Copyright

Cover illustration from Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Clement Hurd. Copyright © 1974 by Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. Illustrations copyright renewed 1975 by Edith T. Hurd, Clement Hurd, John Thacher Hurd, and George Hellyer, as trustees of the Edith and Clement Hurd 1982 Trust. Reprinted by permission of Curtis Brown, Ltd.

Lines from “Primary Education” by Phyllis McGinley reprinted by permission; © 1939 (renewed 1967, 1995). Originally in The New Yorker. All rights reserved.

Illustrations 26 from Mister Dog, © 1969 Golden Books Publishing Company, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

MARGARET WISE BROWN. Copyright © 1992 by Leonard S. Marcus. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

Cover design by Bradford Foltz

Cover illustration: Goodnight Moon (c) 1947 and Renewal Copyright (c) 1975 Albert E. Clarke Ill Living Trust dated April 4, 2013 and Peaceable Kingdom, LP.

Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.

This selection may not be re-illustrated without written permission of HarperCollins

Cover photograph: Consuelo Kanaga (American, 1894-1978). Margaret Wise Brown. Cellulose acetate negative, 2 3/8 x 2 3/8 in. (6 x 6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Wallace B. Putnam from the Estate of Consuelo Kanaga, 82.65.1834

This book was originally published in 1992 by Beacon Press.

First Quill edition published 1999.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Marcus, Leonard S.

Margaret Wise Brown: awakened by the moon /

Leonard S. Marcus.—

lst ed.

p. cm.

        Originally published: Boston: Beacon Press, © 1992.

        Includes bibliographical references and index.

        ISBN 0-688-17188-5

        1. Brown, Margaret Wise, 1910-1952. 2. Women authors, American—20th century—Biography. 3. Children’s literature—Authorship. I. Title.

PS3503.R82184Z78      1999

813'.52–dc21

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