Picture Book Bohemia: A Children’s-Book Walking Tour of Greenwich Village Led by Historian and Critic Leonard Marcus

This tour is postponed to Sunday 24, at 10am (due to forecast of thunderstorms on Saturday)

Greenwich Village—fabled bohemia of avant-garde poets, painters, and assorted rebels--was also a vibrant creative crossroads for children’s literature’s greats. On this walking tour, we’ll visit the sites where Where the Wild Things Are, The Very Hungry Caterpiller, and--yes--Make Way for Ducklings were all created; wander the park H.A. Rey sketched from his front window; pass the school where Goodnight Moon author Margaret Wise Brown launched her career and the nearby Wonderland cottage that became her writing studio; and inspect the architectural “ghost” where modern American children’s book publishing was born.

Meet at the northeast corner of Fifth Avenue & 12th Street, opposite the Forbes building

• Leonard Marcus