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The Important Book

by Margaret Wise Brown

Hardcover, 24 pages

Published by HarperCollins (1949-05-24)

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Amazon Description

The important thing about The Important Book -- is that you let your child tell you what is important about the sun and the moon and the wind and the rain and a bug and a bee and a chair and a table and a pencil and a bear and a rainbow and a cat (if he wants to). For the important thing about The Important Book is that the book goes on long after it is closed.What is most important about many familiar things -- like rain and wind, apples and daisies -- is suggested in rhythmic words and vivid pictures. 'A perfect book . . . the text establishes a word game which tiny children will accept with glee.' -- K.

One Potato Review

Sounds threatening, but don’t worry - these are only suggestions, though they may have gained some currency in the sixty-something years since Margaret Wise Brown first proposed them. Is the important thing about a daisy that it is white? Or maybe its ticklish smell, or the fact that there are always lots of them. Feel free to weigh in: on the defining roundness of an apple, or a spoon, or the wind that emphatically blows. Or you - just you - and whatever it is that makes you different than everything else. A rousing exploration, for many early years.

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