New Releases by Margaret Wise Brown

Clement Hurd redrew some of his pictures for this new edition of the profoundly comforting story of a bunny’s imaginary game of hide-and-seek and the lovingly steadfast mother who finds him every time.

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.

Animals, people, and things become quiet and sleep when night comes.

Unable to sleep on Christmas Eve, four children creep downstairs to see the tree, their stockings, their wrapped gifts, and to hear the singing of the carolers.

The great big tall fireman and the little fireman, whose firehouses are right next door to each other, each find a fire which is the right size for them to fight.

Fantasy.

The bird was dead when the children found it, so they dug a grave in the woods and buried it, and sang a song to it.

An old lady living alone by the sea finds joy and comfort from her seventeen cats and especially one small blue-grey kitten.

Colored pictures show an animal walking around the world on his four fur feet, never making a sound, but hearing many. Preschool.

A farmer ties a wheel to his chimney to encourage storks to nest there and bring honor and good luck to his house.

Animals, people, and things become quiet and sleep when night comes.

There was a little fur family warm as toast smaller than most in little fur coats and they lived in a warm wooden tree.