Goodnight Moon has been adapted for stage and screen, been featured on The Simpsons, parodied, and given a special reading by LeVar Burton to Neil deGrasse Tyson. You don't even think about it, but it is extremely sort of open and wide and a big feeling to it," reflects Hurd. Good night noises everywhere.' It's very expansive. Today it's considered a classic but Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd's Goodnight Moon was not an overnight sensation. "It mirrors what's happening for the child, but it also gives them a feeling of some other world, something else that's sort of a larger, more peaceful world," says Thacher Hurd, Clement's son and himself a children's book author and illustrator. 3, 1947, wins its readers with a soothing series of goodnights to the everyday objects in "the great green room" before bedtime. Written by Margaret Wise Brown, with illustrations by Clement Hurd, the picture book, which has sold more than 40 million copies since its publication on Sept.
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