Palmer Brown
Palmer Brown (1920-2012) was born in Chicago and attended Swarthmore and the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author and illustrator of five books for children, including Beyond the Pawpaw Trees and its sequel, The Silver Nutmeg; Cheerful; and Hickory-all forthcoming from The New York Review Children's Collection.
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Beyond the Pawpaw Trees is a tour through a land as strange and wonderful as Oz, filled with people as delightfully batty as any in Alice's looking glass. Category: Picture story booksPublisher: NYRB Children's Collection |
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This is the story of a little city mouse named Cheerful. Category: Picture story booksPublisher: NYRB Children's Collection |
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Hickory is story of a friendship, but it is also a field guide to the common plants and flowers of spring, summer, and autumn, beautifully rendered in Palmer Brown’s most colorful and joyous drawings. Category: Picture story booksPublisher: NYRB Children's Collection |
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The Silver Nutmeg continues the adventures begun in Beyond the Pawpaw Trees, and features loads of sense, a little nonsense, and more delightful verses from Anna Lavinia's beloved Songs from Nowhere. Category: Picture story booksPublisher: NYRB Children's Collection |
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This is the story of a little mouse's search for a very special gift for a very special person. Category: Picture story booksPublisher: NYRB Children's Collection |
