From: fran manushkin <franm>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:39:34 -0400

Leonard,, how about more Ursula stories? I can never get enough. Having worked for her, she looms large in my unconscious. I still dream about her. Of course, anything else about Margaret Wise Brown that hasn't been in print would also be fine to hear about. Fran On Jul 22, 2008, at 10:27 AM, Linnea Hendrickson wrote:

Thanks to all of you for the wonderful discussion spurred by "Minders of Make-Believe." My copy is on its way.

The following made my morning!

> I had interviewed Ursula Nordstrom for my biography of Margaret
> Wise Brown. By then she was living in a retirement home in
> Connecticut. The plan was for me to take a bus up to a nearby strip
> mall and be met by her and a friend. Standing next to Ursula on the
> sidewalk was a teenager with a boom box turned up very high. I
> stepped down from the bus, locked eyes with the woman I saw must be
> Ursula, and took in an earful of the music. The first thing she
> said to me was: "Want to dance?"

Linnea Hendrickson Lhendr at unm.edu



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