6/4/2023 0 Comments Goodnight moon book![]() Her YA memoir in verse, Brown Girl, Dreaming, novel for adults, Another Brooklyn, and picture book Each Kindness, are deeply beloved to me I also teach them to my library science graduate students, and have hosted Woodson at the high school library direct. ![]() I began asking other writers how they feel about the book, reaching out to literary luminaries like Jacqueline Woodson, a 2020 MacArthur Fellow, who has published books for children, adolescents and adults, and has won top awards for young people’s literature. These experiences sharpened my hunger to revisit a childhood favorite. Thomas Marshburn reading the bedtime classic from space, drifting through the air like the red balloon in the story. As a queer writer, mom and youth librarian, I was delighted by this novel and the fact that more writers are penning great “parenthood lit”-and that this one also illuminates an unsung queer literary heroine! I also viewed a video of NASA astronaut Dr. This book led me to Julia Fine’s boldly feminist novel, T he Upstairs House, the story of a depressed new mother who is haunted by Brown and her female lover, avant-garde performer Michael Strange. I celebrated the occasion by reading Amy Gary’s fantastic biography, In the Great Green Room, written after Gary discovered hundreds of unpublished manuscripts by Brown in her sister’s attic. ![]() ![]() ![]() This fall, Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Clement Hurd, turns 75. ![]()
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