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The fierce Yellow pumpkin

This long-lost treasure from the author of "Goodnight Moon" has never before been published. Who better to bring it to life than Caldecott Medalist Richard Egielski? Full color.

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Main Author:	Brown, Margaret Wise, 1910-1952
Other Authors:	Egielski, Richard
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : HarperCollins, 2006.
Subjects:	Pumpkin > Juvenile fiction. Blind > Books and reading > Juvenile fiction. Jack-o-lanterns > Juvenile fiction.
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Summary:	This long-lost treasure from the author of "Goodnight Moon" has never before been published. Who better to bring it to life than Caldecott Medalist Richard Egielski? Full color. A little pumpkin dreams of the day when he will be a big, fierce, yellow pumpkin who frightens away the field mice as the scarecrow does.
Physical Description:	1 v. (unpaged)
ISBN:	9780064435345 0064435342
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)