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Little Pig’s Picnic, and Other Stories. Illustrated by the Walt Disney Studio. Boston: D. C. Heath & Co., 1939.
The Man in the Manhole and the Fix-It Men. Written as Juniper Sage, with Edith Thacher Hurd. Illustrated by Bill Ballantine. New York: W. R. Scott, 1946.
Mister Dog; The Dog Who Belonged to Himself. Illustrated by Garth Williams. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1952; London: Muller, 1954.
My World. Illustrated by Clement Hurd. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949.
Nibble Nibble: Poems for Children. Illustrated by Leonard Weisgard. New York: W. R. Scott, 1959.
Night and Day. Illustrated by Leonard Weisgard. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1942.
The Noisy Bird Book. Illustrated by Leonard Weisgard. New York: W. R. Scott, 1943.
The Noisy Book. Illustrated by Leonard Weisgard. New York: W. R. Scott, 1939.
The Noon Balloon. Illustrated by Leonard Weisgard. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952.
O, Said the Squirrel. Illustrated by Camilla Koffler (as Ylla). London: Harvill Press, 1950.
On Christmas Eve. Illustrated by Beni Montresor. New York: W. R. Scott, 1961; London: Collins, 1963.
Once Upon a Time in a Pigpen, and Three Other Stories. Illustrated by Ann Strugnell. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1980; London: Hutchinson, 1981.
The Peppermint Family. Illustrated by Clement Hurd. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1950; London: Hamish Hamilton, 1950.
The Polite Penguin. Illustrated by H. A. Rey. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1941.
The Poodle and the Sheep. Illustrated by Leonard Weisgard. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1941.
Pussy Willow. Illustrated by Leonard Weisgard. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1952.
A Pussycat’s Christmas. Illustrated by Helen Stone. New York: T. Y. Crowell, 1949.
The Quiet Noisy Book. Illustrated by Leonard Weisgard. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1950; London: Hamish Hamilton, 1950.
Red Light Green Light. Written as Golden MacDonald. Illustrated by Leonard Weisgard. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1944.
The Runaway Bunny. Illustrated by Clement Hurd. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1942.
The Sailor Dog. Illustrated by Garth Williams. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1953; London: Muller, 1954.
The Seashore Noisy Book. Illustrated by Leonard Weisgard. New York: W. R. Scott, 1941.
Seven Little Postmen. Written with Edith Thacher Hurd. Illustrated by Tibor Gergely. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1952.
Seven Stories about a Cat Named Sneakers. Illustrated by Jean Chariot. New York: W. R. Scott, 1955.
SHHhhhh . . . BANG: a whispering book. Illustrated by Robert de Veyrac. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1943.
Sleepy ABC. Illustrated by Esphyr Slobodkina. New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1953.
The Sleepy Little Lion. Illustrated by Camilla Koffler (as Ylla). New York: Harper & Brothers, 1947; London: Harvill Press, 1960.
The Steamroller. Illustrated by Evaline Ness. New York: Walker, 1974.
The Streamlined Pig. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1938.
The Summer Noisy Book. Illustrated by Leonard Weisgard. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1951.
They All Saw It. Illustrated by Camilla Koffler (as Ylla). New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1944.
Three Little Animals. Illustrated by Garth Williams. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956.
The Train to Timbuctoo. Illustrated by Art Seiden. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1951; London: Muller, 1952.
Two Little Gardeners. Written with Edith Thacher Hurd. Illustrated by Gertrude Elliott. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1951.
Two Little Miners. Written with Edith Thacher Hurd. Illustrated by Richard Scarry. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1949.
Two Little Trains. Illustrated by Jean Chariot. New York: W. R. Scott, 1949.
Wait Till the Moon Is Full. Illustrated by Garth Williams. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1948.
Wheel on the Chimney. Illustrated by Tibor Gergely. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1954.
When the Wind Blew. Illustrated by Rosalie Slocum. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1937.
Where Have You Been? Illustrated by Barbara Cooney. New York: T. Y. Crowell, 1952.
The Whispering Rabbit, and Other Stories. Illustrated by Garth Williams and Lillian Obligado. New York: Golden Press, 1965.
Whistle for the Train. Written as Golden MacDonald. Illustrated by Leonard Weisgard. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co., 1956.
Willie’s Adventures: Three Stories. Illustrated by Crockett Johnson. New York: W. R. Scott, 1954.
Willie’s Walk to Grandmama. Written with Rockbridge Campbell. Illustrated by Lucienne Bloch. New York: W. R. Scott, 1944.
The Winter Noisy Book. Illustrated by Charles G. Shaw. New York: W. R. Scott, 1947.
The Wonderful House. Illustrated by J. P. Miller. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1950; London: Muller, 1950.
Wonderful Story Book. Illustrated by J. P. Miller. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1948.
Young Kangaroo. Illustrated by Symeon Shimin. New York: W. R. Scott, 1955; Kingswood, Surrey: World’s Work, 1959.
ADAPTATIONS AND TRANSLATIONS
Brer Rabbit: Stories from Uncle Remus. Adapted from the text of Joel Chandler Harris. Illustrations based on those of A. B. Frost, redrawn for reproduction by Victor Dowling. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1941.
The Children’s Year. Adapted from the French of Y. Lacôte. Illustrated by Feodor Rojankovsky (as Rojan). New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1937.
The Comical Tragedy or Tragical Comedy of Punch & Judy. Adapted from the text of John Payne Collier. Illustrated by Leonard Weisgard. New York: W. R. Scott, 1940.
The Fables of La Fontaine. Translated from the French. Illustrated by André Hellé New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1940.
Homes in the Wilderness. Adapted from the journal of William Bradford and others. Illustrated by Mary Wilson Stewart. New York: W. R. Scott, 1939.
The Log of Christopher Columbus’ First Voyage to America in the Year 1492. Adapted from the abridgement of Bartolomé de las Casas. Illustrated by J. O. Cosgrave. New York: W. R. Scott, 1938.
STORIES AND POEMS (ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY BY MAGAZINE)
Good Housekeeping
“One Eye Open” (April 1948)
“Where Have You Been?” (May 1948)
“What Next in the Garden!”; “Whoopsie Daisy!”; “Said a Bug to a Bug—” (June 1948)
“The Big Red Barn” (July 1948)
“Sheep Don’t Count Sheep” (August 1948)
“Little Brown Tug” (September 1948)
“Pusscatkin and the Pumpkin” (October 1948)
“The Brave Little Weathervane” (November 1948)
“Santa Claus Upside Down” (December 1948)
“3 Fish Go Fishing” (January 1949)
“The Magic Car” (February 1949)
“Pussywillow” (March 1949)
“In the Sugar Egg” (April 1949)
“The Bear and the Butterfly” (June 1949)
“The Moon Balloon” (July 1949)
“Three Little Pigeons” (August 1949)
“Scarecrow School” (September 1949)
Jack and Jill
“How the Animals Took a Bath” (January 1939)
Pictures and Stories: A Story Magazine for Primary Children (Methodist Publishing House)
“The Shining Stones” (12 July 1942)
“The Birthday Present” (19 July 1942)
“A Surprise” (26 July 1942)
Primary Quarterly (Sunday School Board of Southern Baptist Convention)
“Missy’s Christmas Shopping” (March 1940)
Story Parade
“Never Worked and Never Will” (August 1937)
“One Night” (June 1939)
“Land Ahead” (September 1940)
“Cats from a Story Book, or Cat Medley” (November 1942)
“The Sad Sliced Onion” (March 1946)
“Two Little Miners,” written with Edith Thacher Hurd (July 1948)
“Boats” (September 1951)
COLLECTIONS AND ANTHOLOGIES
Another Here and Now Story Book. Ed. Lucy Sprague Mitchell. Illustrated by Rosalie Slocum. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1937.
Fun and Frolic. Ed. Barbara Nolan. Boston: D. C. Heath & Co., 1955.
Let’s Read a Story. Ed. Sidonie Matsner Gruenberg. Garden City, New York: Garden City, 1957.
Lost and Found. Boston: D. C. Heath & Co., 1955.
Poems to be Read to the Very Young. Ed. Josette Frank. Illustrated by Eloise Wilkin. New York: Random House, 1982.
Read Me Another Story. Ed. Child Study Association of America. New York: T. Y. Crowell, 1949.
Read Me a Story Book. Ed. Child Study Association of America. New York: T. Y. Crowell, 1947.
ARTICLES AND ESSAYS
“Creative Writing for Very Young Children,” Book of Knowledge Annual (1951): 77–81.
“Leonard Weisgard Wins the Caldecott Medal,” Publishers Weekly (5 July 1947): 40–42.
“Lucy Sprague Mitchell,” written with Mary Phelps, Horn Book (May 1937): 158–63.
“Stories to be Sung and Songs to be Told,” Book of Knowledge Annual (1952): 166–70.
“Writing for Children,” Hollins Alumnae Magazine (Winter 1949): 14.
NOTE TO THE 1999 EDITION: Since 1992, publishers have issued numerous reprints and re-illustrated editions of Margaret Wise Brown’s books. In addition, six previously unpublished works have appeared as of the fall of 1999: Under the Sun and the Moon, illustrated by Tom Leonard (Hyperion, 1993); Animals in the Snow, illustrated by Carol Schwartz (Hyperion, 1995); The Sleepy Men, illustrated by Robert Rayevsky (Hyperion, 1996); The Little Scarecrow Boy, illustrated by David Díaz (HarperCollins, 1998); Another Important Book, illustrated by Chris Raschka (HarperCollins, 1999); and Bunny’s Noisy Book, illustrated by Lisa McCue (Hyperion, 1999). More previously unpublished material is due to appear in the years to come.
Notes
INTRODUCTION
1. Margaret Wise Brown (hereafter abbreviated MWB), “Creative Writing for Very Young Children,” The Book of Knowledge 1951 Annual, ed. E. V. McLoughlin (New York and Toronto: The Grolier Society, 1951), 77.
2. Barbara Bader, American Picturebooks from Noah’s Ark to the Beast Within (New York: Macmillan, 1976), 252.
3. MWB, “Stories to Be Sung and Songs to Be Told,” The Book of Knowledge 1952 Annual, ed. E. V. McLoughlin (New York and Toronto: The Grolier Society, 1952), 166.
4. MWB, The Train to Timbuctoo, illustrated by Art Seiden (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1951); MWB, Mister Dog; The Dog Who Belonged to Himself, illustrated by Garth Williams (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1952).
5. Virginia Mathews, interview with author, Hamden, Conn., 18 July 1984; Ursula Nordstrom, interview with author, Southbury, Conn., 7 March 1981; Joseph D. Ryle, interview with author, New York, N.Y., 27 October 1983; Lucy Sprague Mitchell, “Margaret Wise Brown, 1910–1952,” 69 Bank Street (1953): 19; Bruce Bliven, Jr., interview with author, New York, N.Y., 7 August 1984; Colette Richardson, interview with author, New York, N.Y., 17 January 1983; Clement Hurd, “Remembering Margaret Wise Brown,” Horn Book (October 1983): 554.
CHAPTER ONE“A Wild and Private Place”
1. MWB, “Publishers’ Biographical Material,” written for Harper & Brothers, undated, Margaret Wise Brown Collection, Memorial and Library Association of Westerly, R.I. (collection hereafter cited as Westerly).
2. The Book of Knowledge (1952), 167.
3. The Book of Knowledge (1951), 78.
4. William L. Felter, Historic Green Point (Brooklyn, N.Y.: Green Point Savings Bank, 1918), 58.
5. Norma L. Peterson, Freedom and Franchise: The Political Career of B. Gratz Brown (Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press, 1956), preface.
6. Roberta Brown Rauch, interview with author, Jamaica, Vt., 20 September 1982.
7. See note on Brown family history prepared by Margretta Mason Brown (sister of B. Gratz Brown) at Liberty Hall, Frankfort, Ky. Among the notable Browns in America were: Rev. John Brown (1728–1803), who was born in Londonderry, Ireland of English and Scottish Presbyterian descent and became rector of Augusta Academy, near Staunton, Va. (later Washington and Lee University); Hon. John Brown (1757–1837), Revolutionary War veteran, United States representative and senator from Kentucky, president pro tem of the United States Senate; Judge Mason Brown (1799–1867), circuit judge and secretary of state of Kentucky, coauthor of Digest of the Statute Laws of Kentucky. B. Gratz Brown (1826–1885), Margaret’s paternal grandfather, was editor of the Missouri Democrat, colonel of a Missouri volunteer regiment during the early days of the Civil War, United States senator from Missouri (1863–67), governor of Missouri (1871—73), and vice presidential candidate on the Liberal Republican and Democratic tickets headed by Horace Greeley (1872).
8. Maude Johnson’s student records are in the archives of the Fishburn Library, Hollins College (archives hereafter cited as Fishburn).
9. MWB, handwritten verses on back of an Only House envelope, collection of James Stillman Rockefeller, Jr. (collection hereafter cited as Rockefeller).
10. Peter J. Schmitt, Back to Nature: The Arcadian Myth in Urban America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1969), 20–32, 125–40.
11. Jane Thurston Shepard to author, 28 April 1986.
12. Roberta Brown Rauch, 20 September 1982.
13. Roberta Brown Rauch, telephone interview with author, 14 March 1987.
14. MWB, “Writing for Children,” Hollins Alumnae Magazine (Winter 1949): 1.
15. Roberta Brown Rauch, 20 September 1982.
16. The Book of Knowledge (1951), 79.
17. Jane Thurston Shepard, interview with author, San Diego, Calif., 9 July 1987.
18. B. Gratz Brown, Jr., interview with author, Jamaica, Vt., 20 September 1982.
19. Roberta Brown Rauch, 20 September 1982.
20. MWB, “Publishers’ Biographical Material,” Westerly.
21. Roberta Brown Rauch, 20 September 1982.
22. Ibid.
23. Roberta Brown Rauch, telephone interview with author, 31 May 1987.
24. Margaret Wise Brown, “The Dead Bird,” The Fish With the Deep Sea Smile (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1938), 62–63. The story was adapted to the picture book format as The Dead Bird, illustrated by Remy Charlip (New York: Scott, 1958).
25. MWB, “Discovery,” unpublished typescript, undated, Rockefeller.
26. MWB, Little Fur Family, illustrated by Garth Williams (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1946).
27. Roberta Brown Rauch, telephone interview with author, 19 January 1985.
28. MWB, The Little Fir Tree, illustrated by Barbara Cooney (New York: Crowell, 1954).
29. MWB, The Golden Sleepy Book, illustrated by Garth Williams (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1948).
30. Roberta Brown Rauch, 14 March 1987.
31. Roberta Brown Rauch, telephone interviews with author, 28 July 1984, 15 February 1987.
32. Winifred Lowry Post, Purpose and Personality: The Story of Dana Hall (Wellesley, Mass.: Dana Hall School, 1978), 32.
33. Dorothy R. Luke, interview with author, New York, N.Y., 22 December 1982.
34. Dana Hall Class of 1928 yearbook (Wellesley, Mass.: Dana Hall School, 1928), 106.
35. MWB’s application, dated 2 April 1928, Fishburn.
36. Marguerite C. Hearsey, “Columns,” Spinster (Hollins, Va.: Hollins College, 1932), 17. Marguerite Capen Hearsey (1892–1990) received her B.A. from Hollins College, her M.A. from Radcliffe, and her Ph.D. from Yale, where she was a Sterling Fellow. After teaching English at Bryn Mawr and Wellesley, she joined Hollins College’s faculty in 1929, where she later served as acting dean (1934–35). In 1936, she became the principal of Abbot Academy, Andover, Mass., a girls’ preparatory school which has since merged with Phillips Academy. She remained in that pos
t until 1955.
37. Jane D. Sutherland, telephone interview with author, 9 July 1984.
38. Margaret P. Scott, telephone interview with author, 5 July 1984.
39. “Dr. McBride Delivers Interesting Lectures,” Hollins Student Life, 16 March 1929.
40. MWB’s handwritten copy of Margretta Mason Brown’s note on Brown family history is in collection of Roberta Brown Rauch.
41. “Hollins ‘Listens In’ on Edison Golden Jubilee,” Hollins Student Life, 26 October 1929.
42. “Mr. Neibuhr Gives Series of Lectures at Hollins,” Hollins Student Life, 9 November 1929.
43. “Hollins Alumna Speaks on ‘The Modern Girl,’” Hollins Student Life, 23 November 1929.
44. MWB became a frequent contributor to the class notes section of the Hollins Alumnae Quarterly, renamed the Hollins Alumnae Magazine in 1946.
45. Julia Lamar Parish to author, 30 June 1983.
46. Marjorie Forte, “A Review of ‘The Lamp and the Bell,’” Hollins Student Life, 13 April 1929.
47. “Christmas Pageant Presented Sunday,” Hollins Student Life, 17 December 1930.
48. Martha Huguley Naftel to author, undated (postmarked 22 July 1982); 12 August 1982; 30 August 1982.
49. Martha Huguley Naftel, calendar, June 1931, collection of James A. Naftel.
50. MWB to Fanona Knox, undated (summer 1931), Fishburn.
51. MWB to M. Estes Cocke, undated (summer 1931), Fishburn.
52. MWB, “Chaucerian Kindliness,” Cargoes (February 1932): 60.
53. MWB to Marguerite C. Hearsey, inscription in a copy of When the Wind Blew, Fishburn.
54. Marguerite C. Hearsey, telephone interview with author, 18 June 1984.
55. MWB to Martha Huguley (telegram), 27 March 1932, collection of James A. Naftel.
56. Martha Huguley Naftel to author, 30 August 1982.
57. “Senior Plans for Next Year,” Hollins Student Life, 28 May 1932.
CHAPTER TWO New York Here and Now
1. Martha Huguley Naftel to author, 30 August 1982.
2. MWB to Marguerite C. Hearsey, undated (summer 1934), Letter 3, Fishburn.
3. MWB, “The Meeting,” unpublished manuscript, undated, Rockefeller.
4. Leonard Weisgard, interviews with author, Traelløse, Denmark, 26 October–5 November 1982.
5. MWB, “Running/Running to Hounds,” unpublished typescript, undated, Westerly.