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"Two little trains head west, traveling through hills and mountains and over rivers and plains."--

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Main Author: Brown, Margaret Wise, 1910-1952 (Author)
Other Authors: Pizzoli, Greg (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020]
Edition:Newly illustrated edition.
Subjects:
Railroad trains > Juvenile fiction.
Picture books.
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Summary:"Two little trains head west, traveling through hills and mountains and over rivers and plains."--
Item Description:Text originally published: New York, Young Scott Books, ©1949.
Physical Description:1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Audience:Ages 4-8.
ISBN:9780062676511
0062676512
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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