Margaret Wise Brown

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....

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.

Antes de irse a dormir, un pequeño conejo dice buenas noches a muchas cosas diferentes. Before going to sleep, a little rabbit says goodnight to many different things.

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,...

Early one morning, a little scarecrow whose father warns him that he is not fierce enough to frighten a crow goes out into the cornfield alone.

A little kitten comes ashore on a beautiful island.

A lonely little fir tree, standing by itself at the edge of the forest, has its life transformed when a father takes it home to serve as a living Christmas tree for his bedridden son.

A collection of stories and poems, arranged in the categories "Adventure," "Big and Little," "Bravery," "Love and Friendship," "Happiness," "Belonging," "For a Rainy Day," "Nonsense," "Colors," and "Nature."