Hello Margaret, Goodnight Moon
The story of Margaret Wise Brown…
Classics
Classics : Tales from Moominvalley ( 1962) by Tove Jansson
The Moomins, and their gift of tolerance
Classics : Ernest and Celestine
Life on the emotional edge, with the bear father and the mouse child
Classics : The Hunger Games (2008)
When life is a war game, you need friends to survive
Classics : Tom’s Midnight Garden (1958)
Life (and love) is a dream shared, in Philippa Pearce’s classic novel
Classics : Madeline (1939)
Ludwig Bemelmans had a few childhood scars of his own
Classics : Lady and the Tramp (1955) and Benji (1974)
How Disney (and others) teach children that living in a nice suburban home beats living free in the city
Classics : The Graveyard Book (2009)
Neil Gaiman’s brand of horror lite is aimed at parents, as much as kids
Classics : A Wrinkle in Time (1962)
Madeleine L’Engle’s nutty politico-religious parable for children still has its admirers
Classics: Diana Wynne Jones R.I.P.
Celebrating the author of Archer’s Goon, Howl’s Moving Castle etc.
Classics : The Indian in the Cupboard (1981)
Indians are people, too
Classics : The Cricket In Times Square (1960)
Authors who write for children are people, too.
Classics : The Incredible Journey (1961)
About the bond between animals and humans….
Classics : The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle (1990)
Murder, mutiny, class rebellion and a terrific teenage heroine
Classics : The Owl Service (1967)
The owls are not what they seem, but the English stay true to type
Classics : The Dark Is Rising (1973)
Don’t ever break bread with the stranger on the black horse….
Classics : Marianne Dreams (1958)
The waking is the hardest part
Classics: Toy Story 3 (2010) & Peabody (1983)
Did you betray your toys?
Classics : Daffy Duck (1937)
The duck that turned greed, envy and shameless self-promotion into an art form
Classics : Mrs Frisby and The Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O’Brien ( 1971)
Can genetically modified animals ever rejoin the natural world?
Classics : Dumbo (1941)
… until you seen an elephant fly
Classics: Harriet the Spy (1964) by Louise Fitzhugh
Looking out for number one
Classics: Homecoming (1981) by Cynthia Voigt
Home is not a place
Classics: The Borrowers (1952) by Mary Norton
Small people with big problems
Classics : Go Dog.Go ! ( 1961) by P.D. Eastman
The Red Scare of the 1950s helped create this hymn to perpetual motion.
Classics : Tales from Moominvalley ( 1962) by Tove Jansson
The Moomins, and their gift of tolerance
Classics : The Pirate Twins (1929) by William Nicholson
Race stereotypes in children’s books
Badger’s Parting Gifts (1984) by Susan Varley
Death in children’s stories
Classics : Goodnight Moon (1947)
Margaret Wise Brown: The tragic revolutionary who wrote the children’s classic
Classics: The Rabbits Wedding by Garth Williams
Children’s book illustrator Garth Williams and The Rabbits’ Wedding