Palmer Brown (1920-2012) was born in Chicago and attended Swarthmore and the University of Pennsylvania. He was the author and illustrator of many books for children, including Something for Christmas, Beyond the Pawpaw and its sequel The Silver Nutmeg, and the upcoming Cheerful and Hickory, all published by the New York Review Children’s Collection.
Books
Cheerful
Cheerful is a city mouse who spends his days frolicking in the church where he lives with his siblings, Solemnity, Faith, and Hope—but he longs for the country, where mice run free. Palmer Brown’s filigreed drawings turn this sweet, simple story into an instrument of enchantment as glorious as a stained-glass window or the sugar-spun Easter egg that conveys Cheerful to his pastoral home. “Adorable is the word to describe Cheerful.”—Chicago Daily Tribune
The Silver Nutmeg
The Silver Nutmeg continues the adventures begun in Beyond the Pawpaw Trees, and features loads of sense, a little nonsense, and more delightful verses from Anna Lavinia’s beloved Songs from Nowhere. Best of all, fans of Palmer Brown’s intricate drawings will find every page a delight for the eyes.
Beyond the Pawpaw Trees
Beyond the Pawpaw Trees is a tour through a land as strange and wonderful as Oz, filled with people as delightfully batty as any in Alice’s looking glass. It is a book to which you will want to return again and again, to read of Anna Lavinia’s adventures and to marvel over author and illustrator Palmer Brown’s intricate, sugar-spun drawings.
Something for Christmas
Sweet, charming, and as magical as a wrapped gift. This is the story of a little mouse’s search for a very special gift for a very special person. Nothing seemed just right. Then the little mouse realized that the very best present of all was already at hand.