Hurd estuvo casado con la escritora Edith Thacher Hurd, con quien también creó muchos libros que se convirtieron en favoritos de los niños. Allí fue donde desarrolló su estilo característico, compuesto de colores de fuerte contraste. Estudió pintura en París en los años 1930 con Fernand Léger, entre otros. A native of New York City, he lived most of his life in Vermont and California.Ĭlement Hurd (1908–1988) se graduó de Yale University. He illustrated more than one hundred books, many of them with his wife, Edith Thacher Hurd, including the Johnny Lion books, The Day the Sun Danced, and The Merry Chase. By Brown, Margaret Wise Illustrated by Hurd, Clement. After his return to the United States in 1935, he began to work in children's books. Goodnight Moon Board Book with Milestone Cards (Board Book).

He studied painting in Paris with Fernand Léger and others in the early 1930s. Brown include My World Christmas in the Barn The Dead Bird North, South, East, West and Good Day, Good Night.Ĭlement Hurd (1908–1988) is best known for illustrating Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny, the classic picture books by Margaret Wise Brown. All in all, I enjoyed it, and especially if you loved the books when you were a kid or have read them to your own kids, it’s worth checking out.Margaret Wise Brown, cherished for her unique ability to convey a child’s experience and perspective of the world, transformed the landscape of children’s literature with such beloved classics as Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny. No pictures were allowed during the show, but they allowed pictures of the set afterward and the puppeteers came out to show kids how the puppets work, which is what these pictures are from. This entire presentation is done on a set that glows under a black light to enhance the set details and mask the puppeteers who are wearing black.

Goodnight Moon is a bedtime story of an anthropomorphic rabbit and the room they sleep in, everything that surrounds them as they go through their bedtime routine.

Each of the scenarios is acted out with different puppets as the bunny and his mother transform. The Runaway Bunny is a semi-speculative tale where a young bunny tells his mother how he’s going to run away in more and more fantastical ways and his mother tells him how she’s going to find him in each case. Based on the famous children’s books written by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Clement Hurd from 19 respectively.

Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny are two short theatrical presentations currently being toured by Mermaid Theater of Nova Scotia.

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