7 things you never knew about the kids' book Goodnight Moon

I somehow managed to get through my first daughter's early childhood without ever reading Margaret Wise Brown's classic bedtime story, Goodnight Moon. Eventually, my youngest came along, and she turned out to be a terrible sleeper. I tried just about everything to get that girl to sleep, and that's how Goodnight Moon finally found a place on our bookshelf. Though Margaret Wise Brown penned the book back in 1947, I don't remember ever owning a copy as a child. So when I cracked the cover in desperation when my daughter was around two years old, all I knew was that