let’s meet marc brown. marc brown is the author and illustrator of the famous arthur books
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Let’s Meet Marc Brown
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Marc Brown is the author and illustrator of the famous Arthur books.
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Marc was born in 1946 in Erie, Pennsylvania.
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When Marc was a boy growing up in Pennsylvania, his Grandma Thora told him stories. He says she was the best storyteller ever! Marc gave Arthur’s Grandma the same name!
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Marc began telling stories when his first child, Tolon, was born. He loved to make up bedtime stories for him every night.
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One night the story was about an aardvark who did not like his nose, that aardvark became Arthur, and the story, Arthur’s Nose.
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Did you notice that Arthur looked very different in that first book? Marc changed Arthur’s look a few times over the years.
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Since the first book, Marc has written and illustrated over 30 books about Arthur, his family and friends.
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Marc makes the characters in his books like people from his real life. Buster is like Marc’s best friend from elementary school.
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D.W. and Francine do some of the same things Marc’s three sisters did while they were growing up.
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Marc also uses things that his three children, Tolon, Tucker, and Eliza said and did when they were little to help him come up with story ideas, too.
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A fun thing to do while reading Marc Brown’s picture books is to look for his children’s names hidden in the pictures.
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The newest Arthur books are longer books for older children to read.
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Arthur seems to be everywhere ! He’s even in the big Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
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There is even a TV show about Arthur and his friends.
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Marc Brown lives in Hingham, Massachusetts and Martha’s Vineyard with his wife and daughter, Eliza. Tolon and Tucker are all grown up and on their own.
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The End
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http://pbskids.org/arthur/games/moviemaker/moviemaker.htmlLet students change the story elements to match the mood of the story.