Margaret Wise Brown Books in Order

How many Margaret Wise Brown books are there?

Margaret Wise Brown has 166 books, released between 1937 and 2020. 100 of them were published after Margaret Wise Brown's death in 1952. They include 2 series and 140 titles listed outside any series.

Margaret Wise Brown Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 166 Margaret Wise Brown books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

Margaret Wise Brown books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Do you have to read Margaret Wise Brown books in order?

You only need to read Margaret Wise Brown books in order within each series: the books listed here span 2 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.

Where to start with Margaret Wise Brown

Start with When the Wind Blew (1937), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Margaret Wise Brown book?

100 First Words (2020) is the newest Margaret Wise Brown book released so far.

Is there a new Margaret Wise Brown book coming?

No next Margaret Wise Brown book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Margaret Wise Brown at a glance

Died

Margaret Wise Brown died in 1952, according to Wikidata.

After death

Books credited to Margaret Wise Brown are still being published after Margaret Wise Brown's death in 1952; the newest appeared in 2020.

Release pace

Margaret Wise Brown books have appeared more than one a year on average.

Length

2,856 pages across the 73 of 166 books with a recorded length, a median of 32 pages each.

Busiest decade

Most Margaret Wise Brown books, 36 of 166, were published in the 1950s.

What the Margaret Wise Brown books are about

123 of the 166 Margaret Wise Brown books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: children's fiction is tagged on 77 of 123. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

• Children's fiction 77 of 123 books
• Animals 22 of 123 books
• Stories in rhyme 21 of 123 books
• Rabbits 14 of 123 books
• Bedtime 13 of 123 books
• Poetry 13 of 123 books
• Dogs 12 of 123 books
• Children's poetry, American 11 of 123 books
• Juvenile poetry 11 of 123 books
• Sound 11 of 123 books