Not Only "Good Night"

The Nordbergs love books!  Young and old.

But my favorite memory of a child's book was Good Night Moon.

Every night, sitting in the big rocker with three kids piled on his lap, Rob would read our copy of Goodnight Moon.  Ethan would be in his crib, but eventually the trio would be rotated so the oldest would be lying on their bed.

"In the great green room...."  We used to have it memorized, and probably could resurrect it with a little prompting!

It's frayed now and loosing it's binding.  I notice that our hard cover edition is slightly smaller than the current edition and the page at the end is ripped, but it has remained on the bedroom bookshelf for almost 40 years now.

We noticed in the NYTimes Weekend Arts section that a previous unpublished book by Margaret Wise Brown is soon to be released.

 "Good Day, Good Night" is being brought out in October.  It's not meant to be a sequel.

 I was surprised to find out that "Goodnight Moon" did not sell well during Brown's lifetime.  It was written in 1944 and published in 1947.  But,currently there have been 32 million copies sold in various different formats.

Margaret died suddenly at the age of 42.   But she had published 60 books in her lifetime.

I'm excited to see this next book about embracing the daytime too.  But there seemed to be a little cautionary caveat,

"Good Day, Good Night" has a lovely and simple story that is bound to appeal to small children, even if it doesn't match the seamless rhythm and honey-smooth story progression of "Goodnight Moon".  Maybe nothing can."