A rabbit says goodnight and outlasts the librarian who hated it.

Banned

1947 - New York - The book was excluded from the New York Public Library from publication date to 1972 due to children's librarian Anne Carroll Moore disliking it.

Sources

Brown, Margaret Wise and Clement Hurd (illus). Goodnight Moon. Harper and Row Publishers. 1947.

The de Grummond Children's Literature Collection. "MARGARET WISE BROWN PAPERS - Biographical Sketch." University of Southern Mississippi. Hattiesburg, MS. Retrieved on January 7, 2021 from https://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/degrum/public_html/html/research/findaids/DG1129f.html

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Margretwisebrown.com. "Biography." Retrieved on January 7, 2021 from https://web.archive.org/web/20010412045645/http://margaretwisebrown.com/long_bio.htm

Mcdowell, Edwin. "Clement G. Hurd, 80, Illustrator Of Many Children's Books, Dies." New York Times. February 10, 1988. Retrieved on January 8, 2021 from https://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/10/obituaries/clement-g-hurd-80-illustrator-of-many-children-s-books-dies.html

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