1st Edition
Margaret Wise Brown’s Experimental Art The Modernist Picture Book
By Julia Pond
Copyright 2025
162 Pages
16 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
162 Pages
16 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
162 Pages
16 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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In this study, the engaging art created by children’s author Margaret Wise Brown receives the critical attention it deserves as a lasting contribution to American children’s literature. Through analysis of her dozens of titles published during the height of western Modernism, this scholarly text shares Brown’s importance and impact from the perspective of Brown’s work, rather than biographically.... Read more
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Literary Artist
Chapter 2: The Visual Artist
Chapter 3: The Philosophic Artist
Chapter 4: The Musical Artist
Epilogue
Biography
Julia Pond is Professor of English and Director of the Honors Academy at Shorter University in Rome, GA. She teaches adolescent, children’s, and American literatures. She has published articles on topics such as the Harry Potter series, adolescent development in To Kill A Mockingbird, and Southern identity in Children’s Literature, Children’s Literature in Education, The Looking Glass, and Southern Studies.
