The Important Book

The Important Book

The Important Book, another collaboration between Margaret Wise Brown and illustrator Leonard Weisgard, is a quintessential “here and now” picturebook. It offers a plotless catalog of ordinary objects a child would be familiar with—shoes, grass, spoons, glass—along with poetic descriptions of each. Weisgard’s beautiful paintings are paired with Brown’s meditations on the essence of each object: “the important thing about the sky is that is it always there. It is true that it is blue, and high, and full of clouds, and made of air. But the important thing about the sky is that it is always there.” The book invites the reader to see the mundane objects of their everyday lives in a
new and unfamiliar light.