The picture book 'Goodnight Moon' was published 75 years ago today — and has lulled millions of children to sleep, in more than two dozen languages.
wrote,"in these days of hurry and strain, a book for little children which creates an atmosphere of peace and calm is something for which to be thankful."But, despite Nordstrom's efforts, Moore was not impressed. The New York Public Library not only excludedfrom its recommended children's book list, it didn't even acquire it for the NYPL system.
"What they didn't understand was, [Brown] went straight to the child and that sort of basic human need," says Jean McGinley, vice president and associate publisher for HarperCollins' Children's Books. McGinley calls Brown a"trailblazer" who"broke a formula" and incorporated"social emotional learning...before anybody else."
was something of a glamourous, wild-child: a spirited, creative and experimental writer known for wearing furs and driving a convertible. She loved rabbits and kept them as pets.is another Brown/Hurd collaboration. But she was also active in the sport of"beagling" in which runners race through the woods after beagles chasing down hares or rabbits — and not to kiss them goodnight."She was not like a sweet, cute children's book writer," remarks Thacher Hurd wryly.
But Brown expressed that she was very much in touch with her inner child. She once said that, to be a children's writer"one has to love not children but what children love." And Brown did understand and give children what they wanted. In addition to writing more than 100 stories for them, she championed and edited other children's book writers and illustrators.
"A book can make a child laugh or feel clear-and-happy-headed as he follows a simple rhythm to its logical end," Brown once."It can jog him with the unexpected and comfort him with the familiar, lift him for a few minutes from his own problems of shoelaces that won't tie and busy parents and mysterious clock-time, into the world of a bug or a bear or a bee or a boy living in the timeless world of story.
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