On this day in 1910, Margaret Wise Brown was born. Included in the over one hundred children's books she published -- even more came out after her early death -- are The Runaway Bunny (1942) and Goodnight Moon (1947). Brown's writing philosophy developed through her association with Lucy Sprague Mitchell's "here-and-now" approach to children's literature. One of Mitchell's monographs on the world inhabited by Mollie, a typical two-year-old at her experimental school, might be seen as a recipe for simply-told, everyday stories like Goodnight Moon ... FULL STORY »
