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.

Street view of Goodnight House at Fort Makers, featuring hand-painted curtains by Naomi S. By 2020 however, the book was listed as one of the most borrowed books in the library’s history. The New York Public Library did not carry the title until 1972 because librarian Anne Carroll Moore hated Goodnight Moon when it was initially published.

You can even purchase Goodnight Moon-inspired pieces for your own home in the studio’s online shop.ĭespite the children’s book’s New York origins, New York City has not always loved Goodnight Moon. It is believed that the fireplace inside the farmhouse, inspired the fireplace pictured on the cover of Goodnight Moon.

The Charles Street Farmhouse is now located at 121 Charles Street in Greenwich Village, but it was moved there from the Upper East Side in 1967. Brown wrote the children’s book while living at the Charles Street Farmhouse, a wooden house in Manhattan built around 1810. The Goodnight House exhibit honors both Brown and Goodnight Moon’s New York roots. Charles Street Farmhouse where Brown wrote Goodnight Moon. These modern takes on the children’s book written in 1947 demonstrate the childlike attitudes that persist between the two eras. Some of the artwork and homegoods within the Goodnight House exhibit include a rockingchair and cloud-shaped bedside table created by CHIAOZZA (Adam Frezza & Terri Chiao) and a ceramic mantlepiece clock created by Keith Simpson.

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