![]() ![]() ![]() What she produced was innovative and fresh, making her one of the driving forces behind the mid-twentieth century revolution in children’s book publishing - not only as a writer, but as an editor. The word “prolific” seems almost inadequate to describe Margaret Wise Brown’s output. She had more than one hundred books published during her lifetime and left behind a trove of unpublished works found after her death. Margaret was an imaginative child who loved adventure and the outdoors. Margaret grew up in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn, the middle of three children whose well-to-do parents made no secret of their unhappy marriage. ![]() Margaret Wise Brown (– November 13, 1952) was a prolific American author and editor of children’s books, best known for Goodnight Moon (1947) and The Runaway Bunny (1942). ![]()
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