July 13, 1918

The author of The Little Carousel (1946), Marcia Brown (July 13, 1918 to April 28, 2015) was a much lauded children's artist and writer.






According to her New York Times obituary:


One of the country’s most lauded picture-book artists, Ms. Brown illustrated dozens of titles. For some, she also wrote the text; for many others, she retold well-loved folk and fairy tales, sometimes translating them from the original French....

Marcia Joan Brown was born in Rochester on July 13, 1918, and decided to illustrate picture books when she was still a girl.
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She earned a bachelor’s degree in English and drama from the New York State College for Teachers, a forerunner of the State University of New York at Albany, in 1940. After teaching high school English for several years in Cornwall, N.Y., she moved to New York City, where she worked in the central children’s room of the New York Public Library. Her first picture book, “The Little Carousel,” for which she created text and pictures, was published in 1946.
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Another of her books:



This was published in 1961 and won a Caldecott Award. She died at her home in Laguna Hills, California, April 28, 2015.