Goodnight, Moon 2026-05-16

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Can’t do Audrey Hepburn (the original) or Frank Sinatra, so:

Although the version I heard on the radio, falling asleep in the back of the old Blue Buick, was probably by Andy Williams.

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Sorry if I’ve missed anywhere that you might have explained the Goodnight Moon reference. Not sure if it is the children’s book by Margaret Wise of the same title but the book is what I think of when I see these posts. A wee story of censorship and some of Wise’s method and her much too young death:
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/undertheinfluence/the-new-york-city-library-on…

I did publish an image from the book in the very first post (May 1), but thanks for the link:

Goodnight Moon was a small revolution in children’s books, as it had no real plot and wasn’t rooted in a fairy tale, as virtually all children’s books were at the time. As a matter of fact, the New York City Library refused to carry the book for that very reason, calling it “an unbearably sentimental piece of work.” The library didn’t reverse its decision until 1973, 26 years after Goodnight Moon was first published.

It’s not!