Margaret Wise Brown (1910)
Margaret Wise Brown was an American writer of children’s books, including Goodnight Moon (1947) and The Runaway Bunny (1942), both illustrated by Clement Hurd. She has been called “the laureate of…
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Péter Szilágyi (1954)
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