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Marcus, Leonard S Margaret Wise Brown: Awakened by the Moon The definitive biography and source of information about Margaret Wise Brown and her work. New York: Quill/Morrow, 1999.


Paperback - 336 pages 1 Ed edition (October 1999)
Quill; ISBN: 0688171885 


 

Marcus, Leonard S., Clement Hurd (Illustrator)The Making of Goodnight Moon A 50th Anniversary Retrospective , New York: HarperCollins Children's Books, January 1997.
  Goodnight Moon: A 50th Anniversary Retrospective, Brown, Margaret Wise and  Marcus, Leonard S.,  New York: Harper Collins, 1997. 
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Brown, Margaret Wise, Joan W. Blos (Editor)

The Days Before Now: An Autobiographical Note

illustrated by Thomas B. Allen, Simon & Schuster, 1994. 

Greene, Carol Margaret Wise Brown : Author of Goodnight Moon, illustrated by
Steven Dobson,Children's Press: 1993. 

Written for children, this is a great introduction to MWB. 

Rylant, Cynthia.Margaret, Frank, and Andy: Three Writers' Stories, New York: Harcourt Brace,
1996
Edited by Anita Silvey Children's Books and Their Creators
 Houghton Mifflin, 1995. 95-97. The entry entitled "Margaret Wise Brown," is written by Leonard S. Marcus.

A must for any one that loves Children's Picture Books Arranged like an encyclopedia, this large book contains over 800 entries.

Collected and edited by Marcus, Leonard S. :Dear Genius:The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom

New York: Harper Collins, 1998.

 

Ursula Nordstrom was the Director of Harpers Dept. of Books for Boys & Girls from 1940 to 1973. Her correspondence with Children's Book Authors and illustrators are collected here. Among them many to MWB.