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Margaret Wise Brown, The Little Fir Tree (1954). Illustrations by Barbara Cooney

Original art from The Little Fur Family (1946) written by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Garth Williams

Margaret Wise Brown, Red Light Green Light (1944) Illustrations by Leonard Weisgard

Margaret Wise Brown, The Color Kittens (1949) Illustrations by Alice and Martin Provensen.

Caturday is here again, and these sleeping beauties are 77 years old, and drawn by Jean Charlot (1898-1977) for Margaret Wise Brown’s delightful A Child’s Good Night Book, published in 1943 and in our special collections now. Brown was prolific as a children’s book writer (Goodnight Moon, a perennial favorite) and Charlot was a great artist who, in his 20s, worked in Mexico City with Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco painting frescoes for the Mexican government…