Margaret Wise Brown
Margaret Wise Brown
What is this author’s agenda???
I could not care less. The prose of Goodnight Moon are like a lullaby. Reading it to my kids was always a pleasure.
I think I’ve heard this before. But I guess I wiped it out of my mind, since I didn’t want to detract from “Goodnight Moon.”
One of the wise ones to keep their proclivities out of their prose.
I never heard of Goodnight Moon until I had my own kids. But my absolutely favorite story when very young was one of hers - Two Little Miners
https://www.amazon.com/Two-Little-Miners-Golden-Book/dp/B0007E5RHU
It has wonderfully un-PC language and their predicament is resolved using dynamite. It was also the first book illustrated by Richard Scary.
It’s possible to not particularly like kids and yet delight in making them happy. I find kids rather irritating, always have, even when I was one myself, but I have a business that sells certain things that many kids find both educational and fun, and it does kind of give me a warm glow to know that they will have been delighted to have unwrapped them as presents and have always gone out of my way to try and do better deals for parents with kids. Maybe she had a similar attitude, she liked kids in her own way, just not particularly them company, and didn’t really know how to interact with them.
I was born in 1947 and had never heard of this book or author. My oldest son was born in 1966, and at some point he had the book, which we used to read to him. I can’t remember if the book was a gift from my mother, or if I had actually bought it for him. I just remember the title. When I was growing up, my favorite books were “The Five Chinese Brothers” by Claire Huchet Bishop, and published in 1938. Another book we loved as kids was “Mr. Snitzel’s Cookies” by Jane Flory. I believe it was published in 1950. When I was a bit older I enjoyed reading the Doctor Doolittle series written by Hugh Lofting, and published between 1920 and 1952, and also the Freddy the Pig series by Walter R. Brooks, published between 1927 and 1958.
A personal failure and biographical stalker who is far into projection.
“... a bisexual rebel...”
Translation from scumbag into human speech:
A sexually amoral degenerate.
“Goodnight Moon” was published in 1947.
Never heard of it.
This wouldn’t be a story absent the lesbian angle.
I always thought the bunny household was very unwise to have pet cats.
I read the book. It’s okay, average, nothing special. I fail to see why it is popular.
All I remember was turning the page to find the mouse in the next illustration.
Oscar Wilde wrote beautiful and sweet children’s books. He was morally depraved and irresponsible. He was also a believing Christian who received the sacraments on his deathbed. We cannot judge people’s hearts, souls or intellects by broad labels.
She wrote some freaky weird kids’ books. I have some of them. One is sweet, with the coolest 1930s drawings, with animals going to sleep, and airplanes in their hangars going to sleep.
The best one we have is the Fur Book. About 2 inches small, and covered in grey soft fur. It’s about a fur family, and it reads like she was on opium, very weird, some grammar errors, making very little sense, with freaky pictures of the tiny fur family. It’s like an acid trip for four year olds. Somehow I treasure it because it is so different.
She looks fairly hot to me
I read Goodnight, Moon to my kids 10-15 years ago when they were younger but I don’t recall ever hearing of it before then. I loved the Babar books when I was young as well as a book called Caps for Sale. These were still in print when my kids were little and I enjoyed reading these books to them.
Whatever her personal proclivities, it is a sweet book.