Intro

Everything you didn’t know about Goodnight Moon, the book that’s put children to bed for generations — and the woman who wrote it. "She could write very well for young children because she remembered exactly what it was like to be one of them."

Leonard Marcus’ book is Margaret Wise Brown: Awakened by the Moon

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