The Wonderful House

Margaret Wise Brown. Golden Books, $12.95 (48pp) ISBN 978-0-307-10326-0

A host of picture books return in new editions. Margaret Wise Brown's The Wonderful House (1950), illus. by J.P. Miller, reappears in a larger trim size. Opening with a farmhouse (""Who lives here? A boy and a girl live here""), the book proceeds with a view of the barn and an assortment of animal homes (a nest, a turtle shell, etc.).

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