Brown, Margaret Wise 1910-1952

Overview

Works:	716 works in 2,457 publications in 8 languages and 133,595 library holdings
Genres:	Fiction Juvenile works Picture books Board books Poetry Drama Big books Musical settings Pictorial works Manuscripts
Subject Headings:	Authors, American
Roles:	Creator, Bibliographic antecedent, Originator
Classifications:	PZ7.B8163, [E]

Publication Timeline

1910 |

|2020

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Publications about Margaret Wise Brown

Publications by Margaret Wise Brown

Publications by Margaret Wise Brown, published posthumously.

Most widely held works about Margaret Wise Brown

Margaret Wise Brown : awakened by the moon by Leonard S Marcus ( Book )
Goodnight June : a novel by Sarah Jio ( Book )
Margaret, Frank, and Andy : three writers' stories by Cynthia Rylant ( Book )
Margaret Wise Brown--author of Goodnight moon by Carol Greene ( Book )
Goodnight moon by Margaret Wise Brown ( Recording )

Margaret Wise Brown by Jill C Wheeler ( Book )
Goodnight June : a novel by Sarah Jio ( Recording )
Goodnight nanny-cam : a parody for modern parents by Jen Nessel ( Book )
Goodnight moon by Margaret Wise Brown ( Book )
Children's literature review. excerpts from reviews, criticism, and commentary on books for children and young people ( )
The little river by Margaret Wise Brown ( Book )
The picture book made new : Margaret Wise Brown and her illustrators by Leonard S Marcus ( Book )
Goodnight moon and other sleepytime tales by Margaret Wise Brown ( Visual )
Goodnight iPad : a parody for the next generation by David Milgrim ( Book )
Margaret Wise Brown, the foremost innovator of contemporary literature for children: her works and life as seen through her writings and friends by Eugene M Sheel ( Book )
A story of Margaret Wise Brown by Cynthia Rylant ( Book )
Goodnight moon and more great bedtime stories ( Visual )
Goodnight moon : for high voice and orchestra by Glen Roven ( )
Have a carrot : hidden messages in Margaret Wise Brown's Runaway bunny trilogy and other popular picture books by Claudia H Pearson ( Book )
Have a carrot : Oedipal theory and symbolism in Margaret Wise Brown's Runaway bunny trilogy by Claudia H Pearson ( Book )

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Most widely held works by Margaret Wise Brown

Goodnight moon by Margaret Wise Brown ( Book )
135 editions published between 1947 and 2012 in 4 languages and held by 9,930 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Goodnight to each of the objects in the great green room: goodnight chairs, goodnight comb, goodnight air

The runaway bunny by Margaret Wise Brown ( Book )
95 editions published between 1900 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 6,858 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A little rabbit who wants to run away tells his mother how he will escape, but she is always right behind him

Big red barn by Margaret Wise Brown ( Book )
42 editions published between 1954 and 2011 in English and held by 3,963 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Rhymed text and illustrations introduce the many different animals that live in the big red barn

My world of color by Margaret Wise Brown ( Book )
32 editions published between 1949 and 2008 in English and Spanish and held by 3,577 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A little bunny delights in all the familiar things in his daily life

The golden egg book by Margaret Wise Brown ( Book )
45 editions published between 1947 and 2015 in English and Chinese and held by 2,715 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A Bunny finds an egg with something moving inside of it, and when a baby duck pecks his way out of the egg, the two animals become friends

Two little trains by Margaret Wise Brown ( Book )
21 editions published between 1949 and 2006 in English and held by 2,546 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Two little trains, one streamlined, the other old-fashioned, puff, puff, puff, and chug, chug, chug, on their way West

On Christmas Eve by Margaret Wise Brown ( Book )
27 editions published between 1938 and 2000 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,349 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Overview: In the big, quiet house where parents are sleeping, the children wait and listen, thinking of reindeer and angels and stars. Then, with no sound but there own thumping hearts, the children creep downstairs to see the glorious tree and to make a Christmas wish. Margaret Wise Brown's magical story captures all the wonder and mystery of a child's Christmas Eve. Nancy Edwards Calder's exquisite paintings highlight all the details that make this night so special. Unable to sleep on Christmas Eve, four children creep downstairs to see the tree, their stockings, their wrapped gifts, and to hear the singing of the carolers

Christmas in the barn by Margaret Wise Brown ( Book )
21 editions published between 1952 and 2007 in English and held by 2,265 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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

A pussycat's Christmas by Margaret Wise Brown ( Book )
19 editions published between 1949 and 2009 in English and held by 2,151 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Pussycat knows Christmas is coming, plays in the snow, and watches the Christmas preparations

The important book by Margaret Wise Brown ( Book )
11 editions published between 1949 and 2004 in English and French and held by 2,093 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Relates what is important about glass, a spoon, a daisy, grass, rain, snow, an apple, wind, sky, a shoe and you

Buenas noches, Luna by Margaret Wise Brown ( Book )
27 editions published between 1947 and 2012 in 4 languages and held by 1,960 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Before going to sleep, a little rabbit says goodnight to many different things

A child's good night book by Margaret Wise Brown ( Book )
25 editions published between 1943 and 1996 in English and Japanese and held by 1,959 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Animals, people, and things become quiet and sleep when night comes

The little scarecrow boy by Margaret Wise Brown ( Book )
17 editions published between 1998 and 2005 in English and held by 1,958 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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

Home for a bunny by Margaret Wise Brown ( Book )
35 editions published between 1956 and 2012 in English and held by 1,940 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A bunny searches the spring-time forest for a home of his own

The little fir tree by Margaret Wise Brown ( Book )
9 editions published between 1954 and 2005 in English and held by 1,919 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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

Where have you been? by Margaret Wise Brown ( Book )
20 editions published between 1952 and 2004 in English and held by 1,780 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In rhyming verse, various animals tell where they have been

The fierce yellow pumpkin by Margaret Wise Brown ( Book )
3 editions published between 2003 and 2004 in English and held by 1,676 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A little pumpkin dreams of the day when he will be a big, fierce, yellow pumpkin who frightens away the field mice as the scarecrow does

Another important book by Margaret Wise Brown ( Book )
7 editions published between 1999 and 2007 in English and held by 1,653 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Illustrations and simple rhyming text describe how a child grows from ages one through six

Little fur family by Margaret Wise Brown ( Book )
32 editions published between 1946 and 2008 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,627 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The experiences of the little fur child as he investigates some other creatures of the wild wood

Bunny's noisy book by Margaret Wise Brown ( Book )
8 editions published between 2000 and 2002 in English and held by 1,579 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A little bunny listens to noises all around him and then makes some of his own

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