M. B. Goffstein
M. B. Goffstein was an American writer and illustrator of books for children and adults. She was the recipient of three New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Books of the Year, Special Recognition from the Jane Addams Children's Book Award, and a Caldecott Honor for Fish for Supper.
Biography
Marilyn Brooke Goffstein was born in St. Paul, Minnesota on December 20, 1940, the daughter of Albert and Esther Goffstein. She graduated from Bennington College in 1962, creating a sculpture for her senior show. Her first children's book, The Gats!, was published in 1966 with editor Michael di Capua. They worked for the next twenty years together—their last project coming in 1986 with My Editor.In the summer of 1980, she taught with Lore Segal at the Writing Workshops at Bennington College. She also taught children's book illustration at Parsons School of Design and the University of Minnesota's Split Rock Arts summer program.
Works
The Gats! Sleepy People Brookie and Her Lamb Across the Sea Goldie the Dollmaker Two Piano Tuners The Underside of the Leaf A Little Schubert Me and My Captain The First Books Daisy Summerfield's Style Fish for Supper My Crazy Sister Family Scrapbook My Noah's Ark Natural History Neighbors An Artist Laughing Latkes Lives of the Artists A Writer An Artists Album My Editor Our Snowman School of Names Your Lone Journey Artists' Helpers Enjoy the Evenings An Actor Our Prairie Home: A Picture Album A House, a Home Words Alone: Twenty-Six Books Without Pictures Art Girls Together: Two Novels Daisy Summerfield's Art: The Complete Flea Market Mysteries- ''Biography of Miss Go Chi: Novelettos & Poems''