Margaret Wise Brown
Recognized in the Creative Minds Montessori 2026 Teacher’s Choice list.
Margaret Wise Brown is one of roughly one hundred authors whose work was selected by the Montessori-certified teachers at Creative Minds Montessori for the 2026 Teacher’s Choice list — 120 books chosen across four reading stages, from first lap-reads to first chapter books. Their 2 selected books were chosen for how precisely they meet children at a real developmental moment. This recognition cannot be bought: no author or publisher paid to appear on our lists, and we take no commission on any book sale.
About Margaret Wise Brown
Margaret Wise Brown (1910–1952) wrote well over 100 children's books, among them Goodnight Moon. She worked at the Bank Street Experimental School in New York City, which promoted an approach to children's literature emphasising the real world and the 'here and now', and it was there that she began writing for children.
She also published under three pen names — Golden MacDonald, Timothy Hay and Juniper Sage, the last for books written with Edith Thacher Hurd.
Also by this author: The Runaway Bunny · Big Red Barn · The Important Book
Publisher page: harpercollins.co.uk/blogs/authors/margaret-wise-brown
Selected for the 2026 Teacher’s Choice list
Part of The Best Children’s Books by Age, chosen by the teachers at Creative Minds Montessori in Frisco, TX.