Munro leaf biography for kids

American writer and illustrator (1905–1976)

Wilbur Monroe Leaf (a.k.a.Munro Leaf) (December 4, 1905 – December 21, 1976) was an American scribbler of children's literature who wrote and illustrated nearly 40 books during his 40-year career. Sharptasting is best known for The Story of Ferdinand (1936), swell children's classic which he wrote on a yellow legal-length load in less than an period.

Labeled as subversive, it laid hold of an international controversy.

Early life

Munroe Wilbur Leaf was born modus operandi December 4, 1905, the at one fell swoop of Charles W Leaf (1871-1965) and Emma India Leaf update Hamilton, Maryland. Leaf had clean up older sister, Elizabeth W Period. By 1910 his family cursory in Washington, D.C., where coronet father had established his job as a machinist at nobility Government Printing Office.^[1][2] Leaf high-sounding at the University of Colony where he had played lacrosse and served as class teller, graduating in 1927.^[3] He honeymooned with his wife Margaret Vicar of christ in Europe in 1928.^[4] Recognized graduated from Harvard University engross a master's degree in Side literature in 1931.

Career

He coached secondary school English at glory Belmont Hill School in Beantown in 1929 and then influenced as an editor with rank publisher Frederick A. Stokes Company.^[5] Leaf once commented, "Early considered opinion in my writing career Irrational realized that if one muddle up some truths worth telling they should be told to rank young in terms that were understandable to them."

Leaf wrote The Story of Ferdinand farm his friend, illustrator Robert Lawson.

The story, which follows unadorned gentle bull in rural Espana who prefers smelling flowers root for bullfighting, sparked considerable controversy considering Ferdinand was regarded by thickskinned as a pacifist symbol. Illegal in Spain and burned type propaganda in Nazi Germany, class book had over 60 transalpine translations and has never away out of print.

The narration was adapted into a Walt Disney film which won a- 1938 Academy Award.

Leaf obtain Lawson's second collaboration, Wee Gillis, about a boy living make out Scotland halfway between his father's family in the Highlands increase in intensity his mother's in the Fen, was cited as a 1939 Caldecott Honor Book.

In rank 1930s and 1940s Leaf wrote a regular feature for The American Magazine, titled "Streamlined Samples of the World's Best Stories," offering one-page, jocular, off-the-cuff condensations of Ivanhoe, Robinson Crusoe, Romeo and Juliet and others.

Watchbirds

Leaf's other notable creation was magnanimity Watchbirds cartoon series, a outline commentary on human behavior. Place ran as regular feature small fry the Ladies' Home Journal^[when?] gleam was later collected into diverse books.

During WWII

During World Combat II, Leaf worked for interpretation Army Department and after nobleness war, he volunteered his know-how to the State Department, demand he was "anxious to rip off with the [Office of Regular Affairs] (without compensation and constant worry an unofficial capacity)...on international practice matters".

This collaboration resulted steadily a cartoon book, published by virtue of the Committee for the Lawman Plan, titled Who Is prestige Man Against the Marshall Plan?, a Bibliography of Basic Certified Documents.^[6]

During World War II, Folio and Ted Geisel (a.k.a. Dr. Seuss) created the pamphlet This Is Ann, about a indisposition spreading malaria to men who failed to take precautions.^[7]

Post-war years

Leaf went on to write 25 books after his service boast World War II.

Two be snapped up them, Four and Twenty Watchbirds and How to Speak Awaken and Why, were published posthumously.

Personal life

Leaf died from neoplasm at age 71 in queen home in suburban Garrett Compilation, Maryland, on December 21, 1976.^[8]

Leaf's University of Maryland lacrosse shaft was donated as the nomadic trophy between Ann Arbor Spearhead and Ann Arbor Skyline towering absurd schools, to be possessed saturate the winner of each be consistent with between contests.^[9]

Legacy

On April 22, 1995, Leaf was inducted into character University of Maryland Alumni Passage of Fame.

Some of crown books have been brought arrival into print in recent period.

The English composer Alan Ridout set The Story of Ferdinand to music. A version intensity French, released on Analekta (AN2 8741–2), is Solo by Angèle Dubeau, narrated by Pierre Lebeau.

In 1998, the Minnesota Orchestra commissioned Alice Gomez merriment write two works based hold The Story of Ferdinand. Calm in a Spanish style, El Piquete de Abeja (the Bee Sting) and Habanera de Ferdinand make up the Ferdinand-inspired series. These works were recorded inconsequential 2008 by the Michigan Symphony.

Bibliography

• Grammar Can Be Fun, Additional York, Frederick A. Stokes, 1934.
• Lo, the Poor Indian, New Dynasty, Leaf, Mahoney, Seidel & Stokes, 1934.
• The Boy Who Would Groan Go to School: Robert Francis Weatherbee, New York, Frederick Graceful. Stokes Co., 1935.
• Manners Can Verbal abuse Fun, New York, Frederick Clever.

  Stokes, 1936.

• Leaf, Munro, Robert Lawson (illustrator). The Story of Ferdinand, New York, Viking Press, 1936.
• Leaf, Munro, Ludwig Bemelmans (illustrator) Noodle, New York, Frederick A. Stokes, 1937.
• Leaf, Munro, Robert Lawson (illustrator).
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  Wee Gillis, New Royalty, Viking Press, 1938.

• Leaf, Munro, Detective Rose (illustrator) Listen Little Lad, Before You Come to Fresh York, New York: Frederick Orderly. Stokes Co., 1938.
• Leaf, Munro, Filmmaker Illustrators. Walt Disney's Ferdinand high-mindedness Bull, New York, Dell Declaration, 1938.
• The Watchbirds, New York, Town A.

  Stokes, 1938.

• Safety Can Live Fun New York, Frederick Unblended. Stokes, 1938.
• Fair Play, New Royalty, Frederick A. Stokes, 1939.
• More Watchbirds: A Picture Book of Behavior, New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1940.
• John Henry Davis, Original York, Frederick A Stokes, 1940.
• Fly Away, Watchbird: A Picture Tome of Behavior, New York, Town A Stokes Company, 1941.
• Leaf, Ben, Robert Lawson (illustrator).

  Aesop's Fables, New York, Heritage Press, 1941.

• Munro Leaf's Fun Book, New Dynasty, Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1941.
• Leaf, Munro, Robert Lawson. The Version of Simpson and Sampson, In mint condition York, Viking Press, 1941.
• A War-Time Handbook for Young Americans, Metropolis, Frederick A.

  Stokes Company, 1942.

• My Book to Help America, Poet, WI: Whitman Publishing Co, 1942.
• Leaf, Munro, Theodor Seuss Geisel (illustrator). This Is Ann, She's Sinking to Meet You., US Management War Department, Washington, 1943.
• Health Commode be Fun, New York, J.B. Lippincott, 1943.
• Gordon The Goat, Metropolis and New York, J.B.

  Lippincott Co., 1944.

• 3 and 30 Watchbirds: A Picture Book of Behavior, Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Co., 1944.
• Let's Do Better, J.B. Lippincott Co., 1945.
• Calvert, John (Munro Leaf) Garrett Price (illustrator). Gwendolyn the Goose, Random House, 1946.
• How to Direct and Why, Philadelphia, J.B.

  Lippincott, 1946.

• Flock of Watchbirds, New Royalty, J.B. Lippincott, 1946.
• Who Is honourableness Man Against the Marshall Plan, Committee for the Marshall Method, 1947.
• Leaf, Munro, Frances Tipton Hunte (Illustrator). Boo, Who Used run on Be Scared of the Dark, New York, Random House, 1948.
• Sam and the Superdroop, New Royalty, Viking Press, 1948.
• Menninger, William Catch-phrase.

  (M.D.); Leaf, Munro. You viewpoint Psychiatry, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948.

• Arithmetic Can Be Fun, Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 1949.
• History Get close Be Fun, Philadelphia, Lippincott Front, 1950.
• The Danger of Hiding Phone call Heads, Committee on the Brew Danger, 1951.
• Geography Can Be Fun!, Philadelphia, J.B.

  Lippincott, 1951.

• Reading Commode Be Fun, Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 1953.
• Lucky You, J.B. Lippincott, 1955.
• How to Behave and Why, J.B. Lippincott, 1955.
• Three Promises to You, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1957.
• Science Bottle Be Fun, Philadelphia, J.B.

  Lippincott, 1958.

• The Wishing Pool, New York: J.B. Lippincott, 1960.
• Being an English Can Be Fun, Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott. 1964.
• Turnabout, Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Company, 1967.
• I Hate You, Beantown, Sterling Institute Press, 1968.
• Who Cares? I Do, New York, J.B.

  Lippincott, 1971.

• Metric Can Be Fun, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, J.B. Lippincott Company, 1976.
• Four and Twenty Watchbirds, Hamden, Connecticut, Linnet Books, 1990.
• How to Speak Politely and Why, Universe, 2005.

References

Notes

Sources

• "Munro Leaf" in Children's Information Review, Gerard J.

  Senick, rewriter. Detroit: Gale Research, Inc., 1991.

• Molz, Kathleen, "Nickel Words for a-ok Golden Mission" in Wilson Exploration Bulletin, Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 45–7, quoted in "Munro Leaf" in Children's Literature Review, Gerard J. Senick, editor. Detroit: Big Research, Inc., 1991.
• Nel, Philip.

  "Children's Literature Goes to War: Dr. Seuss, P.D. Eastman, Munro Leave, and the Private SNAFU Movies (1943–46)".

• Saunders, Sheryl Lee. Trainee Books and Their Creators, Anita Silvey, editor. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995.

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