She seemed to understand the sensibilities of children, though she never had her own. It is less known that in addition to being an author, Margaret was a highly influential children’s book editor.Best known for Good Night Moon and The Runaway Bunny, she is “one of the central figures of a period now considered the golden age of the American picture book.”.Margaret wasn’t herself an illustrator, but worked with some of the most prominent children’s book illustrators of the time, including Clement Hurd and Leonard Weisgard.She began her working life as a teacher at the progressive Bank Street School in New York City, where she helped shape curriculum.Margaret Wise Brown was incredibly prolific, with more than one hundred children’s books published during her lifetime and a trove of unpublished works found after her death.What she produced was innovative and fresh, making her one of the driving forces behind the mid-twentieth century revolution in children’s book publishing - not only as a writer, but as an editor. The word “prolific” seems almost inadequate to describe Margaret Wise Brown’s output. She had more than one hundred books published during her lifetime and left behind a trove of unpublished works found after her death. Margaret was an imaginative child who loved adventure and the outdoors.
Margaret grew up in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn, the middle of three children whose well-to-do parents made no secret of their unhappy marriage. Margaret Wise Brown (– November 13, 1952) was a prolific American author and editor of children’s books, best known for Goodnight Moon (1947) and The Runaway Bunny (1942).
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