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R.I.P. M.B. Goffstein, 77, in Dec. 2017 (Caldecott Honor: "Fish for Supper," 1977)
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She was a writer/illustrator and wrote for teens as well.
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/Obituary/article/75716-obituary-brooke-goffstein.html
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By Shannon Maughan | Dec 29, 2017
Marilyn Brooke Goffstein, award-winning author-illustrator and fine artist, whose work was published under the name M.B. Goffstein and Brooke Goffstein, died on December 20, 2017—her 77th birthday—following a long illness.
Goffstein was born on December 20, 1940 in St. Paul, Minn. and grew up there. In her autobiographical essay for Fourth Book of Junior Authors and Illustrators, she said that she knew from childhood that she would pursue art as a profession. That feeling, she said, stemmed from her Minnesota roots where her parents’ examples helped instill in her the idea “that work was the only real dignity, the only real happiness, and that people were nothing if their lives were not dedicated. My choice was art.”
During her years at Bennington College she studied writing, poetry, and art. It was during this time that she began experimenting with woodcarving and also with small pen-and-ink drawings, which eventually became her signature picture-book illustration style. Goffstein earned her B.A. in 1962 and by then her paintings and drawings had been featured in one-woman shows in St. Paul and New York City, and she had completed two internships at two New York City printers.
After graduating from college, Goffstein moved to New York City and pursued illustration work while working part-time as a bookseller. Though she received positive feedback on her artwork from book editors, she did not land a project until she tried pitching a project that she both wrote and illustrated. In 1996, her first picture book, The Gats!, was published by Michael di Capua at Pantheon. Goffstein’s husband, David Allender, editorial director at Scholastic Book Clubs, recalled the story of that breakthrough. “Brooke was first published in 1966 because Maurice Sendak came to a gallery show of her work,” he said. “Maurice brought his friend, Michael di Capua. Michael offered to publish her first book, The Gats! at Pantheon. And Brooke took him up on the offer. Later that year, Michael took her with him to Farrar, Straus and Giroux.”
Thus began a very prolific period that saw Goffstein often producing more than one book per year...
(snip)
https://www.google.com/search?ei=TcdnWtiNGY7ysQX6-pWQCw&q=mb+goffstein+77&oq=mb+goffstein+77&gs_l=psy-ab.3..33i160k1.5070.5739.0.6115.3.3.0.0.0.0.102.283.2j1.3.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..0.2.193...0i22i30k1.0.SLVOFbCjA3s
(more obits)
AWARDS:
"Book Week's Children's Spring Book Festival honor book, 1966, for The Gats!; New York Times Outstanding Children's Book, 1968, for Across the Sea, 1969, for Goldie the Dollmaker, 1974, for Me and My Captain; New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book, 1972, for A Little Schubert, 1978, for Natural History, 1980, for An Artist; American Library Association Notable Book, 1976, for Fish for Supper, 1978, for Family Scrapbook and My Noah's Ark, 1986, for Our Snowman; Caldecott Honor Book, 1977, for Fish for Supper; Jane Addams Peace Award Special Certificate, 1979, for Natural History; National Book Award nomination, 1980, for An Artist; Sleepy People, Across the Sea, My Noah's Ark, An Artist, A Writer, School of Names and Our Snowman were selected for American Institute of Graphic Arts' Children's Book Shows."
http://mbgoffstein.com
(her site)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1979/09/09/the-intimate-world-of-m-b-goffstein/5edab426-462a-420a-87b7-249d6b79855b/?utm_term=.76381c8cfac9
(article on Goffstein from 1979)
https://www.google.com/search?q=mb+goffstein+books&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjYss68oe_YAhVGR6wKHedGD5kQ_AUICigB&biw=1167&bih=927
(book covers)
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/authorpage/m.-b.-goffstein.html
(PW book reviews)
https://www.google.com/search?ei=zsdnWq-ZMsuEsAWLtbDQBw&q=mb+goffstein+kirkus&oq=mb+goffstein+kirkus&gs_l=psy-ab.3..33i160k1l2.1809.3162.0.3390.7.7.0.0.0.0.106.704.2j5.7.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..0.7.703...0i22i30k1.0.f_Df5fn4oZw
(Kirkus reviews)
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/771117.M_B_Goffstein
(reader reviews)
http://www.vintagechildrensbooksmykidloves.com/2011/09/little-schubert.html
(about "A Little Schubert")
WRITINGS:
An Actor (juvenile), illustrated by Goffstein, Harper, 1987.
Our Prairie Home: A Picture Album (juvenile), Harper, 1988.
UNDER NAME M. B. GOFFSTEIN
The Underside of the Leaf (young adult novel), Farrar, Straus, 1972.
A Little Schubert (juvenile), includes record of five Schubert waltzes performed by former husband, Peter Schaaf, Harper, 1972.
Daisy Summerfield's Style (young adult novel), Delacorte, 1975.
Lives of the Artists (juvenile), Farrar, Straus, 1981.
My Editor (for adults), Farrar, Straus, 1985.
An Artists Album (juvenile), Harper, 1985.
SELF-ILLUSTRATED
The Gats! (juvenile; also see below), Pantheon, 1966.
Sleepy People (juvenile; also see below), Farrar, Straus, 1966, revised edition, 1979.
Brookie and Her Lamb (juvenile; also see below), Farrar, Straus, 1967, revised edition, 1981.
Across the Sea (juvenile short stories; also see below), Farrar, Straus, 1968.
Goldie the Dollmaker (juvenile; also see below), Farrar, Straus, 1969.
Two Piano Tuners (juvenile; also see below), Farrar, Straus, 1970.
Me and My Captain (juvenile; also see below), Farrar, Straus, 1974.
The First Books (juvenile; trade paperback collection; includes The Gats!, Sleepy People, Brookie and Her Lamb, Across the Sea, Goldie the Dollmaker, Two Piano Tuners, and Me and My Captain), Farrar, Straus, 1974.
Fish for Supper (juvenile), Dial, 1976.
My Crazy Sister (juvenile), Dial, 1976.
Family Scrapbook (juvenile), Farrar, Straus, 1978.
My Noah's Ark (juvenile), Harper, 1978.
Natural History (juvenile), Farrar, Straus, 1979.
Neighbors (juvenile), Harper, 1979.
An Artist (juvenile), Harper, 1980.
Laughing Latkes (juvenile), Farrar, Straus, 1980.
A Writer (juvenile), Harper, 1984.
School of Names (juvenile), Harper, 1986.
Our Snowman (juvenile), Harper, 1986.
Rosa Lee and Doc Watson, Your Lone Journey, Harper, 1986.
Artists Helpers Enjoy the Evening (juvenile), Harper, 1987.
AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR
A Writer, Harper & Row, 1984.
Our Snowman, Harper & Row, 1986.
School of Names, Harper & Row, 1986.
Your Lone Journey: Paintings, Harper & Row, 1986.
Artists' Helpers Enjoy the Evenings, Harper & Row, 1987.
An Actor, Harper & Row, 1987.
Our Prairie Home: A Picture Album, Harper & Row, 1988.
A House, a Home, Harper & Row, 1989.
Lenona.
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/Obituary/article/75716-obituary-brooke-goffstein.html
First half:
By Shannon Maughan | Dec 29, 2017
Marilyn Brooke Goffstein, award-winning author-illustrator and fine artist, whose work was published under the name M.B. Goffstein and Brooke Goffstein, died on December 20, 2017—her 77th birthday—following a long illness.
Goffstein was born on December 20, 1940 in St. Paul, Minn. and grew up there. In her autobiographical essay for Fourth Book of Junior Authors and Illustrators, she said that she knew from childhood that she would pursue art as a profession. That feeling, she said, stemmed from her Minnesota roots where her parents’ examples helped instill in her the idea “that work was the only real dignity, the only real happiness, and that people were nothing if their lives were not dedicated. My choice was art.”
During her years at Bennington College she studied writing, poetry, and art. It was during this time that she began experimenting with woodcarving and also with small pen-and-ink drawings, which eventually became her signature picture-book illustration style. Goffstein earned her B.A. in 1962 and by then her paintings and drawings had been featured in one-woman shows in St. Paul and New York City, and she had completed two internships at two New York City printers.
After graduating from college, Goffstein moved to New York City and pursued illustration work while working part-time as a bookseller. Though she received positive feedback on her artwork from book editors, she did not land a project until she tried pitching a project that she both wrote and illustrated. In 1996, her first picture book, The Gats!, was published by Michael di Capua at Pantheon. Goffstein’s husband, David Allender, editorial director at Scholastic Book Clubs, recalled the story of that breakthrough. “Brooke was first published in 1966 because Maurice Sendak came to a gallery show of her work,” he said. “Maurice brought his friend, Michael di Capua. Michael offered to publish her first book, The Gats! at Pantheon. And Brooke took him up on the offer. Later that year, Michael took her with him to Farrar, Straus and Giroux.”
Thus began a very prolific period that saw Goffstein often producing more than one book per year...
(snip)
https://www.google.com/search?ei=TcdnWtiNGY7ysQX6-pWQCw&q=mb+goffstein+77&oq=mb+goffstein+77&gs_l=psy-ab.3..33i160k1.5070.5739.0.6115.3.3.0.0.0.0.102.283.2j1.3.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..0.2.193...0i22i30k1.0.SLVOFbCjA3s
(more obits)
AWARDS:
"Book Week's Children's Spring Book Festival honor book, 1966, for The Gats!; New York Times Outstanding Children's Book, 1968, for Across the Sea, 1969, for Goldie the Dollmaker, 1974, for Me and My Captain; New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book, 1972, for A Little Schubert, 1978, for Natural History, 1980, for An Artist; American Library Association Notable Book, 1976, for Fish for Supper, 1978, for Family Scrapbook and My Noah's Ark, 1986, for Our Snowman; Caldecott Honor Book, 1977, for Fish for Supper; Jane Addams Peace Award Special Certificate, 1979, for Natural History; National Book Award nomination, 1980, for An Artist; Sleepy People, Across the Sea, My Noah's Ark, An Artist, A Writer, School of Names and Our Snowman were selected for American Institute of Graphic Arts' Children's Book Shows."
http://mbgoffstein.com
(her site)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1979/09/09/the-intimate-world-of-m-b-goffstein/5edab426-462a-420a-87b7-249d6b79855b/?utm_term=.76381c8cfac9
(article on Goffstein from 1979)
https://www.google.com/search?q=mb+goffstein+books&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjYss68oe_YAhVGR6wKHedGD5kQ_AUICigB&biw=1167&bih=927
(book covers)
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/authorpage/m.-b.-goffstein.html
(PW book reviews)
https://www.google.com/search?ei=zsdnWq-ZMsuEsAWLtbDQBw&q=mb+goffstein+kirkus&oq=mb+goffstein+kirkus&gs_l=psy-ab.3..33i160k1l2.1809.3162.0.3390.7.7.0.0.0.0.106.704.2j5.7.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..0.7.703...0i22i30k1.0.f_Df5fn4oZw
(Kirkus reviews)
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/771117.M_B_Goffstein
(reader reviews)
http://www.vintagechildrensbooksmykidloves.com/2011/09/little-schubert.html
(about "A Little Schubert")
WRITINGS:
An Actor (juvenile), illustrated by Goffstein, Harper, 1987.
Our Prairie Home: A Picture Album (juvenile), Harper, 1988.
UNDER NAME M. B. GOFFSTEIN
The Underside of the Leaf (young adult novel), Farrar, Straus, 1972.
A Little Schubert (juvenile), includes record of five Schubert waltzes performed by former husband, Peter Schaaf, Harper, 1972.
Daisy Summerfield's Style (young adult novel), Delacorte, 1975.
Lives of the Artists (juvenile), Farrar, Straus, 1981.
My Editor (for adults), Farrar, Straus, 1985.
An Artists Album (juvenile), Harper, 1985.
SELF-ILLUSTRATED
The Gats! (juvenile; also see below), Pantheon, 1966.
Sleepy People (juvenile; also see below), Farrar, Straus, 1966, revised edition, 1979.
Brookie and Her Lamb (juvenile; also see below), Farrar, Straus, 1967, revised edition, 1981.
Across the Sea (juvenile short stories; also see below), Farrar, Straus, 1968.
Goldie the Dollmaker (juvenile; also see below), Farrar, Straus, 1969.
Two Piano Tuners (juvenile; also see below), Farrar, Straus, 1970.
Me and My Captain (juvenile; also see below), Farrar, Straus, 1974.
The First Books (juvenile; trade paperback collection; includes The Gats!, Sleepy People, Brookie and Her Lamb, Across the Sea, Goldie the Dollmaker, Two Piano Tuners, and Me and My Captain), Farrar, Straus, 1974.
Fish for Supper (juvenile), Dial, 1976.
My Crazy Sister (juvenile), Dial, 1976.
Family Scrapbook (juvenile), Farrar, Straus, 1978.
My Noah's Ark (juvenile), Harper, 1978.
Natural History (juvenile), Farrar, Straus, 1979.
Neighbors (juvenile), Harper, 1979.
An Artist (juvenile), Harper, 1980.
Laughing Latkes (juvenile), Farrar, Straus, 1980.
A Writer (juvenile), Harper, 1984.
School of Names (juvenile), Harper, 1986.
Our Snowman (juvenile), Harper, 1986.
Rosa Lee and Doc Watson, Your Lone Journey, Harper, 1986.
Artists Helpers Enjoy the Evening (juvenile), Harper, 1987.
AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR
A Writer, Harper & Row, 1984.
Our Snowman, Harper & Row, 1986.
School of Names, Harper & Row, 1986.
Your Lone Journey: Paintings, Harper & Row, 1986.
Artists' Helpers Enjoy the Evenings, Harper & Row, 1987.
An Actor, Harper & Row, 1987.
Our Prairie Home: A Picture Album, Harper & Row, 1988.
A House, a Home, Harper & Row, 1989.
Lenona.
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