A Child's Good Night Book

Name: A Child's Good Night Book
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ISBN: 9780694008391

By: Margaret Wise Brown

Illustrated By: Jean Charlot

HarperFestival / 1996 / Hardcover

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Product Description

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In this lovely bedtime book, sheep and kangaroos, bunnies and bees, pussycats and children all go to sleep when night comes. Margaret Wise Brown's quiet words and Jean Charlot's gentle lithographs combine to make a perfect lullaby that is just right for a child to take to bed. With this edition, A Child's Good Night Book is restored to the small size and warm colors of the original book, first published in 1943. Recommended for ages 4 to 8. A 1944 Caldecott Honor book.

Product Information

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Title: A Child's Good Night Book
By: Margaret Wise Brown
Format: Hardcover
Number of Pages: 12
Vendor: HarperFestival
Publication Date: 1996

Dimensions: 5.88 X 5.03 X 0.54 (inches)
Weight: 6 ounces
ISBN: 0694008397
ISBN-13: 9780694008391
Ages: 4-8
Stock No: WW08397

Publisher's Description

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Night is coming and small things without words are going to sleep . . . sleepy bunnies, sleepy birds, and sleepy children, too, are getting under their covers. "Jean Charlot's illustrations are first-rate." —NYT. Barbara Bader called this 1943 book, now restored to its original size and format, "the first of the true bedtime books."

1944 Caldecott Honor Book

Author Bio

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Margaret Wise Brown, cherished for her unique ability to convey a child’s experience and perspective of the world, transformed the landscape of children’s literature with such beloved classics as Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny. Other perennial favorites by Ms. Brown include My World; Christmas in the Barn; The Dead Bird; North, South, East, West; and Good Day, Good Night.

Jean Charlot was a master lithographer and muralist whose works are a part of the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.