Two green-eyed kittens who slosh around great big buckets of paint making all kinds of messes - what more appealing heroes could we ask for? The color kittens have only yellow, red, and blue paint, but what they really want is some green. So the kittens mix their paints, and Margaret Wise Brown mixes her lovely prose with a touch of poetry in order to teach young children ...
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Another adorable bunny tale from Margaret Wise Brown, this one from her popular "Noisy" book series. We tag along for a day in the life of an exceptionally cute rabbit and listen to the sounds of his world, including all the sounds he likes to make. The text asks questions of its young readers, encouraging them to recognize sounds and also join in the fun by making a few themselves. ...
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With her well-known interest in bunnies and their doings, it is only fitting that Margaret Wise Brown (author of Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny) should have given us one of the most delightful Easter-themed books available. The Golden Egg Book tells of a lonely little bunny who comes across a speckled egg and wonders what could be inside. A boy? Another bunny? An elephant? A ...
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Devotees of Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny are aware of Margaret Wise Brown's special interest in all things bunnyish. In this sweet tale, a bunny sets off in springtime to find a home of his own. Along the way, he explores a favorite preschool theme: where all the animals of the forest live. The illustrations are by Garth Williams (of Charlotte's Web and Little House on the Prairie fame), ...
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The protagonist of this 1947 Caldecott Medal winner is a little island, and all of its plants and creatures: spiders and lobsters, seagulls, kingfishers, and seals. Brown's graceful prose takes the island and its inhabitants through the seasons. It was a world she knew well, from her own summers spent in a cabin on an island in Maine. When a small black cat arrives with its owners by sailboat in ...
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Margaret Wise Brown tended to ground her stories in what early education specialists of her time called the "here and now." Her stories reveal the enchantment of the everyday world. But now and then she took a flight of fancy, and here is one of them. This whimsical book returns to the classic theme of "who lives where," and the author diligently tells us that turtles live in their shells, ...
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This bedtime favorite is as beautiful a love poem as has ever been written. The story's imaginary game of hide-and-seek between a little bunny and his mother appeals to children's dreams of running away and even stronger desire always to be found. Its gentle tempo and dream-like images have sent countless little ones off to sleep with the lulling assurance that their very own mother bunny will be ...
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This recent release adapts one of Brown's manuscripts to wonderful effect. Cat lovers young and old will be especially entranced by this tale of a kitty's discovery of the seashore. Anyone who has ever seen a cat at the beach knows that it is not most felines' idea of an ideal environment. The wet surf, the sticky sand! And yet, there are all those fascinating creatures to play with too ...
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Sometimes we get a bit frazzled when the wave of invitations splashes onto our family's calendar, but ... Read more >