false 216330 <![CDATA[The Important Book]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172782969m/216330.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172782969s/216330.jpg The Important Book--is that you let your child tell you what is important about the sun and the moon and the wind and the rain and a bug and a bee and a chair and a table and a pencil and a bear and a rainbow and a cat (if he wants to).For the important thing about The Important Book is that the book goes on long after it is closed.What is most important about many familiar things—like rain and wind, apples and daisies—is suggested in rhythmic words and vivid pictures. ‘A perfect book . . . the text establishes a word game which tiny children will accept with glee.’ —K.

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]]> 1989 4 0 false Mon Sep 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 20:34:37 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 20:42:42 -0700 2009 more...]]> 27504296 1167376 216330 0064432270 9780064432276 24 <![CDATA[The Important Book]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172782969m/216330.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172782969s/216330.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216330.The_Important_Book 4.03 116 The Important Book--is that you let your child tell you what is important about the sun and the moon and the wind and the rain and a bug and a bee and a chair and a table and a pencil and a bear and a rainbow and a cat (if he wants to).For the important thing about The Important Book is that the book goes on long after it is closed.What is most important about many familiar things—like rain and wind, apples and daisies—is suggested in rhythmic words and vivid pictures. ‘A perfect book . . . the text establishes a word game which tiny children will accept with glee.’ —K.

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It's not that we necessarily agree that the only important thing about an apple is its roundness, nor that the only important thing about the sky is its color, it's that we use these statements as a way to j...more...]]> 42318599 431775 216330 0064432270 9780064432276 24 <![CDATA[The Important Book]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172782969m/216330.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172782969s/216330.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216330.The_Important_Book 4.03 116 The Important Book--is that you let your child tell you what is important about the sun and the moon and the wind and the rain and a bug and a bee and a chair and a table and a pencil and a bear and a rainbow and a cat (if he wants to).For the important thing about The Important Book is that the book goes on long after it is closed.What is most important about many familiar things—like rain and wind, apples and daisies—is suggested in rhythmic words and vivid pictures. ‘A perfect book . . . the text establishes a word game which tiny children will accept with glee.’ —K.

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I do like the message at the end that what is important about YOU is that YOU are YOU!]]> 77572410 954432 216330 0064432270 9780064432276 24 <![CDATA[The Important Book]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172782969m/216330.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172782969s/216330.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216330.The_Important_Book 4.03 116 The Important Book--is that you let your child tell you what is important about the sun and the moon and the wind and the rain and a bug and a bee and a chair and a table and a pencil and a bear and a rainbow and a cat (if he wants to).For the important thing about The Important Book is that the book goes on long after it is closed.What is most important about many familiar things—like rain and wind, apples and daisies—is suggested in rhythmic words and vivid pictures. ‘A perfect book . . . the text establishes a word game which tiny children will accept with glee.’ —K.

]]> 1989 0 0 false Tue Nov 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 13:11:49 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 13:11:49 -0800 2009 76643132 2644282 216330 0064432270 9780064432276 24 <![CDATA[The Important Book]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172782969m/216330.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172782969s/216330.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216330.The_Important_Book 4.03 116 The Important Book--is that you let your child tell you what is important about the sun and the moon and the wind and the rain and a bug and a bee and a chair and a table and a pencil and a bear and a rainbow and a cat (if he wants to).For the important thing about The Important Book is that the book goes on long after it is closed.What is most important about many familiar things—like rain and wind, apples and daisies—is suggested in rhythmic words and vivid pictures. ‘A perfect book . . . the text establishes a word game which tiny children will accept with glee.’ —K.

]]> 1989 5 0 false Tue Nov 03 18:16:38 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 03 18:16:38 -0800 2009 50641202 381079 216330 0064432270 9780064432276 24 <![CDATA[The Important Book]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172782969m/216330.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172782969s/216330.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216330.The_Important_Book 4.03 116 The Important Book--is that you let your child tell you what is important about the sun and the moon and the wind and the rain and a bug and a bee and a chair and a table and a pencil and a bear and a rainbow and a cat (if he wants to).For the important thing about The Important Book is that the book goes on long after it is closed.What is most important about many familiar things—like rain and wind, apples and daisies—is suggested in rhythmic words and vivid pictures. ‘A perfect book . . . the text establishes a word game which tiny children will accept with glee.’ —K.

]]> 1989 5 0 false Fri Mar 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 27 14:27:20 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 27 14:28:29 -0700 2009 73162808 2644042 216330 0064432270 9780064432276 24 <![CDATA[The Important Book]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172782969m/216330.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172782969s/216330.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216330.The_Important_Book 4.03 116 The Important Book--is that you let your child tell you what is important about the sun and the moon and the wind and the rain and a bug and a bee and a chair and a table and a pencil and a bear and a rainbow and a cat (if he wants to).For the important thing about The Important Book is that the book goes on long after it is closed.What is most important about many familiar things—like rain and wind, apples and daisies—is suggested in rhythmic words and vivid pictures. ‘A perfect book . . . the text establishes a word game which tiny children will accept with glee.’ —K.

]]> 1989 0 0 false Thu Oct 01 19:20:45 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 19:22:55 -0700 2009 45085332 1176456 216330 0064432270 9780064432276 24 <![CDATA[The Important Book]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172782969m/216330.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172782969s/216330.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216330.The_Important_Book 4.03 116 The Important Book--is that you let your child tell you what is important about the sun and the moon and the wind and the rain and a bug and a bee and a chair and a table and a pencil and a bear and a rainbow and a cat (if he wants to).For the important thing about The Important Book is that the book goes on long after it is closed.What is most important about many familiar things—like rain and wind, apples and daisies—is suggested in rhythmic words and vivid pictures. ‘A perfect book . . . the text establishes a word game which tiny children will accept with glee.’ —K.

]]> 1989 0 0 false Sun Feb 01 18:05:25 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 01 18:08:03 -0800 2009 64018397 314550 216330 0064432270 9780064432276 24 <![CDATA[The Important Book]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172782969m/216330.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172782969s/216330.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216330.The_Important_Book 4.03 116 The Important Book--is that you let your child tell you what is important about the sun and the moon and the wind and the rain and a bug and a bee and a chair and a table and a pencil and a bear and a rainbow and a cat (if he wants to).For the important thing about The Important Book is that the book goes on long after it is closed.What is most important about many familiar things—like rain and wind, apples and daisies—is suggested in rhythmic words and vivid pictures. ‘A perfect book . . . the text establishes a word game which tiny children will accept with glee.’ —K.

]]> 1989 4 0 false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jul 18 15:22:08 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 18 15:23:03 -0700 2009 58638557 366455 216330 0064432270 9780064432276 24 <![CDATA[The Important Book]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172782969m/216330.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172782969s/216330.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216330.The_Important_Book 4.03 116 The Important Book--is that you let your child tell you what is important about the sun and the moon and the wind and the rain and a bug and a bee and a chair and a table and a pencil and a bear and a rainbow and a cat (if he wants to).For the important thing about The Important Book is that the book goes on long after it is closed.What is most important about many familiar things—like rain and wind, apples and daisies—is suggested in rhythmic words and vivid pictures. ‘A perfect book . . . the text establishes a word game which tiny children will accept with glee.’ —K.

]]> 1989 5 0 false Sat Jun 06 07:29:23 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 07:30:59 -0700 2009 74016691 2231538 216330 0064432270 9780064432276 24 <![CDATA[The Important Book]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172782969m/216330.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172782969s/216330.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216330.The_Important_Book 4.03 116 The Important Book--is that you let your child tell you what is important about the sun and the moon and the wind and the rain and a bug and a bee and a chair and a table and a pencil and a bear and a rainbow and a cat (if he wants to).For the important thing about The Important Book is that the book goes on long after it is closed.What is most important about many familiar things—like rain and wind, apples and daisies—is suggested in rhythmic words and vivid pictures. ‘A perfect book . . . the text establishes a word game which tiny children will accept with glee.’ —K.

]]> 1989 5 0 false Fri Oct 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 09 16:39:11 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 09 16:39:38 -0700 2009 48851447 363070 2508754 0060207213 9780060207212 1 <![CDATA[The Important Book]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2508754.The_Important_Book 3.00 1 "The important thing about rain is/ that it is wet./ It falls out of the sky,/ and it sounds like rain,/ and makes things shiny,/ and it does not taste like anything,/ and is the color of air./ But the important thing about rain is that it is wet."

Goodnight Moon creator Margaret Wise Brown's The Important Book is a deceptively simple exercise--taking familiar things like an apple, spoon, or shoe, and finding the most basic association with those things. The most important thing about an apple? It is round. A spoon? You eat with it. A shoe? You put your foot in it. But why, according to Brown, is the most important thing about grass "that it is green," while the most important thing about an apple is "that it is round"? Why is "that it is white" the most important thing about snow and a daisy? Whether or not you'd distill these things in the same way that the author does, Brown makes us think about the essence of everyday entities in new ways. The illustrations, by Caldecott Medal winner Leonard Weisgard (The Little Island), perform the same function--capturing the spoonness of spoons, the roundness of an apple, the motion of wind.

Happily, Brown went on to create the companion Another Important Book, about the importance of being one, two, three, four, five, and six years old--published for the first time in 1999 with fabulous artwork by Caldecott Honor artist Chris Raschka (Yo! Yes?). Both of Brown's "important books" will endure the test of time as fresh, thought-provoking ways to examine the world around us. (Click to see a sample spread. Text copyright renewed 1977 by Roberta Brown Rauch. Illustrations copyright renewed 1977 by Leonard Weisgard. Permission from HarperCollins Publishers.) (Preschool and older) --Karin Snelson

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]]> 1989 5 0 false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 25 06:28:29 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 25 06:35:16 -0700 2008 26808880 528928 216330 0064432270 9780064432276 24 <![CDATA[The Important Book]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172782969m/216330.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172782969s/216330.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216330.The_Important_Book 4.03 116 The Important Book--is that you let your child tell you what is important about the sun and the moon and the wind and the rain and a bug and a bee and a chair and a table and a pencil and a bear and a rainbow and a cat (if he wants to).For the important thing about The Important Book is that the book goes on long after it is closed.What is most important about many familiar things—like rain and wind, apples and daisies—is suggested in rhythmic words and vivid pictures. ‘A perfect book . . . the text establishes a word game which tiny children will accept with glee.’ —K.

]]> 1989 4 0 false Wed Jul 09 19:00:06 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 09 19:00:56 -0700 2008 4038798 237321 216330 0064432270 9780064432276 24 <![CDATA[The Important Book]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172782969m/216330.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172782969s/216330.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216330.The_Important_Book 4.03 116 The Important Book--is that you let your child tell you what is important about the sun and the moon and the wind and the rain and a bug and a bee and a chair and a table and a pencil and a bear and a rainbow and a cat (if he wants to).For the important thing about The Important Book is that the book goes on long after it is closed.What is most important about many familiar things—like rain and wind, apples and daisies—is suggested in rhythmic words and vivid pictures. ‘A perfect book . . . the text establishes a word game which tiny children will accept with glee.’ —K.

]]> 1989 5 0 false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 03 13:29:45 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 03:36:56 -0800 2009 19634647 987336 216330 0064432270 9780064432276 24 <![CDATA[The Important Book]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172782969m/216330.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172782969s/216330.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216330.The_Important_Book 4.03 116 The Important Book--is that you let your child tell you what is important about the sun and the moon and the wind and the rain and a bug and a bee and a chair and a table and a pencil and a bear and a rainbow and a cat (if he wants to).For the important thing about The Important Book is that the book goes on long after it is closed.What is most important about many familiar things—like rain and wind, apples and daisies—is suggested in rhythmic words and vivid pictures. ‘A perfect book . . . the text establishes a word game which tiny children will accept with glee.’ —K.

]]> 1989 3 0 false Mon Apr 07 07:24:12 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 07 07:26:56 -0700 2008 23173606 579102 216330 0064432270 9780064432276 24 <![CDATA[The Important Book]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172782969m/216330.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172782969s/216330.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216330.The_Important_Book 4.03 116 The Important Book--is that you let your child tell you what is important about the sun and the moon and the wind and the rain and a bug and a bee and a chair and a table and a pencil and a bear and a rainbow and a cat (if he wants to).For the important thing about The Important Book is that the book goes on long after it is closed.What is most important about many familiar things—like rain and wind, apples and daisies—is suggested in rhythmic words and vivid pictures. ‘A perfect book . . . the text establishes a word game which tiny children will accept with glee.’ —K.

]]> 1989 5 0 false Wed May 28 18:25:21 -0700 2008 Wed May 28 18:25:51 -0700 2008 10152665 229630 216330 0064432270 9780064432276 24 <![CDATA[The Important Book]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172782969m/216330.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172782969s/216330.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216330.The_Important_Book 4.03 116 The Important Book--is that you let your child tell you what is important about the sun and the moon and the wind and the rain and a bug and a bee and a chair and a table and a pencil and a bear and a rainbow and a cat (if he wants to).For the important thing about The Important Book is that the book goes on long after it is closed.What is most important about many familiar things—like rain and wind, apples and daisies—is suggested in rhythmic words and vivid pictures. ‘A perfect book . . . the text establishes a word game which tiny children will accept with glee.’ —K.

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