Margaret Wise Brown
May 23, 1910 – November 13, 1952
276 works in the book catalog catalog
Biography
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.
Also published as: Golden MacDonald, Juniper Sage, Timothy Hay, Margaret Wise Brown Joel Chandler Harris, margaret wise brown
Most-read books
Goodnight Moon
4.1 · 1947 · 682 want to read
The Runaway Bunny
4.1 · 1942 · 96 want to read
I like bugs
5 · 1999 · 58 want to read
Big Red Barn
3 · 1956 · 54 want to read
The Little Island
4.3 · 1946 · 41 want to read
My world
2.8 · 1949 · 36 want to read
The color kittens
3.7 · 1949 · 27 want to read
A child's good night book
4.7 · 1943 · 22 want to read
Home for a Bunny
5 · 1956 · 30 want to read
The Important Book
5 · 1949 · 22 want to read
The Sailor Dog
5 · 1953 · 21 want to read
The Dead Bird
3.8 · 1958 · 23 want to read
Little Fur Family
4.5 · 1946 · 17 want to read
A Pussycat's Christmas
4.3 · 1949 · 19 want to read
On Christmas Eve
4 · 1938 · 17 want to read
The Little Scarecrow Boy
4 · 1998 · 16 want to read
The golden egg book
1947 · 9 want to read
Where have you been?
5 · 1952 · 15 want to read
Sneakers, the seaside cat
5 · 2003 · 12 want to read
Pussy Willow
1951 · 12 want to read
Nibble nibble
1959 · 14 want to read
The Little Fir Tree
1954 · 9 want to read
Christmas in the Barn
4 · 1952 · 8 want to read
Wait Till the Moon Is Full
1948 · 10 want to read