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They're a pleasure to read - precise and rhythmic - words that don't rhyme still harmonize so beautifully that even the most halting reader can become a poet, telling her child a blessing.Ĭlose overlay Buy Featured Book Title Goodnight Moon Author Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd Goodnight Moon, and indeed most of Brown's exceptional and quirky bibliography, are that perfect marriage of mesmerizing for children and tantalizing for adults. One became so battered that it fell apart at the old lady whispering hush - split into two parts, invocation ("In the great green room") and benediction ("Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere"). In my own nursery no less than four copies have passed through.

Of the more than 100 published and unpublished books written by the intrepid and prolific Margaret Wise Brown, there is probably none more well-worn than Goodnight Moon. Weekend Edition books editor Barrie Hardymon talks with Lulu Garcia-Navarro about the thread of adventure that runs through Brown's life and work. And, it's been 75 years since The Runaway Bunny first left home. A new biography by Amy Gary, called The Great Green Room, has just been released, along with a previously unpublished picture book called North, South, East, West. She died suddenly at age 42, leaving behind a body of unpublished work.Ĭhildren's book doyenne Margaret Wise Brown is having a big week. Margaret Wise Brown is the author of beloved children's books such as Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny.