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4.1/5 Goodreads Language English Media type Print ISBN 978-0064432276 Publisher Harper Country United States of America | 4.5/5 Barnes & Noble Illustrator Leonard Weisgard Publication date 1949 Pages 24 Originally published 1949 Genre Children's literature Page count 24 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The important book by margaret wise brown
The Important Book is a 1949 children's picture book written by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Leonard Weisgard. The book describes various common entities and describes some of their major attributes in brief poetic passages, beginning and ending with what Brown considers the key attribute:
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— Margaret Wise Brown, The Important Book
Mark Frauenfelder, calling the book Brown's magnum opus, described it as "true poetry about perceiving the world around us" that "rekindles the sense of wonder we were born with". The book has remained in print since its initial publication, and is frequently used in early writing education since the simple pattern is easy for young children to mimic; Crista Boske and Autumn Tooms further attributed the book's popularity in education to "the value of working with a book that overtly invites the reader to think for themselves in the midst of learning the concrete and abstract simultaneously"
The American National Education Association listed the book at #92 in its "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children" list, compiled in 2007.