He may live in a pineapple under the sea, but SpongeBob SquarePants will soon be traveling across the country. The popular cartoon character will be featured on new stamps designed by the U.S. Postal ...

The great green room, red balloon, and cow jumping over the moon that exist in Margaret Wise Brown’s Goodnight Moon find their fictional home on bookshelves across the world. Now, those who yearn to ...

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 ...

Goodnight, society as we knew it. Margaret Wise Brown’s 1947 children’s book “Goodnight Moon” has been reimagined for the time of the coronavirus. “Good Morning Zoom,” a parody version of the book by ...

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 ...

Without mystery, hero, handsome prince or fairy godmother — Goodnight Moon has now lulled millions of children to sleep, in more than two dozen languages, for 75 years. Written by Margaret Wise Brown, ...

Beloved children's book author, bisexual, whirlwind romancer, mistress-- did we mention beloved children's book author? A new book about Margaret Wise Brown, most commonly known for penning Goodnight ...

It’s the first book many babies receive as a gift, and one of the few that parents will keep when their child is grown. Why does this 75-year-old story have such staying power? Credit... Supported by ...

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 ...

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 ...