An essay celebrating the story’s 75th anniversary prompted an outpouring from our readers. By Elisabeth Egan When The Times published my essay, “The Enduring Wisdom of Goodnight Moon,” last week, the ...

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 ...