Today is Margaret Wise Brown’s birthday. She was a favorite author of my children when they were little I remember reading goodnight moon every night before bed with them. One of our favs was The Little Fur Family, a teeny book covered in fake fur. This was always perfect to tuck in my purse for the doctor or a visit to the store.
“Brown never had children herself, but she worked with young children as a teacher in a progressive education program at the Bank Street Experimental School. She was also a New York socialite — tall and strong, with blond hair and bright green eyes. She dated the prince of Spain and loved to host parties in her Upper East Side apartment. She spent her first royalty check buying an entire cart’s worth of flowers, and often took the proceeds from a book and purchased a ticket to France or a new car.
She died suddenly at the age of 42, energetic and adventurous up to the end. She was on a book tour in Europe when she was stricken with appendicitis and had an emergency appendectomy. She seemed to be recovering well, and she decided to show her doctor how good she felt — so she kicked up her leg in the can-can. It caused an embolism, and she died immediately”. ~http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/
Carpe Diem!
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