fue donde desarrolló su estilo característico, compuesto de colores de fuerte contraste. Estudió pintura en París en los años 1930 con Fernand Léger, entre otros. A native of New York City, he lived most of his life in Vermont and California.Ĭlement Hurd (1908–1988) se graduó de Yale University. He illustrated more than one hundred books, many of them with his wife, Edith Thacher Hurd, including the Johnny Lion books, The Day the Sun Danced, and The Merry Chase. After his return to the United States in 1935, he began to work in children's books. He studied painting in Paris with Fernand Léger and others in the early 1930s.
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