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Resolved, classical in form, earnest and effortless.
- resolvedopen-ended
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- effortlessdemanding
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Marcia Brown
- First published
- 1954
- Pages
- 32
- Publisher
- Atheneum, Tandem Library, Aladdin
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780812437539
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“Once upon a time there was a gentleman who took for his second wife the proudest and haughtiest woman that was ever seen.”
Marcia Joan Brown (July 13, 1918 – April 28, 2015) was an American writer and illustrator of more than 30 children's books. She has won three annual Caldecott Medals from the American Library Association, and six Caldecott Medal honors as an illustrator, recognizing the year's best U.S. picture book illustration, and the ALA's Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal in 1992 for her career contribution to children's literature. Many of her titles have been published in translation, including Afrikaans, German, Japanese, Spanish and Xhosa-Bantu editions. Brown is known as one of the most honored illustrators in children's literature.
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