The Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown is a lesson in observation. In my opinion, this is a book for the young artist learning to see, hear, taste, and smell carefully. This is a book about paying attention. It invites readers to slow down and focus.
Leonard Weisgard's illustrations have minimal distraction. The two-page spread about grass has only grass and a sign for the text. “But the important thing about grass is that it is green,” writes Margaret Wise Brown, and that’s all we see—green—many shades of green. In this age of multi-tasking, busy schedules, and video images that last only a few seconds on screen, we need this book to remind us to pause. Pause to fill our senses with the awesome wonders of the natural world. And as Margaret Wise Brown says on the final pages, “But the important thing about you is that you are you.”
This book is read aloud online by Mrs. Moon’s Library.
The Picture Book Talk resource for this story on TPT is here. It includes links to resources by oher sellers on TPT.
The Picture Book Talk resource for this story on Classful is here.
