Margaret Wise Brown

Runaway Bunny, The Story of Babar - The Little Elephant and Goodnight Moon are national treasures and many of us remember them from our childhood. Catherine Zeta-Jones narrates The Runaway Bunny in a new piano trio version composed by GPR Records artistic director and 4-time Emmy Award Winner, Glen Roven. This piece premiered at Carnegie Hall with the American Symphony. Runaway Bunny was written in 1942 and has been published continuously since that...

The Scent and Other Short Stories is a collection of four works by Margaret Wise Brown, the beloved children's author of Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny, along with hundreds of other books, stories and songs. Margaret's books have sold millions of copies all over the world, but few people know that she was at the center of a children's book publishing revolution. Her whimsy and imagination fueled a steady stream of stories, book ideas, songs,...

My Self to You is a collection of letters from Margaret Wise Brown to her on again/ off again lover, Michael Strange (born Blanche Oelrichs). These touching and, at times, fraught letters provide a deeply personal look into their intertwined affair as it unravels and rebuilds. Strange, the former wife of the actor John Barrymore, gained her own celebrity through the publication of her love poems Resurrecting Life. She also was a playwright and...

This is a collection of works by Margaret Wise Brown that was originally published in 1999. Containing poems, stories, songs, and notes by the best-selling author of many well-known children's books, Willie the Whistling Giraffe provides insight into the way Margaret wrote and thought about writing. At the time her death, Margaret had begun working with record companies along with radio and television producers to create mixed media projects for children....

Goodnight to each of the objects in the great green room: goodnight chairs, goodnight comb, goodnight air.

Peter's wish comes true when he gets a little pet pig who is sometimes good and sometimes bad.

Rhymed text and illustrations introduce the many different animals that live in the big red barn.

Lyrical text relates the birth of a child in a barn among the animals, with illustrations which depict the barn and people of a present-day farm. Annotation. What child is this Who is born here Where the oxen Stomp and peer... When christmas in the barn was first published in 1952, it demonstrated all of Margaret Wise Brown's mastery at skillfully fashioning a truly childlike interpretation of the Nativity story. For this larger, full-color edition,...

Rhymed text and illustrations introduce the many different animals that live in the big red barn.

Relates what is important about glass, a spoon, a daisy, grass, rain, snow, an apple, wind, sky, a shoe and you.