Margaret Wise Brown Books In Order
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The Noisy Book | (1939) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Noisy Book Board Book | (1939) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Country Noisy Book | (1940) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Seashore Noisy Book | (1941) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Indoor Noisy Book | (1942) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Winter Noisy Book | (1947) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Quiet Noisy Book | (1950) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Quiet Noisy Book Board Book | (1950) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Summer Noisy Book | (1951) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bunny's Noisy Book | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Noisy Book Treasury | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Over the Moon Books
The Runaway Bunny | (1942) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Goodnight Moon | (1947) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
My World | (1949) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Picture Books
The Ugly Duckling | (1843) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
When the Wind Blew | (1937) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
I Like Bugs | (1938) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Fierce Yellow Pumpkin | (1938) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Fish with the Deep Sea Smile | (1938) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Little Donkey Close Your Eyes | (1938) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Little Fireman | (1938) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Steam Roller | (1938) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dead Bird | (1938) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Good Little Bad Little Pig! | (1938) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bumble Bugs and Elephants | (1938) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Streamlined Pig | (1938) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Little Pig's Picnic | (1939) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Polite Penguin | (1941) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Don't Frighten The Lion | (1942) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Child's Good Night Book | (1943) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Little Chicken | (1943) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Red Light, Green Light | (1944) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Big Fur Secret | (1944) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
They All Saw It | (1944) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Little Fisherman | (1945) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The House of a Hundred Windows | (1945) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Little Lost Lamb | (1945) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Little Island | (1946) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Little Fur Family | (1946) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Golden Egg Book | (1947) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Shy Little Horse | (1947) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Wait Till the Moon Is Full | (1948) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Sleepy Book | (1948) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Little Cowboy | (1948) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Five Little Firemen | (1948) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Little Farmer | (1948) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Color Kittens | (1949) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Two Little Trains | (1949) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Pussycat's Christmas | (1949) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Important Book | (1949) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Two Little Miners | (1949) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Wonderful House | (1950) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dream Book | (1950) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Little Fat Policeman | (1950) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dark Wood of the Golden Birds | (1950) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Peppermint Family | (1950) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Pussy Willow | (1951) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Train to Timbuctoo | (1951) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Two Little Gardeners | (1951) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fox Eyes | (1951) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Christmas in the Barn | (1952) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Child's Good Morning Book | (1952) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Where Have You Been? | (1952) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Noon Balloon | (1952) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Doctor Squash the Doll Doctor | (1952) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mister Dog | (1952) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Sailor Dog | (1953) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Golden Bunny | (1953) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Duck | (1953) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Hidden House | (1953) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Little Fir Tree | (1954) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Friendly Book | (1954) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
I Like Stars | (1954) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Wheel on the Chimney | (1954) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Things I Like | (1954) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sailor Boy Jig | (1954) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Young Kangaroo | (1955) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Little Brass Band | (1955) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Big Red Barn | (1956) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Home for a Bunny | (1956) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Three Little Animals | (1956) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nibble Nibble | (1959) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Diggers | (1960) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
On Christmas Eve | (1961) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Four Fur Feet | (1961) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Goodnight Little One | (1961) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Whispering Rabbit | (1965) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Little Indian | (1968) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Shhhhhh Bang | (1969) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Seven Little Postmen | (1971) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Sleepy Little Lion | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Little Pussycat | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Once Upon a Time in a Pigpen | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sneakers, the Seaside Cat | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Baby Animals | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Golden Birthday Book | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
David's Little Indian | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Grasshopper and the Ants | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sleepy ABC | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Day the First Walnut Fell | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Three Orphan Kittens | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Animals in the Snow | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Sleepy Men | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Baby's First Library | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Little Scarecrow Boy | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Another Important Book | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bumble Bee | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Child is Born | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Dirty Little Boy | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Love Song Of Summer | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Love Song Of Winter | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Love Song Of Spring | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mouse of My Heart | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Love Songs of the Little Bear | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Baby's Gift | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Love Song of Autumn | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
My World Of Color | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Songs from the Earth | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Big & Little | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Robin's Room | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sheep Don't Count Sheep | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Goodnight Bear | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Goodnight Bunny | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Flying Mouse | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Fathers Are Coming Home | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Moon Shines Down | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
On Christmas Day | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sleep Little Angel | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Count To 10 With A Mouse | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sleep Tight, Sleepy Bears | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Around the World We Go! | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sunshine and Snowballs | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Song for All Seasons | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Away in My Airplane | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
All the Families | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Wish Upon a Dream | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
I Like Fish | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Jingle Paws | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Find It Book | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
All the Little Fathers | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Happy Little Rabbit | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Tickly Spider | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
North, South, East, West | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Little Bunnies | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Margaret Wise Brown's Manners | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Good Day, Good Night | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Walk with Me | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Be Brave, Little Tiger! | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Cloud Song | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Home in the Barn | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nursery Rhyme Search and Find | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Tickly Spider | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Long Time that I've Loved You | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
100 First Words | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Publication Order of Collections
Brer Rabbit | (1941) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Wonderful Storybook | (1948) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Willie's Adventures | (1954) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Looking Towards Light | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Under the Sun and the Moon | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Baby Love Library | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sleepy Bunnies | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Give Yourself to the Rain | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Goodnight Songs | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bedtime Stories | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Celebration of the Seasons: Goodnight Songs | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Margaret Wise Brown 5-Minute Stories | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Goodnight Songs Treasury of Bedtime Poems | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Margaret Wise Brown was one of the most prolific children’s fiction authors and editor of childrens works. She is best known as the author of the 1942 published “The Runaway Bunny” and the 1947 published “Goodnight Moon.”
The author was born and brought up in Brooklyn, in the small suburb of Greenpoint. She was the child of Robert Bruce Brown and Maude Margaret who were very well off. Growing up, her parents did not have a great marriage and she spent much of her childhood in boarding school in Europe.
Despite the many struggles her parents had, Margaret never let it get to her as she spent much of her time outdoors, given that she was a very adventurous and imaginative child.
She would later on become one of the most prolific authors in children’s fiction with more than 100 titles to her name at the time of her death. She also left behind troves of unpublished collections and picture books that were unearthed following her death.
Over her long career, she was known for producing fresh and innovative works that would make her a driving force behind what was the revolution in children’s fiction not only as an editor, but also as an author.
Brown graduated with a bachelor’s degree from the Virginia based Hollins college in 1932. She then moved to New York City where she got a job teaching students at Bank Street School.
But writing was something she always wanted to do and in no time at all she started penning children’s fiction. She wanted to come up with stories that portrayed boys as equal to boys and rose above bland sentimentality.
Margaret was a dawdler and dreamer in the best sense of the word and often spent a lot of time researching her plots, and subjects. Nothing is ever too great to meticulously work on from the clouds in the sky to the tiny flowers on the ground.
All she wanted to do was explore the sense of awe a child always has discovering the world around them.
In 1937, she published When the Wind Blew her debut novel under Harper & Bros. The work was an instant success and set the stage for what would become a very successful career.
In her 2016 published biography, Amy Gray described Margaret Wise Brown as an incredibly talented, quirky and clever author. She was known for living life with passion as she could afford a luxurious life given her huge royalties and many troubled and long affairs with both women and men.
Even though Margaret Wise Brown has been dead more than a century, her stories and books still remain very popular among kids of different ages. Her novels have been known for how they often incorporated animals as the lead characters in the stories.
Margaret also liked to open novels full of rhythm. She would occasionally include hard words into her poems and stories just to make her audience think much harder when they consumed the works.
She used to write all the time and the inheritors of her estate found many poems and story ideas in her belongings. She often said that she got many of her story ideas in dreams and often had to dash out of bed to go write them up, so that she would not forget them.
Margaret always tried to pen her stories in the voice of children and also trained illustrators to illustrate just the way a child would see things.
The author died in France of a bursting appendix in 1952.
Margaret Wise Brown’s novel “The Runaway Bunny” is the story of a little rabbit who informs his mother that he would run away. He becomes a circus acrobat, a fish, a sailboat, a rock on a mountain, a bird, a hidden garden crocus and then a boy. Ultimately, he decides he is better off just being a rabbit.
His mother appears as a trapeze walker, a fisherman, a cloud, a mountain climber, a tree, a gardener and ultimately just a mother bunny.
The work comes with some beautiful illustrations of boy bunny and his mother, the latter who is portrayed as a helicopter parent who stifles her son.
It makes for quite an amusing story as the little bunny tries everything to get out from under his mother’s thumb but it does seem as if there is no escaping it.
However, another perspective is that the mother bunny is trying to be there for her child no matter what.
The scenes are creatively illustrated with the boy rabbit becoming all manner of things. It is an imaginative and peaceful read that makes for a beautiful bedtime story for kids.
“Goodnight Moon” by Margaret Wise Brown is a classic in which one small bunny says goodnight to all the pets and objects in his room. He has the habit of telling the audience of the many things he spots around his room, just as he is about to sleep.
Clement Hurd makes some creative and beautiful illustrations as he paints the little bunny’s room in some brightly colored paint. The carpet is red and the walls are green but you do not get the Christmasy feeling you usually would.
They are also highly creative images as they include a painting of three bears colored in white and black among other colorful animals in the bunny’s room.
As the story progresses, Clement Hurd progressively makes the colors darker to illustrate that the little bunny is finally preparing to go to sleep and is saying goodnight to everyone and everything in his room.
This is a true classic that would make for an excellent read to teach children about different objects in the home and also as a bedtime story.
Margaret Wise Brown’s novel “My World” is the companion piece to the novel “Goodnight Moon.” It introduced a cryptic book that a child has been forbidden from beholding. It turns out that it is full of blank pages which Mother and Child stare at in grim silence.
Later on the child takes out his toy car but it does not go far because he is trying to ride it over his teddy bear.
The work ends with a deliberately cryptic question that echoes the jumbled and foggy nature of the work.