‘Goodnight Moon’ author was a bisexual rebel who hated kids

http://nypost.com ^ | 01/07/2017 | Susannah Cahaln

[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of a new biography “In the Great Green Room” by Amy Gary, a Brown-obsessive, who unearthed a treasure trove of her unpublished works, diaries and letters and has devoted her career to continuing Brown’s.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.

[GOPJ]

I’m with you. My grandkids loved the book... the proof is in the pudding ... not in the chef.

[GOPJ]

I’m with you. My grandkids loved the book... the proof is in the pudding ... not in the antics of the chef.

[mumblypeg]

True.

[SuziQ]

Whatever her personal proclivities, it is a sweet book.