Using stick figures, Leaf illustrated the didactic yet humorous text, which is meant to entertain as well as edify. His first children’s book, Grammar Can Be Fun (1934), came about because he overheard a mother lecturing her young son about the inappropriateness of saying “ain’t.”
Stokes Company, a publishing firm in New York. He taught secondary school, then worked as editor and director for Frederick A. Unforgettably paired with Robert Lawson’s black-and-white etchings, Leaf’s beloved tale of a peaceful Spanish bull ranks significantly in the field of American children’s literature as the first picture book to be labeled subversive, as well as an exemplary, seamless union of text and art.īorn in Maryland, Munro Leaf obtained degrees from the University of Maryland and Harvard University. He is best known as the creator of The Story of Ferdinand(1936), a modern juvenile classic that has charmed children worldwide for more than half a century.
During his forty-year career in children’s literature, Munro Leaf wrote and illustrated nearly forty books. American author and illustrator, 1905-1976.
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