Marcia Brown is the recipient of the 1992 Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, presented every three years to an author or illustrator whose books are published in the United States and who has, over a period of years, made a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children. The Library of Congress includes her work in their permanent collection. Her prints have been displayed at the New School for Social Research, Carnegie Institute, Brooklyn Museum, and several galleries. (1962) and Shadow (1982), which all won Caldecott medals. Since she has published over twenty books with Scribners, including Cinderella (1955), Once A Mouse. Stone Soup, the Caldecott Medal winning picture book from Marcia Brown features bright, double-page black, white, and red illustrations. In 1946, with the publication of her first book, The Little Carousel, Charles Scribner's Sons Books of Young Readers launched Marcia Brown's career in children's books. Stone Soup Written by Marcia Brown and Illustrated by Maricia Brown Based on an old French folktate, the story is about how three hungry soldiers outsmart the selfish and miserly people living in a village so that they find themselves making the soldiers a feast.

As a child, Marcia drew whenever possible, even in her book margins at school, and by the time she was twelve, she knew that she wanted to illustrate books. When three hungry soldiers come to a town where all the food has been hidden, they set out to make soup of water and stones, and all the town enjoys a feast. Because her father was a minister, the family lived in many towns.

These numerous accolades attest to Marcia Brown's distinction as one of Americas's most revered creators of children's books.In 1918 Marcia Brown was born in Rochester, New York, the youngest of three girls.

Marcia BrownMarcia Brown is the first and only author-illustrator to be awarded the Caldecott medal three times and to receive six Caldecott Honor Book citations.

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