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<p><P>Margaret Wise Brown once observed, To write well for children, one must love the things that children love. And write well for children she did &#151; with a deep love for and a keen perception of all things great and small in the world around us.<P>Collected here for the first time are twenty-four of Margaret Wise Brown's children's poems, which range in subject from jig-dancing pigs and the wild sound of the wind to the colors of a summer day and the joy of giving oneself to the rain.<P>With a foreword by noted children's literature scholar and Brown biographer Leonard S. Marcus, and illustrated with vibrant and sensitive paintings by Teri L. Weidner, <i>Give Yourself to the Rain</i> is a precious gift to be shared among children and adults everywhere.<br></p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p>Although many of the previously unpublished poems in this posthumous collection demonstrate the lyricism of Brown's best work, others seem clunky, as if the poems needed further polishing to find the quiet rhythms and grace of language hidden inside. Marcus, Brown's biographer, provides an eloquent foreword and relates how Brown scribbled poems on the backs of envelopes, but was a consummat

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Author

Margaret Wise Brown; illustrations by Teri L. Weidner

Publisher

Margaret K. McElderry Books; McElderry Books, Margaret K.

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780689833441

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities

Rating

3.73 / 5 (48 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14