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	Margaret Wise Brown - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Margaret Wise Brown (23 May 1910 - 13 November 1952) was a United States author of children's literature, which include Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny, both illustrated by Clement Hurd.
		Brown was born in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and she attended boarding school in 1923 in Switzerland while her parents were in India.
		On 13th November of that year while on a book tour in France, Brown contracted appendicitis and was taken to a hospital where she died of complications.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Margaret_Wise_Brown (325 words)

	MARGARET WISE BROWN PAPERS
		Brown is celebrated for the revolutionary quality of her picture books that were based on children's everyday experiences.
		Margaret Wise Brown was born in Brooklyn, New York, on May 23, 1910, to Robert Bruce and Maude (Johnson) Brown.
		Brown's papers were created from her composition of two published books and one unpublished work.
	www.lib.usm.edu /~degrum/html/research/findaids/DG1129b.html (605 words)

	Encyclopedia: Margaret Wise Brown
		Brown went onto develop her Here and Now stories, and later the Noisy Book series while employed as editor at William R. Scott Publishing Company.
		Brown was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in middle-class comfort on suburban Long Island, where she became a keen observer of nature.
		Brown applied this idea in her writings by working in simple, gamelike forms and structures that the young might readily grasp amd make their own.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Margaret-Wise-Brown (825 words)

	Alibris: Wise Brown Margaret
		Margaret Wise Brown's affectionate text, first published in 1949, has been reillustrated by Anne Mortimer in a glowing new edition, perfect for cat lovers and Christmas revelers.
		Margaret Wise Brown's beloved bedtime classics have lulled generations of children to sleep with their soothing sounds.
		Margaret Wise Brown's lulling story about a day at the barnyard is now available as a sturdy board book.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Wise_Brown_Margaret (1074 words)

	The Margaret Wise Brown Web Resource (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
		The numerous books that Margaret Wise Brown wrote during her short career hold a special place in the hearts of children and their parents.
		Margaret Wise Brown awoke one morning in 1945 and shortly thereafter had the full story designed before her (Marcus, The Making of Goodnight Moon, 16).
		The only sad aspect of the book's history is that Margaret Wise Brown did not live to see this boom in Goodnight Moon's popularity due to her tragic death in 1952 (Marcus, The Making of Goodnight Moon, 26).
	www-personal.ksu.edu /~rachaelw/Margaret%20Wise%20Brown/History.html (957 words)

	ipedia.com: Margaret Wise Brown Article
		Margaret Wise Brown was a United States author of children's literature, which include Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny.
		Brown was born in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and she attended boarding school in...
		As she was about to be released from hospital on 13 November, she kicked her leg and fled out from an embolism that rushed from her leg to her brain.
	www.ipedia.com /margaret_wise_brown.html (275 words)

	Long Bio
		Perhaps the quote that most accurately depicted the whimsical attitude Margaret injected into her life was her response to a friend who had asked for the time.
		Margaret confided her fear of dying to Roberta when she was stricken with appendicitis while on a book publicity tour in France.
		In her will, Margaret requested that her body be cremated and her ashes scattered to the sea at her beloved Only House in Maine.
	www.margaretwisebrown.com /long_bio.htm (1726 words)

	Salon.com Books \| Literary Daybook, May 23
		Brown's writing philosophy developed through her association with the "here-and-now" school of children's literature led by Lucy Sprague Mitchell.
		As described by her biographer, Leonard Marcus ("Margaret Wise Brown: Awakened by the Moon," 1992), Brown was dynamic, eccentric and childlike in spirit.
		The marriage remained theoretical, due to Brown's sudden and odd death: In an effort to show she had recovered from routine surgery, she kicked her leg can-can style, and died instantaneously from an embolism.
	salon.com /books/today/2002/05/23/may23/print.html (576 words)

	About the Author: Margaret Wise Brown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
		Margaret Wise Brown, the author of Goodnight Moon and dozens of other children's classics, all but invented the picture book as we know it today.
		Combining poetic instinct with a profound empathy for small children, she knew of a child's need for security, love, and a sense of being at home in the world?and she brought that unique tenderness to the page.
		Brown's youthful presence and professional success?as an editor, bestselling author, and self-styled impresario?masked an insecurity that left her restless and vulnerable.
	www.childrensliteraturenetwork.org /delving/authors/brown_mw.html (128 words)

	Additional Reading (from Margaret Wise Brown) -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
		The real-life Margaret Tobin Brown, never known in life by the nickname Molly, bears little resemblance to the legendary Molly Brown, who was created in the 1930s and achieved prominence in the 1960 musical The Unsinkable Molly Brown and the 1964 film adaptation starring...
		A pioneer in the field of picture books for nursery-school children, Margaret Wise Brown established herself as a major contributor to children' literature before her untimely death at age 42.
		U.S. author and illustrator Marcia Brown's contributions to children's literature earned her the 1977 Regina Medal, the 1992 Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, and a multitude of other prestigious honors.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-219064?tocId=219064 (704 words)

	Margaret Wise Brown, The Fierce Yellow Pumpkin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
		Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Richard Egielski, The Fierce Yellow Pumpkin (Harper Collins, 2003)
		Told in Brown’s typical captivating rhythmic style and illustrated beautifully, emotionally, and atmospherically by the talented Richard Egielski, this story about a little pumpkin with one big ambition is almost startlingly unique.
		The fact that Margaret Wise Brown died nearly half a century ago and that this story is just now being published somehow makes this singularity even more impressive.
	www.greenmanreview.com /book/book_brown_fierceyellow.html (527 words)

	Brown, Margaret Wise -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
		Brown was born on May 23, 1910, in Brooklyn, N.Y. After attending preparatory…
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		Short biography of Margaret O'Brien, focusing on her career as a child actress.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9310412 (706 words)

	Amazon.com: Two Little Trains: Books: Margaret Wise Brown,Leo and Diane Dillon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
		Brown's brilliant yet simple text and the Dillons' clever and striking pictures, will serve as inspiration to many flights of fancy in young readers' minds.
		Then you stumble across something like Margaret Wise Brown's, "Two Little Trains" which was recently reillustrated by the talented Leo and Diane Dillon.
		Widely regarded children's author Margaret Wise Brown originally wrote this story in 1949, possibly with a completely different vision of how it would play out.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060283769?v=glance (2075 words)

	HarperCollins \| Kids \| The Runaway Bunny (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
		Always something of a daydreamer, Brown had a lackluster student career until, as a young woman in the mid-1930's, she enrolled in graduate courses at one of America's most vibrant centers of early childhood development research, New York's Bank Street College of Education.
		At Bank Street, Brown observed children, listened to the stories and poems they told, and found her own vocation.
		In Goodnight Moon, she incited the young to decide which objects of their world mattered enough to them to be remembered one last time at the end of the day.
	www.harperchildrens.com /features/mwb.htm (351 words)

	eBay - margaret wise, Children's Books, Antiquarian Collectible items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
		The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown (1977)
		The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown (1991)
		Under the Sun and the Moon by Margaret Wise Brown pb
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	The Runaway Bunny (Margaret Wise Brown)
		Generations of sleepy children and grateful parents have loved the classics of Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd, including Goodnight Moon.
		Originally copyrighted in 1942, Margaret Wise Brown's 'The Runaway Bunny' is timeless.
		Margaret Wise Brown and illustrator Clement Hurd, who also created the classic 'Goodnight Moon,' included a very discrete reference to 'Goodnight Moon' in one of the illustrations.
	www.productsnapper.com /0061074292-the-runaway-bunny.html (1027 words)

	Save $$ on "Love Songs of the Little Bear" by Margaret Wise Brown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
		From Margaret Wise Brown, the author of the beloved classic, "Goodnight Moon", here are four never before published poems, illustrated with stunning gouache paintings by Susan Jeffers.
		Follow him through the seasons of the year, as he experiences the wonders of the world for the first time.
		Together, Brown and Jeffers have created an ode to the power of parental love and the ways in which it carries a child through the joys of discovery.
	www.kidsurplus.com /abk0-78680509-9.html (132 words)

	Goodnight Moon -- Classic stories by Margaret Wise Brown
		Margaret Wise Brown's Goodnight Moon has been a favorite bedtime story for over fifty years.
		Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd created the perfect companion.
		This Poetic classic by Margaret Wise Brown has comforted small children for over 60 years.
	www.castlemerebooks.com /WebStore/Goodnight_Moon.html (254 words)

	Margaret Wise Brown - OneLook Dictionary Search (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
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		Brown, Margaret Wise : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
		Brown, Margaret Wise, Margaret Wise Brown : Dictionary.com [home, info]
	www.onelook.com /?w=Margaret+Wise+Brown&ls=a (98 words)

	Brown, Margaret Wise, 1910-1952, Papers
		Born May 23, 1910, in Brooklyn (NY), Margaret Wise Brown was the middle child of three.
		Entering the program in the Fall of 1935, Margaret soon fell under the influence of Lucy Sprague Mitchell, "chairman" of the school.
		While this collection has a different provenance, they are included with the Margaret Wise Brown collection because it is small and closely linked to the collection.
	www.hollins.edu /academics/library/services/mwb.htm (1202 words)

	'Goodnight Moon,' Smokeless Version - New York Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
		Now, the retouched picture, with his father standing with his right arm crooked in front of him, two fingers extended with nothing but air between them, "looks slightly absurd to me," he added.
		Clement Hurd, who illustrated close to 100 other books for children and who also collaborated with Margaret Wise Brown on "The Runaway Bunny," died in 1988 at 80.
		His son said that he had stopped smoking sometime in the 1950's, and "he really disliked smoking later in life." Still, he said, he thinks that both his father and Margaret Wise Brown "would be thoroughly amused by this."
	www.nytimes.com /2005/11/17/books/17moon.html?ex=1289883600&en=38aa0d3eb9056a04&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss (788 words)

	Buy.com - El Gran Granero Rojo : Margaret Wise Brown : ISBN 0060262257
		Margaret Wise Brown wrote over 100 books for children and was a pioneer in the areas of children's literature and education.
		Brown won the Caldecott Medal in 1947 for THE LITTLE ISLAND.
		She died at the age of 42 of an embolism following a routine operation.
	www.buy.com /prod/El_Gran_Granero_Rojo/q/loc/106/30003442.html (476 words)

	Another Important Book, Margaret Wise Brown - HarperAcademic
		In a playful voice that is uniquely Margaret Wise Brown's comes this delightful picture book about just what it means to be six, five, four, three, one, two and 'most importantly' you.
		Caldecott Honor Medalist Chris Raschka's innovative illustrations burst with energy and literally dance along with Brown's whimsical verses of discovery.
		Another Important Book is the never-before-published companion to one of the most beloved children's books of all time, The Important Book, originally published in 1949, by Margaret Wise Brown, with illustrations by Leonard Weisgard.
	www.harperacademic.com /catalog/book_xml.asp?isbn=0060262834 (155 words)

	Animals With Margaret Wise Brown Alan Armstrong Bill Martin Jr Eric Carle Sam Mcbratney Doreen Cronin Dorothy Kunhardt ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
		Animals With Margaret Wise Brown Alan Armstrong Bill Martin Jr Eric Carle Sam Mcbratney Doreen Cronin Dorothy Kunhardt H A Rey H A Rey Carl Hiaasen
		Beautiful Children's Classic : "Brown Bear, Brown Bear" introduces young kids to animal names and other words.
		The simple, repetitive text encourages even the youngest of readers to chime in and memorize the words...
	books.mysic.com /BrowseNode/2787++Animals (1152 words)

	Kids@Random \| Catalog \| Margaret Wise Brown
		A family favorite since 1956, Margaret Wise Brown’s simple yet playful tale is beautifully complemented by Garth Williams’s exquisite artwork.
		There is a little island in the ocean—and this book is about how it is on that little island, how the seasons and the storm and the day and night change it, how the lobsters and seals and gulls and everything else live on it, and what the kitten who comes...
		This quirky, breathtakingly illustrated story is one of Margaret Wise Brown’s...
	www.randomhouse.com /kids/catalog/author.pperl?authorid=3497 (640 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Runaway Bunny: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
		Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illustrator), Si Kahn (Narrator), Cathy Fink (Narrator)
		It's not often that written words and illustrations harmonize as beautifully as they do in the Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown with illustrations by Clement Hurd.
		I'm not surprised to learn that this book as never been out of print since it was originally published over forty years ago.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0898459958 (815 words)

	The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown, ISBN 0060207655 And Pictorial Encyclopedia of Historic Ornament by H. ...
		The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown, ISBN 0060207655 And Pictorial Encyclopedia of Historic Ornament by H. Dolmetsch, ISBN 0486428346
		The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown, ISBN 0060207655
		Clement Hurd redrew some of his pictures for this new edition of the profoundly comforting story of a bunnyand#146; s imaginary game of hide-and-seek and the lovingly steadfast mother who finds him every time.
	www.carloverr.com /margarets.htm (239 words)

	Margaret Wise Brown Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-07)
		This is a list of periodicals with Stories, Poems or Songs by MWB in them.
		Books, Essays and Articles About Margaret Wise Brown Here you will find books about Margaret Wise Brown or books including information about Margaret Wise Brown, a list of magazines or other publications that contain articles, essay or information about Margaret Wise Brown.
		When Margaret was an adult she had a Kerry Blue Terrier named Crispin's Crispian.
	www.btd-island.com /MWB.htm (192 words)

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