Brown, Marcia Joan (1918-2015), was an American illustrator of children’s books. She was the first artist to win the Caldecott Medal three times. She won in 1955 for Cinderella; or The Little Glass Slipper (1954); in 1962 for Once a Mouse (1961); and in 1983 for Shadow (1982). She also adapted and illustrated such folk tales as Stone Soup (1947), Dick Whittington and His Cat (1950), The Three Billy Goats Gruff (1957), and Bun: A Tale from Russia (1972). Her essays and speeches were collected in Lotus Seeds: Children, Pictures and Books (1985). Brown was born on July 13, 1918, in Rochester, New York. She received the Regina Medal in 1977 and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award (now called the Children’s Literature Legacy Award) in 1992. She died on April 28, 2015.
