Goodnight moon 19477/6/2023 “A student of Mitchell’s in the mid-1930s, Margaret Wise Brown arrived at Bank Street a gifted but mercurial and undisciplined writer. The Executor flying over the forest moon” About the author, Margaret Wise Brown The book has inspired over 20 parody titles including Goodnight Goon: A Petrifying Parody, Goodnight Batcave, Goodnight Loon, Goodnight Lab, Goodnight iPad: A Parody for the Next Generation, Goodnight Putter: A Bedtime Parody for the Golfer, Goodnight Unicorn: A Magical Parody, AND Goodnight Forest Moon: A StarWars parody available as a free download.It was not in the collections of the New York Public Library until the 1970s because one of the most influential librarians of the time, Anne Carrol Moore, disliked it.Illustrator Clement Hurd said in 1983 that initially the book was to be published using the pseudonym “Memory Ambrose” for Brown, with his illustrations credited to “Hurricane Jones”.In 1935, the author began her writing for children as a student in Lucy Sprague Mitchell’s school then called The Bureau of Educational Experiments, now known as Bank Street College of Education, a school for training teachers.To date it has sold over 2 million copies and has never been out of print. Goodnight Moon was not a best seller when it was published.
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