![]() ![]() ![]() She struggled, however, to write for adults, the biographer said. "At the same time, she was part of her time and children's books were viewed as second rate in terms of artistic achievement in general, and the books for babies were at the low, low end of that spectrum." Understanding children's needsÄ«rown was a poet by "temperament," according to Marcus, and had ambitions to write for the New Yorker. "I think deep down understood that what she was doing was significant and that she was reaching young children in a way that had probably never happened before in books," said Leonard Marcus, author of the biography Margaret Wise Brown: Awakened by the Moon. "One of the things that makes it such a perennially beautiful book is that the rhythms and cadences of bedtime are perfectly caught in it."Äespite the fact that Goodnight Moon has sold more than 40 million copies and continues to top best-seller lists, it was a new concept for children's literature when it was first published 75 years ago. "It does feel like a kind of incantation," said Lissa Paul, director of the PhD program in interdisciplinary humanities at Brock University. Margaret Wise Brown is the author of Goodnight Moon and many other children's books, including The Runaway Bunny. ![]()
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