According to Leonard Marcus, ???she was a highly innovative juveniles editor, and throughout her career she played impresario to the entire field, taking pleasure in discovering or furthering the careers of illustrators and writers such as Clement and Edith Thacher Hurd, Garth Williams, Leonard Wisegard, Esphyr Slobodkina, Jean Charlot, and Ruth Krauss.???5 Brown published a number of her own book