The Runaway Bunny: A 75th Anniversary Retrospective

About Margaret Wise Brown

Margaret Wise Brown cherished for her unique ability to convey a child's experience and perspective of the world transformed the landscape of children's literature with such beloved classics as Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny. Other perennial favorites by Ms. Brown include Nibble Nibble My World Where Have You Been? Christmas in the Barn The Dead Bird and Sneakers the Seaside Cat. Clement Hurd (1908-1988) is best known for illustrating Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny the classic picture books by Margaret Wise Brown. He studied painting in Paris with Fernand Leger and others in the early 1930s. After his return to the United States in 1935 he began to work in children's books. 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. A native of New York City he lived most of his life in Vermont and California. Clement Hurd (1908-1988) se graduo de Yale University. Estudio pintura en Paris en los anos 1930 con Fernand Leger entre otros. Alli fue donde desarrollo su estilo caracteristico compuesto de colores de fuerte contraste. Hurd estuvo casado con la escritora Edith Thacher Hurd con quien tambien creo muchos libros que se convirtieron en favoritos de los ninos.