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Margaret Wise Brown

  • “Goodnight stars / Goodnight air / Goodnight noises everywhere.”

  • “... there seem to be times of reception and times of creation and it is perhaps difficult not to confuse the two.”

    • Margaret Wise Brown,
    • in Leonard S. Marcus, Margaret Wise Brown: Awakened by the Moon ()

  • “There is a loving way with words and an unloving way. And it is only with the loving way that the simplicity of language becomes beautiful.”

    • Margaret Wise Brown,
    • in Leonard S. Marcus, Margaret Wise Brown: Awakened by the Moon ()

  • “We speak naturally but spend all our lives trying to write naturally.”

    • Margaret Wise Brown,
    • in Leonard S. Marcus, Margaret Wise Brown: Awakened by the Moon ()

  • “A child's own story is a dream, but a good story is a dream that is true for more than one child.”

    • Margaret Wise Brown,
    • in Leonard S. Marcus, Margaret Wise Brown: Awakened by the Moon ()

Margaret Wise Brown, U.S. children's writer, Newbery winner

(1910 - 1952)