Margaret Wise Brown, Author Scholastic $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-590-44559-7
With its important lesson told in rhythmic word patterns, Brown's cautionary tale from the '40s receives new life with illustrations--after the original style--by a Caldecott-winning artist. Ages 4-8. (Aug.)
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Margaret Wise Brown, Author , illus. by Clement Hurd. HarperTrophy $5.99 (
, $5.99 ISBN ) ISBN 978-0-694-01660-0
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"This melodic companion to Goodnight Moon
, narrated by the endearing rabbit child, introduces those elements of his life that he holds most dear," wrote PW.
Ages 1-4. (Feb.)
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Margaret Wise Brown, Author, Larry Moore, Author, Aesop, Author Random House Disney $12.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-56282-534-8
Well before Goodnight, Moon , Brown retold a series of classic stories for Walt Disney, among them this kindly version of the classic Aesop's fable. Moore's intensely colored, filmic illustrations magnify a miniature world and add an art deco flavor.
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Margaret Wise Brown, Author, Dan Andreasen, Illustrator , illus. by Dan Andreasen. S&S/ McElderry $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-83348-9
This slim, posthumously published rhyme occasions lighthearted oil paintings from Andreasen (By the Dawn's Early Light), who trades his customarily solemn, realistic style for something closer to cartoon. Giving new meaning to the phrase "sea
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Margaret Wise Brown, Author, Stephen Savage, Illustrator , illus. by Stephen Savage. S&S/McElderry $16.99 (24p) ISBN 978-0-689-83345-8
As these books prove, Dad knows best—except when kids know even better.
The Fathers Are Coming Home
Margaret Wise Brown
, illus. by Stephen Savage. S&S/McElderry
, $16.99 (32p) $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-83345-8
Brown's simple text...
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Margaret Wise Brown, Author, H. A. Rey, Author, H. A. Rey, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $4.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-443262-7
A resourceful poodle in girl's clothing tours the zoo undetected--not--in this jolly tale by the author of Goodnight Moon. Ages 3-7. (Feb.)
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Margaret Wise Brown, Author, Steven Salerno, Illustrator Winslowhouse International $16.95 (40p) ISBN 978-1-890817-52-7
This story, first published in Jack and Jill in 1939, feels dated now, despite a glossy treatment by Salerno (Chicken Chuck). The title character, sticky with jam and grit, appeals to his ""big round mother"" to give him a bath, but she is ""so busy
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Margaret Wise Brown, illus. by Christian Robinson. Harper, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-028931-7
Brown’s 1938 story, best known from a 1958 version illustrated by Remy Charlip, describes a group of children who discover a dead bird. Robinson (Leo: A Ghost Story) pictures a verdant urban park, where four children—one dressed as a red fox,...
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Margaret Wise Brown, Author, Floyd Cooper, Illustrator Hyperion Books $6.99 (22p) ISBN 978-0-7868-1840-2
Board books let youngest readers share in the holiday spirit. In a starred review of the picture book published in 200o, PW called A Child Is Born by Margaret Wise Brown, illus. by Floyd Cooper, (available in board book here for the first time) ""
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Margaret Wise Brown, Author, Lisa McCue, Illustrator Hyperion Books $14.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0472-6
Over the course of a day, Little Bunny puts his long ears to good use and discovers a world full of sounds--birds chirping, bees buzzing--some of them (a sneeze, a stretch) of his own making. Brown's (Goodnight Moon) posthumous text reads more like...
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Margaret Wise Brown, Author, Anne Mortimer, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-028692-7
Another Margaret Wise Brown book, Sneakers, the Seaside Cat, taken from the 1955 publication Sneakers: Seven Stories About a Cat, gets full-bleed illustrations by acclaimed artist of felines Anne Mortimer. As the family cat visits the ocean for ...
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Margaret Wise Brown, Author, Susan Jeffers, Illustrator Random House Children's Books $16 (0p) ISBN 978-0-394-82040-8
``It is morning, and everything is waking up. / Birds are waking up the way birds wake up. / Pigs are waking up the way pigs wake up. / And children are waking up too.'' A black girl in a farmhouse has breakfast and gets dressed before helping her...
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Margaret Wise Brown, Author, Leo Dillon, Illustrator HarperCollins $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-028376-6
Two-time Caldecott Medalists Leo and Diane Dillon team up with Margaret Wise Brown in Two Little Trains, first published in 1949. Right from the cover, the sleek, horizontal illustrations chronicle the parallel journeys of the titular trains: a...
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Margaret Wise Brown, Author, Leo Dillon, Illustrator, Diane Dillon, Illustrator , illus. by Leo and Diane Dillon. HarperTrophy $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-443568-0
"Each spread chronicles the parallel journeys of the titular trains. On the left, a streamlined train stretches against expansive vistas, while, on the right, a toy wooden locomotive travels on familiar domestic turf, locations wittily chosen...
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Margaret Wise Brown, Author, Steve Johnson, Illustrator, Lou Fancher, Illustrator , illus. by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher. Hyperion $14.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0602-7
This uneven vision of a child's ideal room joins the many and mixed posthumous works by Brown (Two Little Trains; The Dirty Little Boy) already on the bookstore shelf. Robin, an artistic soul, "sawed legs off of chairs./ And he planted...
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Margaret Wise Brown, Author, Garth Williams, Illustrator Golden Books $8.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-307-10643-8
Golden Books brings back three Big Little Golden Books, picture books from the 1940s and '50s now available in larger-sized, paper-over-board editions. Originally published in 1954, The Friendly Book by Margaret Wise Brown, illus. by Garth...
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Margaret Wise Brown, Author, Garth Williams, Illustrator HarperFestival $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-051898-1
A handful of reissues have nostalgic appeal or, in some cases, an updated look. Margaret Wise Brown's 1946 classic returns as the Little Fur Family Deluxe Edition, illus. by Garth Williams. A furry patch on the cover invites youngsters to rub the
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Margaret Wise Brown, Author, Garth Williams, Illustrator, Garth Brooks, Illustrator Golden Books $8.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-307-10546-2
Random House launches Big Little Golden Books with a quartet of vintage titles in a new, larger trim size. First published in 1942, The Poky Little Puppy by Janette Sebring Lowrey, illus. by Gustaf Tenggren, stars a curious canine who just can't...
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Margaret Wise Brown, Author, Barbara Cooney, Illustrator, Leo Dillon, Illustrator , illus. by Leo and Diane Dillon. HarperCollins $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-028378-0
Having previously illustrated Goodnight Moon
author Brown's Two Little
Trains
, the Caldecott Medal–winning Dillons update what seems a minor work by the late author (the original 1952 edition was illustrated by Barbara Cooney). A...
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Margaret Wise Brown, Author, Barbara Cooney, Author, Barbara Cooney, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $5.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-443083-8
Brimming with Christmas spirit, Brown's quiet story is timeless, like all classics. So too are Caldecott Medalist Cooney's colorful pictures of woodland wonders in all seasons, huggable children and a lame boy's loving father. Every year at...
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Margaret Wise Brown, Author, Felicia Bond, Author, Aida E. Marcuse, Translator Rayo $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-026225-9
Another all-time favorite by Brown masterfully and beautifully translated by Marcuse. The Spanish version maintains the rhythm and imagination that characterizes the original.
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Margaret Wise Brown, Author, David Diaz, Illustrator , illus. by David Diaz. HarperTrophy $6.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-077891-0
According to PW
, "This scarecrow boy may be made of straw, but he's all heart—and so is this picture book." Ages 3-7. (Aug.)
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Margaret Wise Brown, Author, David Diaz, Illustrator Joanna Cotler Books $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-026284-6
Hewing to an earthy palette of cornfield yellows, oranges, and greens, with shades of blue for contrast, Caldecott Medalist Diaz (Smoky Night) makes a dramatic departure, in a winsome interpretation of Brown's previously unpublished tale. In typical
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Margaret Wise Brown, Author, Ashley Wolff, Illustrator HarperTrophy $5.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-443507-9
Wolff treats Brown's bedtime poem to luminous, large-scale pictures that glow with the radiance and precision of stained glass. Ages 4-8. (Oct.)
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Margaret Wise Brown, Author, Karen Katz, Illustrator , illus. by Karen Katz. HarperCollins $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-128864-7
Katz's (Princess Baby
) nursery patchwork quilt approach is a far cry from the Jean Charlot illustrations originally paired with Brown's (Goodnight Moon
) text back in 1952 (the book was created as a companion to the Caldecott Honor title...
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Margaret Wise Brown, Author, Dan Yaccarino, Illustrator , illus. by Dan Yaccarino. Hyperion $15.99 (24p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0600-3
Published for the first time as a standalone, this story from Brown's 1939 collection, The Fish with the Deep Sea Smile,
features a boy who understands that creatures are never all good or all bad, but good and bad all at once—a...
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Margaret Wise Brown, Author, Teri L. Weidner, Illustrator, Leonard S. Marcus, Foreword by , illus. by Teri L. Weidner, foreword by Leonard S. Marcus. S&S $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-689-83344-1
Although many of the previously unpublished poems in this posthumous collection demonstrate the lyricism of Brown's best work, others seem clunky, as if the poems needed further polishing to find the quiet rhythms and grace of language hidden...
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Margaret Wise Brown, Author, Chris Raschka, Illustrator Joanna Cotler Books $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-026282-2
While Brown's 1949 title, The Important Book, described the essential qualities of the familiar things in a child's world, this never-before-published companion addresses the developing characteristics of children themselves. As Brown leads readers...
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Margaret Wise Brown, Author, Clement Hurd, Illustrator , illus. by Clement Hurd. HarperCollins $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-024798-0
Originally published in 1949 (two years after Goodnight Moon) and out of print for more than 30 years, this melodic companion narrated by the endearing rabbit child introduces those elements of his life that he holds most dear. Brown's minimal...
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Margaret Wise Brown, Author, Clement Hurd, Illustrator HarperFestival $8.99 (36p) ISBN 978-0-694-00862-9
Originally published in 1949 (two years after its companion, Goodnight Moon), My World by Margaret Wise Brown, illus. by Clement Hurd, was reissued in 2001 (after being out of print for more than 30 years)-and here neatly adapts to a board book ...
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Based on the book by Margaret Wise Brown, illus. by Clement Hurd, Harper, $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-189484-8
Repurposing Hurd's original illustrations, this abecedarian adaptation pairs letters of the alphabet (and corresponding words) with objects and elements from the "great green room," including kittens, paintings, and a red balloon. The myriad objects
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Margaret Wise Brown, Author, Clement Hurd, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $31.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-623846-3
Just in time for gift-giving season, the two hardcover staples for every nursery Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown, illus. by Clement Hurd are now available in a handsome fabric-covered shrink-wrapped cardboard sleeve as
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Margaret Wise Brown, Author, Clement Hurd, Illustrator HarperFestival $12.99 (34p) ISBN 978-0-694-01675-4
Just in time for gift-giving season, the two hardcover staples for every nursery Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown, illus. by Clement Hurd are now available in a handsome fabric-covered shrink-wrapped cardboard sleeve as
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Margaret Wise Brown, Author, Clement Hurd, Author, Teresa Mlawer, Translator Rayo $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-026214-3
Loyal to the original, this translation has retained the poetic and soothing tone that makes it a favorite read-aloud. It's as popular among Spanish readers as its original always has been among English readers.
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Margaret Wise Brown, Author, Golden MacDonald, Author, Leonard Weisgard, Illustrator Doubleday Books for Young Readers $14.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-385-74640-3
Several old favorites are being reissued this month. The Caldecott Medal-winning The Little Island by Margaret Wise Brown, illus. by Leonard Weisgard, tells about the seasons and animals that touch a small island (""There was a little Island in ...
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Margaret Wise Brown, Author, Garth Williams, Author, Garth Williams, Illustrator HarperFestival $9.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-694-00004-3
A handful of reissues have nostalgic appeal or, in some cases, an updated look. Margaret Wise Brown's 1946 classic returns as the Little Fur Family Deluxe Edition, illus. by Garth Williams. A furry patch on the cover invites youngsters to rub the
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Margaret Wise Brown, Author, Margaret Wise Brown, Author, Garth Williams, Illustrator Golden Books $12.95 (48p) ISBN 978-0-375-82779-2
An elegant jacketed reissue re-presents The Golden Sleepy Book by Margaret Wise Brown, illus. by Garth Williams. This 1948 compilation of gentle stories, poems and songs of sleepy rabbits, horses and all manner of familial fauna acts as a ...
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Margaret Wise Brown, Author, Margaret Wise Brown, Author, Leonard Weisgard, Illustrator Golden Books $8.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-375-82717-4
A pair of rabbit-themed reissues are back just in time to serve as basket treats. The 1947 classic The Golden Egg Book by Margaret Wise Brown, illus. by Leonard Weisgard, returns as a Big Little Golden Book. When a curious bunny finds a blue ...
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Margaret Wise Brown, Author, Linda Bleck, Illustrator, Laura Minchew, With , illus. by Linda Bleck. Thomas Nelson $16.99 (48p) ISBN 978-1-4003-1299-3
“Completed” by Thomas Nelson publisher Laura Minchew, this unfinished manuscript by the author of Goodnight Moon
takes as its inspiration the nursery rhyme/child’s prayer “I See the Moon.” The result lacks the clean...
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Margaret Wise Brown, Author, Golden Books, Author, Leonard Weisgard, Illustrator Golden Books $2.08 (28p) ISBN 978-0-307-12096-0
Certainly an occasion worth noting: this is a previously unpublished text by Brown (who died in 1957 after producing some 90 picture books) and illustrated by her most frequent collaborator. The text is characteristically brief, poetic and childlike:
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Margaret Wise Brown, Author, Thomas B. Allen, Author, Joan W. Blos, Editor Simon & Schuster $15 (1p) ISBN 978-0-671-79628-0
Adapted from an autobiographical entry Brown (1910-1953) wrote for a 1951 edition of the Junior Book of Authors, this poetic reminiscence is marked by the author's trademark simplicity and visual imagery. Brown (see also Four Fur Feet, reviewed...
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Margaret Wise Brown, Author, Symeon Shimin, Author, Symeon Shimin, Illustrator Yearling Books $3.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-440-40670-9
The author of Goodnight Moon blends an endearing nature story--illustrated in delicate, two-color drawings--with facts about these exotic animals. Ages 2-6. (July)
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Margaret Wise Brown, Author, Richard Floethe, Illustrator Yearling Books $4.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-440-40567-2
Soft and sweet is this lilting nighttime verse by the celebrated author of Goodnight Moon , attractively complemented by soothing, deep-toned watercolors. Ages 3-7. (Oct.)
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Margaret Wise Brown, Author, Richard Egielski, Illustrator , illus. by Richard Egielski. HarperCollins $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-024479-8
Appropriately for All Hallow's Eve, one of the season's holiday standouts is a posthumous publication. The late great Brown (Goodnight Moon) tells the story of a "fat little, round little, yellow little pumpkin [who] began to think he...
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Margaret Wise Brown, Author, Robert Rayevsky, Author, Robert Rayevsky, Illustrator Hyperion Books $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0154-1
Once again, the poetry of the late Brown inspires an illustrator to an equally poetic achievement. This is a bedtime book, but much more impressionistic in style and approach than the author's classic Goodnight Moon. Its focus is a tale (about ""the
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Margaret Wise Brown, Author, Nancy E. Calder, Joint Author, Nancy Edwards Calder, Illustrator HarperCollins Publishers $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-023648-9
Three children sneak out of bed to observe their cozy house awash in the quiet magic of Christmas Eve. Brown's (Goodnight Moon) text balances heart-pounding, childlike excitement with graceful imagery (""The Christmas tree was all there, trimmed...
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Margaret Wise Brown, Author, Woodleigh Marx Hubbard, Author, Woodleigh Marx Hubbard, Illustrator Hyperion Books $12.95 (24p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0002-5
Playing Clement Hurd to the late, great Brown is a tall order for any illustrator, even when the volume is no Goodnight, Moon. Brown serves up contagious rhyme with an alliterative sing-song refrain: ``Oh he walked around the world on his four fur...
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Love Songs of the Little Bear: Love Song of the Little Bear/Green Song/Song of Wind & Rain/Snow Song
Margaret Wise Brown, Author, Susan Jeffers, Author, Susan Jeffers, Illustrator Hyperion Books $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0509-9
This fitful collection of four previously unprinted poems by the author of Goodnight Moon proves that posthumous publication is risky business. The art, dynamically presented, has the tenderness of Jeffers's work in the McDuff series as well as the...
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Margaret Wise Brown, Author, Maureen Sullivan, Editor, Loretta Krupinski, Illustrator Hyperion Books $19.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0628-7
Mouse of My Heart: A Treasury of Sense and Nonsense gathers 56 poems and stories by Margaret Wise Brown, many previously unpublished. With an introduction by Leonard Marcus and jewel-like illustrations by Loretta Krupinski, this is one handsome...
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Margaret Wise Brown, Author, J. P. Miller, Illustrator Golden Books $12.95 (48p) 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
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Margaret Wise Brown, Author, Loretta Krupinski, Illustrator , illus. by Loretta Krupinski. Hyperion $15.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0605-8
Krupinski (who illustrated the posthumous Brown anthology Mouse of My Heart) treats brief rhymed verses about 11 colors to a series of lavish tableaux, creating a visual story line in which two mice—a painter and his apprentice—travel...
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Margaret Wise Brown, illus. by Jonathan Bean, Carin Berger, Sophie Blackall, et al. Sterling, $17.95 (28p) ISBN 978-1-4549-0446-5
Twelve talented illustrators interpret gentle poems by the late Brown, all but three of which have never before been published. In an introduction, Amy Gary, editor of Brown's estate, describes finding hundreds of the writer's unpublished...
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Margaret Wise Brown, illus. by Alessandra Psacharopulo. Parragon, $7.99 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4723-5064-0
Italian artist Psacharopulo’s soft, grainy illustrations accompany this previously unpublished Christmas story from Goodnight Moon author Brown. When Cat hears noises on Christmas Eve, he rushes to investigate. Meanwhile, a little white mouse...
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Margaret Wise Brown. Sterling, $17.95 (36p) ISBN 978-1-4549-0447-2
This accompanying volume to Goodnight Songs (2014) features 12 more unpublished poems and songs by Brown, illustrated by as many artists, including Floyd Cooper, Molly Idle, David Small, and Frank Viva. “Winter Adventure” conveys a child’s encounter
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Margaret Wise Brown, illus. by Greg Pizzoli. Harper, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-026278-5
This poetic tale from the author of Goodnight Moon is no less fresh for having lain unpublished for so long. A mother bird prepares her nestling to fly away to a home of her own, teaching her “to fly above and below the storms,/ and to glide on the...
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Margaret Wise Brown, illus. by Greg Pizzoli. HarperCollins, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-267651-1
“Two little trains/ went down the track,/ two little trains went West.// PUFF PUFF PUFF/ CHUG CHUG CHUG/ two little trains to the West.” The soothing clickity-clack of the late Brown’s verse lulls as effectively as when it first appeared 70 years...
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Margaret Wise Brown, illus. by Loren Long. Harper, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-238310-5
Created from two unpublished fragments written by Brown in 1950, this book seems slyly designed to answer the question, “What happened to that bunny from Goodnight, Moon?” This bunny has brown fur and is older and more independent. Long’s velvety,...
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Margaret Wise Brown, illus. by Anna Dewdney. HarperCollins, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-237986-3
A rough-hewn barn of stone and wood, nestled in a field dotted with sheep and palm trees, sets the scene for this newly illustrated version of Brown’s cozy 1952 story of Jesus’s birth. The late Dewdney’s canvas-textured, mixed-media artwork is well-m
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Margaret Wise Brown, illus. by Jerry Pinkney. HarperCollins, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-623787-9
“Outside in the cold/ Hear the wind rattle/ Stay in the barn/ Keep warm with the cattle.” Atmospheric lines by the late, legendary author begin this story of the gathering in of winter on a farm, illustrated with finely developed paintings by...
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