Goodnight Moon [SEP] illustrator
Goodnight Moon
Goodnight Moon is an American children's book written by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Clement Hurd. It was published on September 3, 1947, and is a highly acclaimed bedtime story. It features a bunny saying "good night" to everything around: "Goodnight room. Goodnight moon. Goodnight cow jumping over the moon. Goodnight light, and the red balloon ...".
This book is the second in Brown and Hurd's "classic series", which also includes "The Runaway Bunny
book author and illustrator, and referred in an interview to the "wonderful aura of creativity" surrounding his father and the Vermont farm that was their home.
Legacy.
A doctored/altered photo of Hurd was included in the 60th anniversary republication of "Goodnight Moon" with a cigarette removed from his hand, an incident of tobacco bowdlerization that caused controversy over publication standards.
Hurd's work, as well as that of his wife and son, were featured at the Stamford Museum & Nature Center in the 2004