A rabbit says goodnight and outlasts the librarian who hated it.
Banned
1947 - New York - The book was excluded from the New York Public Library from publication date to 1972 due to children's librarian Anne Carroll Moore disliking it.
Sources
Brown, Margaret Wise and Clement Hurd (illus). Goodnight Moon. Harper and Row Publishers. 1947.
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Margretwisebrown.com. "Biography." Retrieved on January 7, 2021 from https://web.archive.org/web/20010412045645/http://margaretwisebrown.com/long_bio.htm
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