★ “It’s now clear that the librarian bunny and Mac Barnett share a common passion: advocacy for children’s free access to books.
★ “Barnett’s confiding tone draws readers in… then makes the case for Brown’s work.” The important thing is that you wrote this picture book-this picture book about Margaret Wise Brown. But we guess we will say this: have a carrot.
Honestly? We don't know what more to say. Or her whole life short, really, right? Isn't it a shame she died so young? At 42-as you document in this picture-book biography, this love letter to her life, and to her astonishing legacy to children's literature. Just like Margaret Wise Brown was herself, her whole life long. And Jacoby channels Clement Hurd, and Leonard Weisgard, and Garth Williams, and so many other Brown collaborators-and yet? Jacoby remains herself. Just like Brown's texts, yours is quirky, and sweet, experimental, funny, and at times heartbreakingly gorgeous. You've framed her conflict with a stuffy librarian as an epic, funny battle. You've sat with her respect for child readers as thinking, feeling, whole beings, and you've invited us, your readers, and hers, to do the same. You've acknowledged her queerness, telling readers she fell in love "with a woman called Michael and a man called Pebble." You've honored her words with references to such titles as Goodnight Moon, The Runaway Bunny, The Little Fur Family, and more. You've paid tribute to a woman who changed picture books. Here and now, we say to Barnett and Jacoby: We SEE what you've done. ★ “The important thing about this review is to say this picture book is great. In forty-two inspired pages, this biography artfully plays with form and language to vividly bring to life one of greatest children’s book creators who ever lived: Margaret Wise Brown.
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