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The Important Book

First edition
Author	Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator	Leonard Weisgard
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Children's literature
Publisher	Harper & Brothers
Publication date	1949
Media type	Print
Pages	24
ISBN	978-0064432276

The Important Book is a 1949 children's picture book written by American author Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Leonard Weisgard. The book describes various common entities and describes some of their major attributes in brief poetic passages, beginning and ending with what Brown considers the key attribute:

The important thing about rain is
that it is wet.
It falls out of the sky,
and it sounds like rain,
and makes things shiny,
and it does not taste like anything,
and is the color of air.
But the important thing about rain is
that it is wet.

— Margaret Wise Brown, The Important Book