Little Fur Family [SEP] illustrator
Little Fur Family
Little Fur Family is a 1946 picture book written by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Garth Williams. It tells the story of a little fur child's day in the woods. The day ends when his big fur parents tuck him in bed "all soft and warm," and sing him to sleep with a bedtime song.
Publication history.
This book is the first Brown and Williams collaboration; Harper's answer to Simon & Schuster's hugely popular "Pat the Bunny". Other books
adults as well as children. Williams later said that seeing grownups on buses and trains reading "Stuart Little" persuaded him to continue as a freelance illustrator.
Shortly thereafter he began his collaboration with Margaret Wise Brown with "The Little Fur Family", Harper's answer to Simon & Schuster's "Pat the Bunny". Nordstrom knew that the book would be a success when a mother wrote to tell her that her little boy had held open his copy at the dinner table, and tried to feed it his supper