in English from Hollins in 1932, Brown worked as a teacher and also studied art. After graduation in 1928, Brown went on to Hollins College in Roanoke, Virginia.īrown was an avid, lifelong beagler and was noted for her ability to keep pace, on foot, with the hounds. She began attending Dana Hall School in Wellesley, Massachusetts, in 1926, where she did well in athletics. In 1925, she attended The Kew-Forest School. She was initially raised in Brooklyn's Greenpoint neighborhood, and attended Chateau Brilliantmont boarding school in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1923, while her parents were living in India and Canterbury, Connecticut. She was the granddaughter of politician Benjamin Gratz Brown. Life and career īrown was born in Brooklyn, New York, the middle child of three of Maude Margaret (Johnson) and Robert Bruce Brown. She has been called 'the laureate of the nursery' for her achievements. It is a good book to read to learn simple things about different insects at a young age.Margaret Wise Brown (– November 13, 1952) was an American writer of children's books, including Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny, both illustrated by Clement Hurd. I think this book is better for students a little older than PreK when they already know more insects better and can recognize them but I think this is a good read for younger students who are learning to read on their own. I think I would have liked this book better if while it was talking about “round bugs” and “shiny bugs” or “mean bugs” and “nice bugs,” it gave names for some of the bugs since the pictures were hard to decipher. I think the illustrations were alright but not always very clear for young readers. It tended to make things a little confusing especially when the bugs on the page weren’t the main focus and were too tiny to see. I used this book in a tutoring session with a PreK student and they struggled to understand how the same bugs were different or why they were being repeated so much.

I enjoyed this book but it was sometimes hard for young children to tell what the pictures of the bugs in the book were.

It is a very easy read with only 3-4 words per page. I Like Bugs by Margaret Wise Brown is a level one Step into Reading book.