Margaret Wise Brown

Margaret Wise Brown was an American children's author best known for Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny. Count to 10 with a Mouse, Goodnight Little One, The Diggers, The Golden Egg Book, and her many picture books show her gift for rhythm, repetition, tenderness, and attention to the small objects and rituals of early childhood.

For English-language readers, Brown is central to picture-book history because she understood how young children hear language and find comfort in patterns. Her books often turn bedtime, animals, rooms, colors, and ordinary things into gentle imaginative experiences. Parents, teachers, librarians, and children interested in classic picture books, bedtime reading, lyrical prose, and early childhood literature will find an enduring author.