Margaret Wise Brown wrote hundreds of books and stories during her life, but she is best known for Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny. Even though she died nearly 70 years ago, her books still sell very well. Margaret loved animals. Most of her books have animals as characters in the story. She liked to write books that had a rhythm to them. Sometimes she would put a hard word into the story or poem. She thought this made children think harder when they are reading. She wrote all the time. There are many scraps of paper where she quickly wrote down a story idea or a poem. She said she dreamed stories and then had to write them down in the morning before she forgot them. She tried to write the way children wanted to hear a story, which often isn't the same way an adult would tell a story. She also taught illustrators to draw the way a child saw things. One time she gave two puppies to someone who was going to draw a book with that kind of dog. The illustrator painted many pictures one day and then fell asleep. When he woke up, the papers he painted on were bare. The puppies had licked all the paint off the paper. Margaret died after surgery for a bursting appendix while in France. She had many friends who still miss her. They say she was a creative genius who made a room come to life with her excitement. Margaret saw herself as something else - a writer of songs and nonsense.
Series
Books
The Find It Book
2015
Red Light, Green Light
1944
LITTLE PUSSYCAT, A LITTLE GOLDEN BOOK
1979
The Noisy Book
1939
Once upon a Time in a Pigpen and Three Other Stories
1980
The Winter Noisy Book
1947
Love Songs of the Little Bear Friendship Box
2001
The Train to Timbuctoo
1951
Be Brave, Little Tiger!
2018
The Color Kittens
1949
Goodnight Little One
1961
Margaret Wise Brown's Wonderful Storybook
25 Stories & Poems
1948
Fox Eyes
1951
Young Kangaroo
1900
Wish Upon a Dream
2013
Walt Disney's
The Grasshopper and the Ants
1993
Robin's Room
2002
The Days Before Now
1994
Margaret Wise Brown 5-Minute Stories
2019
Sneakers
1955
The Old Mill
1994
My World
1949
A Child's Good Morning Book
1952
Give Yourself to the Rain
Poems for the Very Young
2002
The Whispering Rabbit and Other Stories
1965
The Dirty Little Boy
2001
The Golden Egg Book
1947
The Good Little Bad Little Pig
1938
Nibble Nibble
1959
Jingle Paws
2014
Love Song of the Little Bear
2015
The Wonderful House
1950
Away in My Airplane
2013
I Like Stars
1954
Sneakers, the Seaside Cat
1985
The Quiet Noisy Book
1950
Home for a Bunny
1956
Sunshine and Snowballs
2013
Over the Moon
A Collection of First Books: Goodnight Moon, The Runaway Bunny, and My World
2006
Wait Till the Moon Is Full
1948
The Seashore Noisy Book
1941
All the Families
2013
When the Wind Blew
1937
The Steamroller
A Fantasy
1938
The Sleepy Book
1948
One More Rabbit
2015
The Diggers
1960
Bumble Bugs and Elephants
A Big and Little Book
1938
The Little Island
1946
Big Red Barn
1956
The Whispering Rabbit
1965
Four Fur Feet
1961
The Little Fireman
1938
Christmas in the Barn
1952
Sleepy Little Lion
1947
SLEEP TIGHT, SLEEPY BEARS
2012
Under the Sun and the Moon
1900
The Sailor Dog
1953
Seven Little Postmen
1971
The Little Scarecrow Boy
1998
The Little Fir Tree
1954
Two Little Gardeners
1951
The Happy Little Rabbit
2016
From the World of Goodnight Moon
100 First Words
2020
A Child's Good Night Book
1943
Little Fur Family
1946
FRIENDLY TALES
2008
Animals in the Snow
1995
Little Indian
1954
A Baby's Gift, Packaging May Vary
2001
Don't Frighten the Lion
1942
The Noon Balloon
1952
Sleepy ABC
1994
A Long Time that I've Loved You
2019
Three Little Animals
1956
Around The World We Go
2012
Goodnight Songs
A Celebration of Seasons
2015
Sheep Don't Count Sheep
2003
Sleep Little Angel
2012
All the Little Fathers
2015
Five Little Firemen
1949
Little Chicken
1943
The Dead Bird
1938
Goodnight Bunny
2005
A Pussycat's Christmas
1949
Two Little Trains
1949
The Dream Book
1950
The Moon Shines Down
2008
Goodnight Moon
1947
Wheel on the Chimney
1954
Bumble Bee
1999
The Three Orphan Kittens
1995
My World of Color
1809
I Like Bugs
1938
The Fathers Are Coming Home
2007
Walk With Me
2018
The Sleepy Men
1996
On Christmas Eve
1961
North, South, East, West
2017
The Friendly Book
1954
Goodnight Moon 123
A Counting Book
2007
Baby Animals
1941
Mouse of My Heart
Picture Book
2001
Good Day, Good Night
2017
Little Donkey Close Your Eyes
1938
Mister Dog
The Dog Who Belonged to Himself
1952
Goodnight Songs
2014
Margaret Wise Brown's Manners
1994
The Runaway Bunny
1942
The little fat policeman
1950
Another Important Book
1999
On Christmas Day
2011
I Like Fish
2014
Doctor Squash the Doll Doctor
1952
Bunny's Noisy Book
2000
The Important Book
1949
Where Have You Been?
1952
The Golden Birthday Book
1989
A Home in the Barn
2018
Sailor Boy Jig
2002
The Summer Noisy Book
1951
The Indoor Noisy Book
1942
Count To 10 With A Mouse
2012
The Fierce Yellow Pumpkin
1938
The Little Fisherman
1945
A Child is Born
2000
The Margaret Wise Brown Treasury
2013
The Fish with the Deep Sea Smile
1938
The Country Noisy Book
1940
Goodnight Moon ABC
An Alphabet Book
2010
Nursery Rhyme Search and Find
2019
