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Christmas in the barn

Caldecott Honor artist Diane Goode reillustrates 'Christmas in the Barn', an adaptation of the Nativity story by revered children's book legend Margaret Wise Brown.

Main Author: Brown, Margaret Wise, 1910-1952.
Other Authors: Goode, Diane.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : HarperCollins, 2007.
Subjects:
Jesus Christ > Nativity > Juvenile fiction.
Stories in rhyme.
Christmas fiction > Juvenile.
Summary: Caldecott Honor artist Diane Goode reillustrates 'Christmas in the Barn', an adaptation of the Nativity story by revered children's book legend Margaret Wise Brown.
Rhyming text relating the birth of Jesus Christ in a barn among farm animals.
Physical Description: 1 volume (unpaged)
Audience: Ages 4-8.
ISBN: 9780060526368
006052636X
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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