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Margaret Wise Brown

Margaret Wise Brown was born in Brooklyn, NY. While working as a teacher at the Bank Street Experimental School, she started writing books for children. Margaret was a prolific writer. Over 100 of her stories were published as picture books during her lifetime. She also wrote articles about writing for children, adapted classics, ghost wrote stories and many of her stories appear in anthologies.

On November 13, 1952 at the age of 42 she died from an embolism, following a operation while on vacation in France. Posthumously several stories were at publishers ready for publication. In recent years many of Margaret's works have been reprinted. Many were previously published as stories in collections and anthologies; some are from unfinished manuscripts.

American writer of children's books (1910–1952)

Born May 23, 1910
Died November 13, 1952

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  • Cover of: Goodnight Moon/Buenas Noches, Luna: Bilingual Spanish-English

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  • Cover of: The runaway bunny

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  • Cover of: The little island
    Cover of edition littleisland00marg_0 Cover of edition isbn_9780385908726 First published in 1946 23 editions

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  • Cover of: Big red barn.
    Cover of edition bigredbarn0000brow_d4f6 Cover of edition bigredbarn00brow Cover of edition bigredbarn1995brow First published in 1956 23 editions

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  • Cover of: Golden Egg Book
    Cover of edition goldeneggbook00brow_0 Cover of edition goldeneggbook00brow Cover of edition goldeneggboo00brow First published in 1947 19 editions

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  • Cover of: Home For a Bunny

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  • Cover of: The Dead Bird
    Cover of edition deadbird0000brow Cover of edition deadbird00brow Cover of edition deadbird00brow First published in 1958 18 editions

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  • Cover of: My world
    Cover of edition myworldbrow00brow Cover of edition isbn_9780066238418 Cover of edition myworld00brow_0 Cover of edition myworld00brow First published in 1949 17 editions

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  • Cover of: Goodnight Moon 123: A Counting Book

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  • Cover of: Little fur family
    Cover of edition littlefurfamily00brow_0 Cover of edition littlefurfamilyb00mar_hfb First published in 1946 16 editions

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  • Cover of: A pussycat's Christmas

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  • Cover of: A Child's Good Night Book

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  • Cover of: The diggers
    Cover of edition losexcavadores0000brow Cover of edition diggers0000brow Cover of edition diggers0000brow_r0z0 First published in 1960 13 editions

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  • Cover of: The fish with the deep sea smile

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  • Cover of: Margaret Wise Brown's the Color Kittens

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  • Cover of: Two little trains
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  • Cover of: On Christmas Eve
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  • Cover of: The Sailor Dog
    First published in 1953 11 editions

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  • Cover of: Nibble nibble: poems for children

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  • Cover of: I like stars
    Cover of edition ilikestars0000brow First published in 1998 11 editions

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American writer of children's books (1910–1952)

Born May 23, 1910
Died November 13, 1952

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June 24, 2024 Edited by dcapillae merge authors
March 1, 2024 Edited by Juushika reordered artist bio for clearer chronology
December 29, 2023 Edited by bitnapper Edited without comment.
December 29, 2023 Edited by bitnapper merge authors
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import