A Home in the Barn by Margaret Wise Brown, Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney “Here is the barn Hear the wind rattle Open the door And see all the cattle Outside in the cold Hear the wind rattle Stay in the barn Keep warm with the cattle. “The field mice came creeping out of a hole…
Category: Margaret Wise Brown
The Important Thing about Margaret Wise Brown by Mac Barnett – Picture Book Daily
The Important Thing about Margaret Wise Brown is the most beautiful and well-crafted biography that I have ever read. It is a masterpiece. Yet, I am hesitant to echo the publishing label on Amazon. I do not agree that this is a picture book for children between the ages of years 4 – 8. [that…
Picture Books by Margaret Wise Brown – Listed in the Order of Their Publication
Margaret Wise Brown was born in 1910, and she died from an embolism 42 years later. By 2022, she would have been 112-years-old. That puts things in perspective for me. Brown was born before World War I began, and she died slowly after World War II ended. She lived during the time of the Great…