The udder problem. Goodnight Moon had its own kind of "here-and-now" spirit. But for a children's book to be commercially successful in 1947, it needed the approval of the New York Public Library ...

Photograph by Wes Battoclette. I n the great green room there is a telephone, and a red balloon, and a picture of the cow jumping over the moon. This isn’t a bedtime story, it’s Blue Marble Books in ...