Margaret Wise Brown’s Wonderful Storybook: 25 Stories & Poems

The life-lesson “red means stop, green means go” is imparted with considerable charm and magic in Margaret Wise brown’s book, which has everything from cars and trucks to dogs and bright red squirrels obeying the law of traffic lights. Leonard Weisgard’s graphic illustrations, with their rich brown and black undertones, lend a wonderful geometric sturdiness to this tale intended for good citizens ages 3 to 6.