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《玛格丽特·怀兹·布朗珍藏绘本集》一共有5册中英双语图画书，全部为热销1400万册的《逃家小兔》《晚安，月亮》作者、四度凯迪克奖得主玛格丽特·怀兹·布朗女士未发表的珍藏之作，由英国插画家精心配图。均为优美、温馨又富于童趣的睡前读物。
书中既有欢快的旅行之歌，也有温馨的睡前故事和童谣，文字一如继往地温馨、优美。
这是玛格丽特留给这个世界和孩子们的经典图画书合集！她所具有的以孩子的眼睛看世界的非凡能力，是无以伦比的。
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First published March 22, 2013
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Margaret Wise Brown
396 books1,258 followersMargaret Wise Brown wrote hundreds of books and stories during her life, but she is best known for Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny. Even though she died nearly 70 years ago, her books still sell very well.
Margaret loved animals. Most of her books have animals as characters in the story. She liked to write books that had a rhythm to them. Sometimes she would put a hard word into the story or poem. She thought this made children think harder when they are reading.
She wrote all the time. There are many scraps of paper where she quickly wrote down a story idea or a poem. She said she dreamed stories and then had to write them down in the morning before she forgot them.
She tried to write the way children wanted to hear a story, which often isn't the same way an adult would tell a story. She also taught illustrators to draw the way a child saw things. One time she gave two puppies to someone who was going to draw a book with that kind of dog. The illustrator painted many pictures one day and then fell asleep. When he woke up, the papers he painted on were bare. The puppies had licked all the paint off the paper.
Margaret died after surgery for a bursting appendix while in France. She had many friends who still miss her. They say she was a creative genius who made a room come to life with her excitement. Margaret saw herself as something else - a writer of songs and nonsense.
Margaret loved animals. Most of her books have animals as characters in the story. She liked to write books that had a rhythm to them. Sometimes she would put a hard word into the story or poem. She thought this made children think harder when they are reading.
She wrote all the time. There are many scraps of paper where she quickly wrote down a story idea or a poem. She said she dreamed stories and then had to write them down in the morning before she forgot them.
She tried to write the way children wanted to hear a story, which often isn't the same way an adult would tell a story. She also taught illustrators to draw the way a child saw things. One time she gave two puppies to someone who was going to draw a book with that kind of dog. The illustrator painted many pictures one day and then fell asleep. When he woke up, the papers he painted on were bare. The puppies had licked all the paint off the paper.
Margaret died after surgery for a bursting appendix while in France. She had many friends who still miss her. They say she was a creative genius who made a room come to life with her excitement. Margaret saw herself as something else - a writer of songs and nonsense.
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September 11, 2019
I am surprised that there are no Kirkus like whines here about the fact that there is no diversity here in the family groups, but gender isn't mentioned, so I guess it passes muster.
Instead what we have are people going on about how the animals are made to seem too like humans.
As my assistant so cogently put it, "This is Margaret Wise Brown. This bothers people more than a dressed up rabbit in Goodnight Moon?
It's sweet. Probably not her best book, and the illustrations, while cute, are certainly not what she would have done. But the complaints are just silly.
Instead what we have are people going on about how the animals are made to seem too like humans.
As my assistant so cogently put it, "This is Margaret Wise Brown. This bothers people more than a dressed up rabbit in Goodnight Moon?
It's sweet. Probably not her best book, and the illustrations, while cute, are certainly not what she would have done. But the complaints are just silly.
August 3, 2017
Using elephants, rabbits, and dogs, the child explores how some families are large and some are small, the different kinds of meals families eat, and some different places families sleep. At the same time, families share similar needs.
Margaret Wise Brown liked tucking questions into her books, encouraging the listener to respond and the reader to listen throughout the story. This technique has more recently been labeled "DIALOGIC READING" and is a natural process that draws children into acquiring a love of books and later reading. http://www.readingrockets.org/article...
Margaret Wise Brown liked tucking questions into her books, encouraging the listener to respond and the reader to listen throughout the story. This technique has more recently been labeled "DIALOGIC READING" and is a natural process that draws children into acquiring a love of books and later reading. http://www.readingrockets.org/article...
February 3, 2019
This book was very cute. It will show your students that animals have families just like you. The book also teaches the students about animals and numbers. Each page we talked about a different animal and the "number" of how many family members each animal has. This book is a great book for a kindergarten level starting to talk about animals and numbers. I will be using this in the classroom.
September 6, 2018
A good book for very young children. Teaches them about different animals and their families.
January 17, 2019
A low key reassuring story about families, using elephant, rabbit, dog, and bunny families. This title published in 2013 had been previously unpublished by Margaret Wise Brown.
September 14, 2019
Given the author, I was expecting a lot more.
September 22, 2019
Comparison of different animal families - elephant, rabbit, dog - with human families. The message feels disjointed rather than calming.
January 7, 2020
Story time, simple text- families, animals, counting
July 13, 2020
“Everyone has a family” . . . Uh . . .
February 28, 2021
Slim plot, perhaps useful for kids resisting bedtime, boosted by charming, detailed, uplifting illustrations I could look at over and over.
December 3, 2021
This is a nice little bedtime story of different kinds of animal families. Some families are big and some are small but they can all have love.
September 3, 2024
This one was okay, but not a favorite for any of us; one time reading it was enough. The illustrations didn't feel like a Margaret Wise Brown book.
February 3, 2026
good for introducing to rly young readers how every family is different; counting practice
February 27, 2023
Good one for young ones.
September 15, 2016
The illustrations are nice and soft and cozy. The story is a little awkward though.
Also, the text is written trying to connect the readers family with the animal families in the book, as if humans and other animals eat and do the same activities - like sleep and so forth. Bunnies are crepuscular, so they don't have the same kind of eating sleeping habits as humans. And domesticated dogs don't really eat bones when they're hungry. The illustrator put five dog bowls on the page why not put dog food in it?
Anyway, it has a few flaws but it's a sweet
gentle book meant to help little ones feel connection.
Also, the text is written trying to connect the readers family with the animal families in the book, as if humans and other animals eat and do the same activities - like sleep and so forth. Bunnies are crepuscular, so they don't have the same kind of eating sleeping habits as humans. And domesticated dogs don't really eat bones when they're hungry. The illustrator put five dog bowls on the page why not put dog food in it?
Anyway, it has a few flaws but it's a sweet
gentle book meant to help little ones feel connection.
March 24, 2019
Yes, there's something comforting here, but the book sort of presents these things as facts or realities when they're a little different than that. The animals are anthropomorphized but not as overtly as they should be -- this book could lead a child to believe that, for instance, animal and human families really are comparable or that, say, dogs eat bones when they're hungry. I just don't see the point of it. There are more comforting books out there.
May 28, 2020
The writing itself was sweet, but the illustrations could be problematic for some children. In each picture of the animal families, there were two parents- very nuclear family centered. While someone may not look into that issue to deep, I think it may make some children, who come from non-nuclear family backgrounds, left out.
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September 28, 2023Note to self: Owned as part of the Margaret Wise Brown Treasury
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