Margaret Wise Brown
Author
Language
English
Description
Margaret Wise Brown was the author of Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny, along with hundreds of other books, stories and songs. She was renowned not only for her prolific writing and publishing savvy, but also for her stunning beauty and thirst for adventure. She spent her royalties on extravagant parties and was known for making friends wherever she went. She was engaged to the heir to the Rockefeller fortune when she traveled to France in 1952....
Author
Language
English
Description
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....
7) Big red barn
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rhymed text and illustrations introduce the many different animals that live in the big red barn.
Author
Language
English
Description
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,...