Marcia Brown

• Dec-2011
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Shadow lives in the forest... It goes forth at night to prowl around the fires. It even likes to mingle with the dancers... Shadow... It waves with the grasses, curls up at the foot of trees... But in the African experience Shadow is much...

• Aug-1984
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Marcia Brown’s powerful retelling of the story of Paka’a and his son Ku-a-Paka’a conveys the beauty and pomp of ancient Hawaii and recreates a life and culture of days now past. IIN this legend a brave young boy endeavors to r...

• May-1982
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Marcia Brown retells an Indian fable from the Hitopadesa in this Caldecott Medal–winning tale of a mouse who becomes a tiger.When a small mouse’s life is threatened by large jungle predators, a kindly hermit uses magic to change him into ...

• 1961
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Marcia Brown retells an Indian fable from the Hitopadesa in this Caldecott Medalâ€"winning tale of a mouse who becomes a tiger.When a small mouse’s life is threatened by large jungle predators, a kindly hermit uses magic to change him into a cat, a...

• 1954
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A magical adaptation Charles Perrault’s French classic that has been translated and illustrated by Marcia Brown, earning her the Caldecott Medal as well as the love of children everywhere. Even in rags, Cinderella is a hundred times more beautiful ...

• 1950
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Dick Whittington and His Cat is Marcia Brown's tale of Dick Whittington, a character in a British folklore, very loosely based on Richard Whittington.The well-loved tale of the London waif whose cat's prowess as a ratter results in Dick's becoming a ...

• Feb-1947
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Three soldiers came marching down the road towards a French village. The peasants, seeing them coming, suddenly became very busy, for soldiers are often hungry. So all the food was hidden under mattresses or in barns. There followed a battle of wits,...