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“It’s good to have a Goffstein,” said The New York Times Book Review. Here’s something even better—twenty-six of M. B. Goffstein’s best-known, and best-loved, books for children and adults.
Groundbreaking when first published, and perhaps more resonant today than ever, Goffstein’s work champions the value of simplicity, nature, self-reliance, spiritual connections, and living a creative and meaningful life. With humor and insight, Goffstein enlarges our world from seemingly small details. With lyrical artist biographies, poetic gems, stories of family and making one’s way in life, Words Alone is also a celebration of a singular writer and artist.
Two sensitive and funny portraits of young women determined to be artists and coming of age in the late 1950s, M. B. Goffstein’s novels for young adults are available again—published together for the first time in one volume.
Drawing from the author’s own life experience, The Underside of the Leaf and Daisy Summerfield’s Style are both about the journeys of girls from the Midwest, as they explore the boundar
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M. B. Goffstein, signing posters for Natural History, New York is Book Country, 1979
M. B. Goffstein, known to friends as Brooke, was among the most original author-artists to ever create books for children.
She never followed trends or sought commerical success, always believing in the value of work only she could create.
“A book by M.B. Goffstein is a beautifully simple and simply beautiful thing.”
— New York Times Book Review
Ms. Goffstein pioneered the picture book essay in books such as Natural History (1979), An Artist (1980), A Writer (1984), My Editor (1985), School of Names (1986), and An Actor (1987).
She took deep joy in her own devotion to art and captured that spirit in Goldie the Dollmaker (1969), Two Piano Tuners (1970), A Little Schubert (1972), Daisy Summerfield’s Style (1975), Lives of the Artists (1981), and An Artists Album (1985). Of all her work, she was perhaps proudest of Artists’ Helpers Enjoy the Evenings (1987) as an expression of her artistic vision.
“M.B. Goffstein is one of the finest il
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M. B. Goffstein
American writer
M. B. Goffstein
Born (1940-12-20)December 20, 1940
St. Paul, MinnesotaDied December 20, 2017(2017-12-20) (aged 77)
Danbury, Connecticut, USResting place Temple of Aaron Cemetery
Roseville, Minnesota, U.S.Occupation Author, artist, teacher Language English Citizenship USA Alma mater Bennington College Genre Children's literature Notable works Fish for Supper
Natural History
An ArtistNotable awards New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Books of the Year
Jane Addams Children's Book Award
Caldecott HonorSpouse David Allender M. B. Goffstein (20 December 1940–20 December 20, 2017) was an American writer and illustrator of books for children and adults.[1] She was the recipient of three New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Books of the Year (A Little Schubert, Natural History, and An Artist),[2] Special Recognition from the Jane Addams Children's Book Award (Natural History),[3] and a Caldecott Honor for Fish for Su
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