Amazingly humble, he also was a hilarious storyteller and convivial companion. “You could recognize his voice in a moment-he was an exceptionally talented wordsmith and always knew exactly what children would enjoy hearing the most. “Sam McBratney was a profoundly lovely human being,” she said. and president and publisher of Candlewick Press in the U.S., paid tribute to the author. In a statement, Karen Lotz, group managing director of the Walker Books Group in the U.K. Little Nutbrown Hare’s world suddenly glows with the discovery of friendship.” This story is about one of those moments. Sharing some insight on his approach to the new work, McBratney recently said, “When writing about the hares, I aim to describe moments of emotional significance but with loads of humor and the lightest of touches. A highly anticipated companion book, Will You Be My Friend?, also illustrated by Jeram, has a global pub date of September 29. It has been translated into 57 languages and is at the heart of a global licensing program. Though McBratney created more than 50 books during his career, Guess How Much I Love You has stood apart over the years, selling more than 50 million copies worldwide. “I love you right up to the moon,”/…“I love you right up to the moon-and back”), marked McBratney’s professional shift to full-time author. The enormous success of the gentle bedtime tale illustrated by Anita Jeram, in which Little Nutbrown Hare and his father, Big Nutbrown Hare, try to top each other in expressing who loves the other more (e.g. He continued writing and publishing children’s books on the side until the publication of Guess How Much I Love You in 1994. He married his wife Maralyn in 1964, and while they were raising their three children, McBratney earned his living as a primary and secondary teacher of history and English.īy 1976 he had published his first book, a novel entitled Mark Time, about rival gangs of preteen boys, one Catholic, one Protestant, set during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. He graduated from Trinity College in Dublin with honors and a degree in modern history and political science. McBratney was born Main Belfast, Northern Ireland and grew up in the nearby town of Lisburn.
Irish children’s author Sam McBratney, most widely known for the classic, bestselling picture book Guess How Much I Love You, died September 18.
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