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She helped pioneer and popularized the here and now style of children’s books.

Margaret Wise Brown

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Goodnight Moonwas banned by the New York Public Library.

Her collaboration with Clement Hurd is one of her many important relationships.

Rockefeller

She wrote using severalnoms de plume.

Margaret Wise Brown Book

Excerpt from “Big Red Barn,” 1954 (Illustrated by Felicia Bond) (Photo:Wikimedia Commons[Public Domain])

Over 70 unpublished manuscripts were found hidden in a hayloft decades after her death.

New York Public Library

The lion statues at the New York Public Library,1954 (Photo:Wikimedia Commons[Public Domain])

Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny

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Margaret Wise Brown Portrait

Margaret Wise Brown by Consuelo Kanaga (Photo:Wikimedia Commons[Public Domain])

Margaret Wise Brown Photo

Margaret Wise Brown by Consuelo Kanaga (Photo:Wikimedia Commons[Public Domain])