GOOD NIGHT ART TEXT SERIES
The illustrations alternate between 2-page black-and-white spreads of objects and 2-page color spreads of the room, like the other books in the series this was a common cost-saving technique at the time. The book begins at 7:00 PM, and ends at 8:10 PM, with each spread being spaced 10 minutes apart, as measured by the two clocks in the room, and reflected (improbably) in the rising moon. The text is a rhyming poem, describing an anthropomorphic bunny's bedtime ritual of saying "good night" to various inanimate and living objects in the bunny's bedroom: a red balloon, a pair of socks, the bunny's dollhouse, a bowl of mush, and two kittens, among others despite the kittens, a mouse is present in each spread. released a Goodnight Moon interactive app. In 2010, HarperCollins used artwork from the book to produce Goodnight Moon's ABC: An Alphabet Book. In 2008, Thacher Hurd used his father's artwork from Goodnight Moon to produce Goodnight Moon 123: A Counting Book. 2007, US, HarperCollins ISBN 1-1, Pub date 23 January 2007, Board book 60th anniversary edition.
1997, US, HarperCollins ISBN 0-06-027504-9, Pub date 28 February 1997, Hardback 50th anniversary edition.1991, US, HarperFestival ISBN 1-1, Pub date 30 September 1991, board book.In addition to several octavo and duodecimo paperback editions, Goodnight Moon is available as a board book and in "jumbo" edition designed for use with large groups. HarperCollins has said it will likely replace the picture with a different, unaltered photo of Hurd in future editions. " HarperCollins had the reluctant permission of Hurd's son, Thacher Hurd, but the younger Hurd said the photo of Hurd with his arm and fingers extended, holding nothing, "looks slightly absurd to me". Its editor-in-chief for children's books, Kate Jackson, said, "It is potentially a harmful message to very young. In 2005, publisher HarperCollins digitally altered the photograph of illustrator Hurd, which had been on the book for at least twenty years, to remove a cigarette. Clarke, who squandered the millions of dollars the book earned him, said that Brown was his mother, a claim others dismiss. īrown, who died in 1952, bequeathed the royalties to the book (among many others) to Albert Clarke, who was the nine-year-old son of a neighbor when Brown died. Goodnight Moon has been translated into French, Spanish, Dutch, Chinese, Japanese, Catalan, Hebrew, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Korean, Hmong, and German. As of 2007, the book sells about 800,000 copies annually and by 2017 had cumulatively sold an estimated 48 million copies. Annual sales grew from about 1,500 copies in 1953 to almost 20,000 in 1970 by 1990, the total number of copies sold exceeded 4 million. During the post-World War II Baby Boom years, it slowly became a bestseller. The NYPL and other libraries did not acquire it at first. Anne Carroll Moore, the influential children's librarian at the New York Public Library (NYPL), regarded it as "overly sentimental". Goodnight Moon had poor initial sales: only 6,000 copies were sold upon initial release in fall 1947. Illustrator Clement Hurd said in 1983 that initially the book was to be published using the pseudonym "Memory Ambrose" for Brown, with his illustrations credited to "Hurricane Jones".
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