(2) PS Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney. In this cozy (previously unpublished) story, winter is approaching, and it's time for all the farm animals to move into the "big warm barn." Brown's evocative text includes the sights, sounds, and textures of the farmyard--the horses' breath in the cold air, swallows chirping in the barn rafters. Pinkney's earth-toned, full-bleed double-page spreads create an atmosphere of warmth and tranquility, making this a particularly good bedtime read.

Reviewer: Julie Danielson | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2018

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Greg Pizzoli. This never-before-published text by Brown follows a little red bird whose mother sings to her about taking flight. She sets out exploring the North, South, and West before she finally returns to the East, because "the East was home." Pizzoli's style is defined by a bright palette and crisp geometric forms that create a mid-century modern aesthetic, befitting a story written by Brown.

Reviewer: Megan Dowd Lambert | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2017

(3) PS Illustrated by Clement Hurd. Retrospective by Leonard S. Marcus. This edition is notable for children's literature historian Marcus's twenty-page afterword. His reflections include biographical information about the creators and their editor (the legendary Ursula Nordstrom); insight into the trio's collaboration; discussion of the book's legacy; and reproductions of correspondence, photos, and illustrations from early editions. Scholars and interested (grown-up) readers will find this a rich look at a cultural touchstone.

Reviewer: Kitty Flynn

(3) PS Illustrated by Loren Long. A young bunny thoroughly greets the sunny day before bidding it good night when the moon comes up. Brown's newly published text features the soothing repetition of her more famous bedtime book, and Long's acrylic illustrations pay a softened homage to Clement Hurd's classic art. Unlikely to replace Goodnight Moon on nightstands, but the book's simple, patterned language will similarly appeal to very young listeners.

Reviewer: Jessica Tackett MacDonald

(2) PS Illustrated by Leonard Weisgard. Two of Margaret Wise Brown's seven Noisy books featuring Muffin, "the little dog who heard everything," are here reissued in sturdy, glossy, faithful-to-the-original board books. Generations of children have reveled in the books' interactive noises, direct-address questions, enjoyably silly possibilities ("Was it a policeman going squeak squeak squeak? NO"), and final revelations. Review covers these titles: The Noisy Book and The Quiet Noisy Book.

Reviewer: Martha V. Parravano

(2) PS Illustrated by Leonard Weisgard. Two of Margaret Wise Brown's seven Noisy books featuring Muffin, "the little dog who heard everything," are here reissued in sturdy, glossy, faithful-to-the-original board books. Generations of children have reveled in the books' interactive noises, direct-address questions, enjoyably silly possibilities ("Was it a policeman going squeak squeak squeak? NO"), and final revelations. Review covers these titles: The Noisy Book and The Quiet Noisy Book.

Reviewer: Martha V. Parravano | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 1950

(3) PS Illustrated by Christian Robinson. This child-centered meditation on life and death was first illustrated in 1958 by Remy Charlip. Robinson's sensitive new mixed-media art, with its personality-rich quartet of young people (one boy wears a fox mask and tail for most of the story) and its city-park setting, elicits the children's deeply felt emotions and their actions to honor the bird's memory.

Reviewer: Elissa Gershowitz | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2016

(4) PS Illustrated by Anna Dewdney. First published in 1952, Brown's simple rhyming couplets tell the Nativity story as a baby is welcomed by a barn full of animals. Dewdney's new illustrations for this edition, created using oil paint, pastel, pencil, and marker, are more blurry than gauzy, with a muddy contrast between light and dark colors on many of the double-page spreads.

Reviewer: Gail Hedges | Horn Book Magazine Issue: December, 1952

(3) PS Illustrated by Leonard Weisgard. This reissue gathers stories and poems about rabbits. Weisgard's richly layered illustrations are carefully reproduced; they are both a product of their time and an invitation for a contemporary child to look at woodlands in a new way. Brown's text fully inhabits a rabbit's world.

Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth

(3) PS Translated by Teresa Mlawer. Illustrated by Clement Hurd. Like the original English, the Spanish text in this bilingual edition has just the right tone for reading aloud to infants and toddlers. And thankfully, this board book doesn't cut any of the original illustrations or words.

Reviewer: Tim Wadham

(3) K-3 Step into Reading series. Illustrated by G. Brian Karas. "Silver fish. / Gold fish. / Black fish. / Old fish." Each line of this spare rhythmic text (originally published in 1954) is accompanied by a richly colored (mostly) full-page gouache and pencil illustration. Karas's pictures provide some context (if not a narrative); each features a kid engaged in a water activity (canoeing, wading in a stream, etc.). The paperback edition includes stickers.

Reviewer: Gail Hedges

(3) PS Twelve lullaby poems, most never before published, are illustrated by an array of familiar illustrators including Dan Yaccarino and Melissa Sweet. The collection includes a CD of the poems set to music by the singer/songwriters Tom Proutt and Emily Gary. Brown's skill with rhythm and sensory images comes through in her lyrics, and the songs themselves are appropriately soporific for a bedtime collection.

Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth

(4) PS Illustrated by Clement Hurd. This counting book lifts parts of Brown's writing and fragments from Hurd's illustrations to demonstrate numbers one through ten and one hundred. Some pages use figures and text in a way that makes sense ("One quiet old lady whispering hush"; "Three little bears sitting on chairs"), while others are arbitrary ("Five telephones"; "Six bowls of mush"). The smaller size of this board book edition doesn't detract from the layout.

Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth

(4) K-3 Illustrated by David Hitch. Dr. Squash attends to the dolls' ailments. When he falls sick, the dolls use his techniques to heal him. The details of imaginative play are right on target for the audience. Brown's story (the text is slightly revised, though it's still a little dated) is reissued with fresh illustrations that maintain a friendly, old-fashioned appearance.

Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth

(4) PS Illustrated by Karen Katz. "A is for Aaaah / when a small / kitten sighs / B is for Baaaaaa / when the lambs / close their eyes." While this isn't Brown's freshest text, it's a love match with Katz's style: her happy, big-headed babies and toddlers surrounded by zingy colors and patterns are game to demonstrate or witness whatever Brown sends their way.

Reviewer: Nell Beram

(4) PS Illustrated by Stephen Savage. As the sun sets, all types of fathers return to their little ones: a rabbit to his bunnies, a dog to his pups, and a sailor to his little boy. In this newly discovered manuscript, the text's constructions aren't always parallel, so at times the cadence is irregular. Retro-style linocuts in eye-catching colors evoke the bond between father and child.

Reviewer: Rebecca Reed Whidden

(3) K-3 Illustrated by Anne Mortimer. Employing her mastery of repetition and rhythm, Brown conveys the classic sensory images of the Christmas season. Mortimer's realistic, richly hued watercolors depict curious Pussycat as she recognizes traditional holiday trappings--sparkling Christmas-tree lights, forest-green holly, orange tangerines, and brown walnuts. The book was first published in 1949 with illustrations by Helen Stone.

Reviewer: Sheila M. Geraty

(3) PS Illustrated by Karen Katz. "Night is over. The moon goes down. The morning star is blazing bright--the bright and morning star." Brown's comforting text is newly illustrated in this toddler-friendly edition. Katz's round-faced, chubby babies of different ethnicities inhabit a bucolic world of cheerful ponies, scampering squirrels, and fluffy lambs.

Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth | Horn Book Magazine Issue: December, 1952

(3) K-3 This compendium contains fourteen stories and poems by the renowned author of Goodnight Moon. Moon isn't included, but children (and nostalgic parents) will snuggle close to enjoy the comforting Pussy Willow (illustrated by Leonard Weisgard) and Home for a Bunny (Garth Williams), and thrill to the adventures of The Sailor Dog (Williams) and The Brave Life Saver (the Provensens).

Reviewer: Elissa Gershowitz

(4) PS Illustrated by Clement Hurd. These two lap-sized board books are handsomely produced editions of unremarkable picture books. My World, billed as a companion to Goodnight Moon, lacks the latter's organizational logic. Goodnight Moon 123 uses fragments of Hurd's art and Brown's text to teach numbers. Review covers these titles: Goodnight Moon 123 and My World.

Reviewer: Maeve Visser Knoth