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.

• Goodnight Moon
  Goodnight Moon 2005
• The Runaway Bunny
  The Runaway Bunny 2006
• I like bugs

  
  I like bugs 1999
• Big Red Barn
  Big Red Barn 1920
• The Little Island
  The Little Island 1946
• My world

  
  My world 1949
• The color kittens

  
  The color kittens 1949
• A child's good night book
  A child's good night book 1943
• Home for a Bunny
  Home for a Bunny 2003
• The Important Book
  The Important Book 1949
• The Dead Bird
  The Dead Bird 1958
• The Sailor Dog
  The Sailor Dog 1953
• A Pussycat's Christmas
  A Pussycat's Christmas 1949
• On Christmas Eve
  On Christmas Eve 1961
• Little Fur Family
  Little Fur Family 2005
• The Little Scarecrow Boy
  The Little Scarecrow Boy 1998
• Where have you been?
  Where have you been? 1952
• The golden egg book
  The golden egg book 1947
• Sneakers, the seaside cat

  
  Sneakers, the seaside cat
• Pussy Willow
  Pussy Willow 1951
• Nibble nibble
  Nibble nibble 1998