In 1996, the New York Public Library, which did not add the book to its own collection until 1972, included "Goodnight Moon" on its Books of the Century list. Today, "Goodnight Moon" has sold a total ...

For 75 years, parents and children alike have enjoyed winding down for the night with author Margaret Wise Brown and illustrator Clement Hurd’s Goodnight Moon. Readers can now become part of the story ...

Published in 1947, Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown, with illustrations by Clement Hurd, remains a treasured bedtime ...

Once upon a time there was...A telephone. A red balloon. A comb and a brush, and bowl full of mush. Not much of a story, you say? So said Anne Carroll Moore, the children's librarian at the New York ...

Bruce Handy, in his 2017 book about children’s literature, “Wild Things,” confesses that he always imagined the writer Margaret Wise Brown to be a dowdy old lady “with an ample lap”—just like the ...

Goodnight Moon is part of the fabric of baby lit–and for good reason. It’s both heartwarming and frankly, it slaps. Chances are you’ve read it so many times you can recite it by memory while half ...

Remember the joy involved in reading Goodnight Moon at bedtime? The cozy green room, the big red balloon, the little old lady whispering "hush?" Well, get ready to relive that magic IRL, because the ...

Anyone who has ever dabbled in the world of babysitting — perhaps as a high school endeavor to generate pocket cash or involuntarily by being born an older sibling — understands the inestimable power ...