Goodnight Moon

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A beautiful, calming bedtime story. A rabbit child is going to sleep, a grandmother rabbit watches and some kittens play on the rug by the fire. The story is safe, soporific and reassuring. I loved the funny details, like the bowl of mush and the saying goodnight to objects. This is an unusual mix of traditional style illustrations and crazy clashing colours. Dip your fingertips into the white paint. Press them to the blue circle. Press firmly and release, leaving a thumbprint behind. One of Bank Street's early ground-breaking revelations in children's speech patterns was Mitchell's observation that "communication is not the earliest impulse that leads to the use of language." Instead, young kids were more interested in the "rhythm, sound quality and patterns of sound." Brown certainly understood this fact. Her work at the Bank Street Writers Laboratory showed a particular flair for rhythmic language that she would later use to hypnotic effect in Goodnight Moon. “Probably she has the most consistent and genuine interest in language of the group, perhaps of all our students. Her product, though slight, always shows sensitivity to form, sound and rhythm,” Mitchell wrote in one evaluation. 2. Goodnight Moon represented a new kind of children's literature: The "here-and-now." The important thing about a spoon is that you eat with it. It's like a little shovel, You hold it in your hand, You can put it in your mouth, It isn't flat, It's hollow, And it spoons things up. But the important thing about a spoon is that you eat with it." (The Important Book, 1949)

Brown’s most aesthetically provocative book was also one of her most adorable: in 1946, she published “ Little Fur Family,” in collaboration with Garth Williams, who later illustrated E. B. White’s “Charlotte’s Web.” For the first edition of “Little Fur Family,” which had a print run of seventy-five thousand copies, Brown insisted that the book’s cover be wrapped entirely in the fur of New Zealand rabbits. The result prompted one child to try to feed his dinner to his copy of the book and another to offer her copy to a pet kitten as a companion. Marcus, the historian, told me that Brown’s use of real fur was quite possibly a nod to the work of the Surrealist artist Méret Oppenheim, who, for her 1936 work “Object (or Luncheon in Fur),” covered a teacup, a saucer, and a spoon with the fur of a gazelle. The book, like the leopard- and zebra-skin sofas that Brown bought to decorate her New York apartments, was mischievous, erotic, and a little sinister.Perhaps it is the author’s brittle and alienated personality which enabled her to empathise with how little children would feel reassured. Margaret Wise Brown once said that she considered the purpose of children’s books to be: Just a few months before she died suddenly from an embolism following emergency surgery in Nice, France, the 42-year-old Brown—who at the time was engaged to a much younger man—drafted a will. In it, she left the royalties to Goodnight Moon (and 68 other titles) to a young boy named Albert Clarke. She had befriended his mother through a colleague at Bank Street and lived near the family on East 71st Street in Manhattan. 11. Goodnight Moon's legacy endures. US, HarperCollins ISBN 0-694-00361-1, Pub date January 23, 2007, Board book 60th anniversary edition The University of Minnesota Press published the 2015 book Goodnight Loon, full of Minnesota Northwoods language. The original text's bunny is replaced by the university's mascot, Goldy Gopher. [38] [39]

Cooper, Susan (1981). Betsy Hearne; Marilyn Kay (eds.). Celebrating Children's Books: Essays on Children's Literature in Honor of Zena Sutherland. New York: Lathrop, Lee, and Shepard Books. pp. 15. ISBN 0-688-00752-X. Time Warner (July 15, 1999). "Fairy Tales, Bedtime Classics and Other Magical Stories Lead HBO's Fall Family Programming Lineup" . Retrieved March 28, 2018. It tells the story of a rabbit getting ready for bed. Goodnight to the toy house, a young mouse, “a comb and a brush and a bowl full of mush and a quiet old lady who is whispering ‘hush.’”

This is one of the books from James Mustich's 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die A Life-Changing List. Bird, Elizabeth (July 6, 2012). "Top 100 Picture Books Poll Results". "A Fuse #8 Production". Blog. School Library Journal (blog.schoollibraryjournal.com). Archived from the original on December 4, 2012 . Retrieved August 19, 2012. Bernstein, Robin (October 2020). ""'You Do It!': Going-to-Bed Books and the Scripts of Children's Literature" ". PMLA. 145 (5): 878. The Goodnight Moon Game, by Briar Patch, is a memory game for very young children. It won a 1998 Parents' Choice Gold Award [33] and a 1999 Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Platinum Award. [34]

The January 13, 2002 edition of the comic strip Zits featured Jeremy Duncan, the main character, reciting a parody of the book; his room and curtains resembled those in the book. [35] By the time Brown met Strange, who was twenty years her senior, Strange had married her third husband, a prominent lawyer, and was spending much of her time dining at women’s clubs and moaning away hangovers. They began a torrid affair. Eventually, Strange left her husband and persuaded Brown to move into an apartment across from hers, in a building on the Upper East Side, near Gracie Mansion. The lovers entered and left each other’s residence as they pleased, and shared a butler named Pietro.Hurd, Clement. "Remembering Margaret Wise Brown." Horn Book Magazine Vol. 59 (5). October 1983. 553-560. 552. Survivors of an extraterrestrial organism's killings in 2017 science-fiction film Life read excerpts from the book. [40] [41] [42] [43] [44] Wyatt, Edward (November 17, 2005). " 'Goodnight Moon,' Smokeless Version". New York Times . Retrieved November 23, 2005.