TS Eric Carle vs. Margaret Wise Brown

dude did you know MWB liked the ladies? and she left all her money/royalties to the neighbor kid who grew up all messed up because of it?

Funny, I was just out with the wife buying a bunch of copies of a Very Hungry Caterpillar activity book for her class. Dude has licensed the shit out of his name and work - there was a whole "World of Eric Carle" kiosk.

margaret wise brown for the classics, though we had one of her later books (the color kittens) that wasn't so hot.

I recently saw some a breakfast food tie-in, Very Hungry Caterpillar Cheerios, I think. Apparently there is an Eric Carle museum in Amherst, MA, or somewhere like that.

No teeny, I did not know that. Thanks for the info.

Brown bequeathed the royalties to many of her books including Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny to Albert Clarke, the son of a neighbor who was nine years old when she died. In 2000, reporter Joshua Prager detailed in the Wall Street Journal the troubled life of Mr. Clarke who has squandered the millions of dollars the books have earned him and who believes that Wise Brown was his mother, a claim others dismiss.

The Very Lonely Firefly is also great

I need to change the battery on our copy of that book.

Here's the Joshua Prager story: http://www.joshuaprager.com/wsj/articles/goodnightmoon/

wow

RIP to a legend.

If you have a chance stop-over in Western Massachusetts, his museum is there. Those three or so hours I spent there wandering around and doing art with my kids are forever.

BTW, the Joshua Prager story from above is at https://www.joshuaprager.com/articles/runaway-money/ now.