5 Quotes & Sayings By Margaret Wise Brown

Margaret Wise Brown was born in Newton, Massachusetts on November 29, 1912. She is best known as the author of the "Goodnight Moon" children's book and as a Caldecott Medal winner (picture book with stripes and dots). She wrote many other book for children under the pen name M.A. Bright Read more

Her first picture book, Goodnight Moon, was published in 1947. The book has been translated into twenty languages and is considered one of the best-selling children's books of all time (more than 25 million copies sold).

In the great green room, there was a telephone And...
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In the great green room, there was a telephone And a red balloon And a picture of a cat jumping over the moon... Margaret Wise Brown
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Nights and days came and passedand summer and winterand the sun and the windand the rain.and it was good to be a little islanda part of the worldand a world of its ownall surrounded by the bright blue sea. Margaret Wise Brown
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I don't think I'm essentially interested in children's books. I'm interested in writing, and in pictures. I'm interested in people and in children because they are people. Margaret Wise Brown
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In this modern world where activity is stressed almost to the point of mania, quietness as a childhood need is too often overlooked. Yet a child's need for quietness is the same today as it has always been--it may even be greater--for quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own. Margaret Wise Brown