Posted on 01/07/2017 6:11:05 PM PST by heterosupremacist
“In the great green room/there was a telephone/and a red balloon/and a picture of a cow jumping over the moon . . .”cow jumping over the moon . . .”
For childhood readers of the classic “Goodnight Moon,” there is no more nostalgic image. The simple, rhythmic language and the bold drawings captured the hearts and minds of the public when “Goodnight Moon” was published in 1947. It has sold over 14 million copies and is one of the most beloved children’s books of all time.
But it’s likely few could even name the book’s author, let alone know her wild backstory.
She was a hyper-prolific writer who changed the face of modern picture books; a children’s book author who didn’t particularly like children; an avid rabbit hunter who penned the classic story “The Runaway Bunny”; a great beauty who never married but flitted from relationship to relationship with men and at least one woman.
Margaret Wise Brown is the deserving subject of a new biography “In the Great Green Room” by Amy Gary, a Brown-obsessive, who unearthed a treasure trove of her unpublished works, diaries and letters and has devoted her career to continuing Brown’s.
Born in Brooklyn in 1910 and raised on Long Island, Brown came from wealthy but distracted parents who bickered and largely ignored their three children. Brown spent her youth in boarding schools, holding on to a vague aspiration to become America’s next great novelist.
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How about “Blueberries for Sal”? “Everyone Poops”? “Make Way for Ducklings”? “If You Give a Moose a Muffin...” and/or “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie...”? “Grandfather Twilight”? And the interactive “Pat the Bunny”?
The most subversive Children’s book is “The Rainbow Fish”. It indoctrinates children into accepting Socialism.
To promote her as a rebel liberal icon ahead of her time, and to possibly boost book sales.
“One of the wise ones to keep their proclivities out of their prose.”
Assuming there is any truth to the claim at all. Homosexuals are -always- claiming that so-and-so, who can no longer speak for themselves, was one of them.
LMFAO!
Willa Cather never married, but had close women friends. That does not make her a lesbian —— except to lesbian propagandists.
True. I really don’t need to know this either.
Never heard of it. The niece was probably too old for it.
It was published 60 years ago.
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Right up there’s with the trash about Jefferson and Hemings. Some things are better left unsaid, true or scurrilous.
I looked at the Wikipedia entry, and should have gone to B&N or Amazon. Wiki was heavily HBO, and I thought it said 1998.
No problem.
My friends and I had our kids in the late 50s and 60s and didn’t read Good Night Moon to them. It was never mentioned.
The popularity seemed to come later——and may have been regional.
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Childrens books have gone downhill
Too funny!
My younger kids love “Make Way For Ducklings”. They also love “Gaston” and my three year old daughter loves “Madeline”. Any of the Llama Llama or How do Dinosaurs.... books are popular with them as well. My My older boys liked the Arch Books (bible stories) and my daughters liked everything.
“Goodnight Moon” wasn’t a hit with any of my kids. I never got its appeal.
Funny.
That's for sure.
Truly ******* hilarious [tasteless, but ******* hilarious]
Ugh. They’re crap. That’s my professional opinion, having taught elementary school, and you can quote me on that, too!
My cousin homeschooled her children and used Mcguffey Readers. Those were amazing!
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