‘Goodnight Moon’ Turns 75

For over 75 years, Goodnight Moon has now soothed millions of children to sleep in more than two dozen languages. Written by Margaret Wise Brown, with illustrations by Clement Hurd, the picture book has sold more than 40 million copies since its publication on Sept. 3, 1947.

Thacher Hurd, Clement’s son and a children’s book author and illustrator himself, stated: “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…Good night stars and good night air. Good night noises everywhere.’ It’s very expansive. You don’t even think about it, but it is extremely sort of open and wide and a big feeling to it.”

Source: NPR