Pussy Willow

Name: Pussy Willow
Author: Unknown Author
ISBN: 9780307624482

by Unknown Author

1951Western Publishing Company, IncorporatedISBN 9780307624482

Fiction Children's

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About this book

I added this same description to the Golden Book Edition page for this book. I had this book as a child around 1953 and 1954. It was in a picture book format about 10" x 12" and a 1/4" thick. I have looked for it for years. As an adult, I realized the story took the kitten through the seasons of the year looking for her lost pussywillows. All I remembered from it as a child, was the closing line: "Anything you lose is always where you find it." She had been a kitten who fell asleep playing underneath some pussywillow branches in bloom. When she awoke they were gone, and she went looking for them. The pictures and story took her through summer, fall, and winter, until she fell asleep from exhaustion. By this time it was spring, and when she awoke, she was underneath the blooming pussywillow branches. At least that's the way I remember it.

Publication Details

Publisher: Western Publishing Company, Incorporated
Published: 1951
ISBN: 9780307624482

About Unknown Author

Margaret Wise Brown was born in Brooklyn, NY. While working as a teacher at the Bank Street Experimental School, she started writing books for children. Margaret was a prolific writer. Over 100 of her stories were published as picture books during her lifetime. She also wrote articles about writing for children, adapted classics, ghost wrote stories and many of her stories appear in anthologies. On November 13, 1952 at the age of 42 she died from an embolism, following a operation while on vacation in France. Posthumously several stories were at publishers ready for publication. In recent years many of Margaret's works have been reprinted. Many were previously published as stories in collections and anthologies; some are from unfinished manuscripts.