Learning more about one of my favorite children's book authors, Margaret Wise Brown, by reading her biography: Awakened by the Moon by Leonard S. Marcus. In the 1930s she attended the highly progressive Bank Street teacher's college in NYC and worked with children in the lower grades of the Little Red School House. The philosophy there sounds like something I'd love for my own children, presently in the 21st-century NYC public schools. So much about exploration and imagination. Brown herself spoke of how much she admired the creativity of her students. In this atmosphere it is not surprising that she will develop a writing style that is abstract and inventive and so much like the way children themselves speak and think when they are very young. Loving this book!