Authors: Margaret Wise Brown,Joan Paley
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I Like Stars (3 page)
About the Author
Margaret Wise Brown liked stars.
As a girl she liked to sleep on the upstairs porch in the summer with her sister and their cat named Ole King Cole. From her bed she could look out over the trees at the stars.
Could it be that on one of those warm summer nights Margaret was thinking about “a star that is shining right straight in your eye”?
Gazing up at the stars and moon put Margaret in a dreamy mood. What a mystery it all was!
Years later, as a grown-up, she still enjoyed looking up at the night sky—and letting her mind wander.
One night she fell asleep at her window. The next morning she awoke and wrote down the words in her head: “Goodnight moon… goodnight stars…” Those words became her best-known book,
Goodnight Moon
.
As a famous author, she liked to tell her friends that she did not actually write books. She “dreamt” them.
Sometimes, it seems, she really did!
In
I Like Stars
, Margaret Wise Brown tells about many different kinds of stars: blue stars, green stars, quiet ones, bright ones.
What kinds of stars do
you
see when you look up at the stars at night?
—
Leonard S. Marcus
Leonard S. Marcus is a well-known
biographer and historian, and the
author of
Margaret Wise Brown:
Awakened by the Moon.
Text copyright © 1954, renewed 1982 by Random House, Inc.
Illustrations copyright © 1998 by Joan Paley.
Afterword copyright © 1998 Leonard S. Marcus.
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published by Golden Books, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc., in 1954. This revised edition originally published by Golden Books in 1998.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Brown, Margaret Wise, 1910–1952.
I like stars / by Margaret Wise Brown; illustrated by Joan Paley; with an afterword by Leonard S. Marcus.
p. cm. — (Step into reading. A step 1 book)
SUMMARY
: A simple poem describing all kinds of stars that appear in the night sky.
1. Stars—Juvenile poetry. 2. Children’s poetry, American.
[1. Stars—Poetry. 2. American poetry.]
I. Paley, Joan, ill. II. Title. III. Series: Step into reading. Step 1 book.
PS3503.R82184I16 2003 811′.52—dc21 2002013763
STEP INTO READING, RANDOM HOUSE
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eISBN: 978-0-307-53171-1
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