{"id":411,"date":"2011-09-06T01:33:51","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T05:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/?p=411"},"modified":"2013-05-15T09:18:38","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T13:18:38","slug":"off-to-a-hopping-good-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/off-to-a-hopping-good-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Off to a hopping-good start"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Thacher<\/a>

Children\u2019s book author and illustrator Thacher Hurd, son of Clement Hurd, who illustrated Brown\u2019s most famous books, inaugurated the festival\u2019s series of Saturday morning story hours.<\/p><\/div>\n

The yearlong Margaret Wise Brown Festival got off to a gleeful start this summer with the Goodnight Hush:<\/em> Classic Children\u2019s Book Illustrations<\/em> exhibition in the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, featuring original illustrations from Goodnight Moon<\/em> and The Runaway Bunny,<\/em> paired with those of contemporary children\u2019s book artists Thacher Hurd, Ashley Wolff, and Ruth Sanderson.<\/p>\n

Thacher Hurd, a children\u2019s book author and illustrator (Art Dog<\/em> and Mama Don\u2019t Allow<\/em>), is the son of the late Clement Hurd, a close friend of Margaret Wise Brown who illustrated her most famous books, Goodnight Moon<\/em> and The<\/em> Runaway Bunny<\/em>. Hurd read to seventy-five children and parents during the festival\u2019s first of six Saturday morning story hours that will take place through April 2012. He also entertained a standing-room-only crowd of adults with stories about Brown passed down through his family. Although Thacher was a favorite of Brown\u2019s, he was three years old when she died and does not personally remember her.<\/p>\n

Other summer activities included a highly successful painting workshop for children by Ashley Wolff and a lecture by Ruth Sanderson, both nationally acclaimed illustrators and members of the children\u2019s literature graduate program faculty. Using Brown\u2019s book I Like Bugs<\/em> as his \u201ctext,\u201d Associate Professor of Biology Morgan Wilson led an entomology workshop for children.<\/p>\n

The fall will showcase a Hollins Theatre production of a musical version of Goodnight Moon<\/em>, the Hollins University Concert Choir and Valley Chamber Orchestra performance of the classical lullaby Goodnight Moon<\/em>, and a Halloween-themed story hour. Santa Claus (a.k.a. theatre chair Ernie Zulia) will read Brown\u2019s Christmas and winter stories on December 3 by the Christmas tree in Hollins\u2019 own Great Green Room.<\/p>\n

Spring will feature instrumentalists from the Roanoke Symphony performing a narrated musical version of The Runaway Bunny,<\/em> a scavenger hunt on Front Quad, and for April Fool\u2019s Day an adults-only reading of Goodnight Moon<\/em> spoofs and spinoffs.<\/p>\n

The festival will end at Reunion 2012, which will mark the eightieth anniversary of Brown\u2019s graduation from Hollins in 1932, the seventieth anniversary of The Runaway Bunny<\/em>, the sixty-fifth anniversary of Goodnight Moon<\/em>, and the sixtieth anniversary of Brown\u2019s untimely death at age forty-two.<\/p>\n

For a complete schedule of festival activities, visit Hollins\u2019 Margaret Wise Brown Festival Web page<\/a>. All events are open to the public. Also, check out additional photos taken at Thacher Hurd\u2019s June reading on the Margaret Wise Brown Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The yearlong Margaret Wise Brown Festival got off to a gleeful start this summer with the Goodnight Hush: Classic Children\u2019s Book Illustrations exhibition in the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, featuring original illustrations from Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny, paired […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":599,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in_the_loop","tag-summer-2011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":602,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions\/602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollins.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}