Margaret Wise Brown

A little bunny counts and bids goodnight to all the objects in his room before falling asleep.

A little rabbit who wants to run away tells his mother how he will escape, but she is always right behind him.

Goodnight to each of the objects in the great green room: the chairs, a comb, and the air.

The fur child investigates other creatures in the wild woods near his home, visits his grandfather, and goes home at dark for supper and a bedtime song with his parents.

A little pumpkin dreams of the day when he will be a big, fierce, yellow pumpkin who frightens away the field mice as the scarecrow does.

At the start of spring, a rabbit searches across the countryside for a home of his own.

Peter's wish comes true when he gets a little pet pig who is sometimes good and sometimes bad.

Rhyming verses describe things that are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, brown, black, gray, white, and pink.

Summary, Illustrates the concept of size by comparing different animals, from the smallest visible animals to the largest.

When a little boy tries to get clean the way different animals do, he only gets dirtier.

A collection of stories and poems, arranged in the categories "Adventure," "Big and Little," "Bravery," "Love and Friendship," "Happiness," "Belonging," "For a Rainy Day," "Nonsense," "Colors," and "Nature."

A little bunny listens to noises all around him and then makes some of his own.

In brief rhyming text, lists all the types of insects the narrator likes.

LOOK INSIDE and discover all the important things about being Six, Five, Four, Three, One, Two and YOU. A never-before-published picture book by Margaret Wise Brown, the beloved author of GOODNIGHT MOON. Pictures by Caldecott Honor recipient Chris Raschka.

Early one morning, a little scarecrow whose father warns him that he is not fierce enough to frighten a crow goes out into the cornfield alone.

Brief descriptions in rhyme of the daytime and evening activitites of different animals.

A simple poem describing all kinds of stars that appear in the night sky. ''I like stars. Blue stars. Far stars. Shooting stars. I like stars!'' Poem originally pub. in The Friendly Book, 1954. Margaret Wise Brown wrote hundreds of books and stories during her life, but she is best known for Goodnight Moon and Runaway Bunny. Even though she died over 45 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.

Twenty-five poems, about insects, fish, animals, birds, and the seasons.

As the day comes to a close, various animals and a small child wind down their activities and go to sleep.