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Margaret Wise Brown quotes

Ocupation: Writer

Life: May 23, 1910 - November 13, 1952

Birthday: May 23

Death: November 13

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In this modern world where activity is stressed almost to the point of mania, quietness as a childhood need is too often overlooked. Yet a child's need for quietness is the same today as it has always been--it may even be greater--for quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own.

Topics: Song, Children, Childhood, Children's Literature, Children Literature

A good picture book can almost be whistled. ... All have their own melodies behind the storytelling.

Topics: Book, Storytelling, Melody, Picture Books

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

Topics: Dream, Children, Stories

Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere.

source: - "Goodnight Moon". Book by Margaret Wise Brown, www.theguardian.com. 1947.

Topics: Stars, Air, Noise

Everything that anyone would ever look for is usually where they find it.

Topics: Looks

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.

Topics: Beautiful, Simplicity, Way

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

Topics: Creativity, Two, Creation, Reception

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

Topics: Writing, Trying, Speak

In the great green room, there was a telephone And a red balloon And a picture of a cat jumping over the moon...

Topics: Cat, Moon, Jumping, Children Literature

Goodnight nobody, goodnight mush

I don't think I'm essentially interested in children's books. I'm interested in writing, and in pictures. I'm interested in people and in children because they are people.

Topics: Children, Book, Writing, Children's Literature

I won't let anybody get away with anything just because he is little.

Topics: Littles, Get Away

I wish I didn't have ever to sign my long name on the cover of a book, and I wish I could write a story that would seem absolutely true to the child who hears it and to myself.

Topics: Children, Book, Writing

I like dogs Big dogs Little dogs Fat dogs Doggy dogs Old dogs Puppy dogs I like dogs A dog that is barking over the hill A dog that is dreaming very still A dog that is running wherever he will I like dogs.

Topics: Dream, Running, Dog, Old Dog, Over The Hill

Once there was a little bunny who wanted to run away. So he said to his mother, "I am running away". "If you run away", said his mother, "I will run after you. For you are my little bunny".

source: - Margaret Wise Brown (1972). “The Runaway Bunny”

Topics: Mother, Running, Bunnies

When the groundhog casts his shadow And the small birds sing And the pussywillows happen And the sun shines warm And when the peepers peep Then it is Spring

source: - Margaret Wise Brown (1997). “Pussy Willow”, Golden Books

Topics: Spring, Shining, Bird, Groundhogs

nights and days came and passed and summer and winter and the sun and the wind and the rain. and it was good to be a little island a part of the world and a world of its own all surrounded by the bright blue sea.

source: - Golden MacDonald, Margaret Wise Brown (1946). “The little island”, Doubleday Books for Young Readers

Topics: Summer, Rain, Winter, Summer And Winter, Blue Sea

I won’t let anybody get away with anything just because he is little.

source: - "Do Childish People Write Better Children's Books?" by Katie Roiphe, www.slate.com. March 29, 2012.

Topics: Littles, Get Away

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