The Dirty Little Boy
Margaret Wise BrownPublished2005
Pages32
Formatpaperback
PublisherMarshall Cavendish Children
Synopsis
One day, a dirty little boy asks his mother to give him a bath. But she's very busy and tells him to watch how the animals bathe. When he tries to imitate them, he just gets dirtier and dirtier! The Dirty Little Boy was first published in 1939 by Jack and Jill magazine. Originally entitled, "How the Animals Took a Bath," it later became part of an anthology published by Curtis Publishing Company. This edition was developed in cooperation with Margaret Wise Brown's estate.
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About Margaret Wise Brown
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Margaret Wise Brown
1910–1952
Margaret Wise Brown was born in Brooklyn, NY. While working as a teacher at the Bank Street Experimental School, she started writing books for children. Margaret was a prolific writer. Over 100 of her stories were published as picture books during her lifetime. She also wrote articles about writing for children, adapted classics, ghost wrote stories and many of her stories appear in anthologies. On November 13, 1952 at the age of 42 she died from an embolism, following a operation while on vacation in France. Posthumously several stories were at publishers ready for publication. In recent years many of Margaret's works have been reprinted. Many were previously published as stories in collections and anthologies; some are from unfinished manuscripts.
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