author
Palmer Cox
1840–1924
Best known for creating the Brownies, he helped shape children's popular culture with lively verse and playful drawings. His tiny, mischievous characters became a late-19th-century sensation and appeared in books, comics, and advertising.
4 Audiobooks
The Brownies: Their Book
by Palmer Cox
Another Brownie Book
by Palmer Cox
Frontier Humor in Verse, Prose and Picture
by Palmer Cox
About the author
Born in Granby, Quebec, in 1840, Palmer Cox became a Canadian author and illustrator whose career flourished in the United States. After time in San Francisco, he settled in New York, where his humorous writing and drawings reached a wide audience.
He is remembered above all for The Brownies, a hugely popular series about helpful, impish little sprites. Cox wrote the verses and drew the illustrations himself, and the Brownies became famous far beyond the page, appearing in merchandise and advertisements as well as in his books.
Cox's work made him one of the best-known creators of children's entertainment of his era. He died in 1924, but the Brownies remain an important early example of character-based storytelling and illustration in North American popular culture.