American author of children's picture books, including the Noisy Book series (1939) and Goodnight Moon (1947).
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American author of children's picture books, including the Noisy Book series (1939) and Goodnight Moon (1947).
| 1947 | Goodnight Moon. In one of the most beloved children's bedtime stories, a rabbit bids good night to various objects in its cozy room. Brown was the author of more than one hundred children's books, who critic Barbara Bader called "the first author of picturebooks to be recognized in her own right," and the first "to make the writing of picturebooks an art." |
Margaret Wise Brown (23 May 1910 – 13 November 1952) was a prolific American author of children's literature, which include Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny, both illustrated by Clement Hurd.
Brown was born in Pomfret, CT, and she attended boarding school in 1923 in Woodstock while her parents were in Canterbury. She later attended Dana Hall in 1926, where she did well in athletics. After graduation at Dana Hall in 1928, Brown went on to Hollins College in Roanoke, Virginia.
Following graduation at Hollins College in 1932, Brown worked in teaching, and also studied art. It was while working at the Bank Street Experimental School in New York City that she started writing books for children. Her first book was When the Wind Blew. Brown went on to develop her Here and Now stories, and later the Noisy Book series while employed as editor at William R. Scott Publishing Company. In 1947, Brown wrote The Little Island under the pseudonym Golden MacDonald (illustrated by Leonard Weisgard), which won the Caldecott Medal. In the early 1950s, she wrote several books for the Little Golden Books series including The Color Kittens, Mister Dog and Sailor Dog.
In 1952 Brown met James Stillman Rockefeller Jr. at a party, and he later proposed to her. On 13th November of that year while on a book tour in Nice, France, Brown suffered from appendicitis and was taken to a hospital where she died of complications. She was 42 years old at the time of her death.
Brown bequeathed the royalties to many of her books including Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny to
Albert Clarke, the son of a neighbor who was nine years old when she died. In 2000, reporter
In March of 2006, Sony BMG released The Runaway Bunny: A Concert piece for Violin, Reader and Orchestra. Based on Ms. Brown's book, it is narrated by Brooke Shields. The violin solo is performed by Ittai Shapira and Barry Wordsworth conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. The piece was composed by Glen Roven.
Many of Brown's books have been rereleased with new illustrations decades after their original publication. Many more of her books are still in print with the original illustrations. Her books have been translated into several languages and biographies on Brown for children have been written by Leonard S. Marcus (Harper Paperbacks, 1999) and Jill C. Wheeler (Checkerboard Books, 2006).
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