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A child's good morning book

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As the sun rises, birds, horses, rabbits, flowers, bugs, and finally children get up to start their day.

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Main Author: Brown, Margaret Wise, 1910-1952
Other Authors: Katz, Karen (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : HarperCollins, 2009.
Edition:Newly illustrated ed.
Subjects:
Morning > Juvenile fiction.
Animals > Juvenile fiction.
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Summary:As the sun rises, birds, horses, rabbits, flowers, bugs, and finally children get up to start their day.
Physical Description:1 v. (unpaged) : ill. ; 26 cm.
ISBN:9780061288647 (trade bdg)
0061288640 (trade bdg)
9780061288616 (lib. bdg.)
0061288616 (lib. bdg.)
Author Notes:Margaret Wise Brown was born on May 23, 1910 in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York, to Robert Brown, a Vice President at American Manufacturing Company and Maud Brown, a housewife. She attended school in Lausanne, Switzerland for three years, before attending Dana Hall in Wellesley, Massachusetts for two years. In 1928, she began taking classes at Hollis College in Virginia.

In 1935, Brown began working at the Bank Street Cooperative School for student teachers. Two years later, her writing career took off with the publication of "When the Wind Blows." Over the course of fourteen years, Brown wrote over one hundred picture books for children. Some of her best known titles include Goodnight Moon, Big Red Barn and Runaway Bunny.

Margaret Wise Brown died on November 13, 1952 of an embolism following an operation in Nice, France.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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