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[proximoception]

Reading update:

1. Goodnight Moon
2. Goodnight Moon

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63. Goodnight Moon


Kidding. But mostly also not kidding.

Goodnight Moon's mysteries have a Lost tinge.

Comments

[nightspore.livejournal.com]

Karen Horney said that The Runaway Bunny was one of the most important children's books ever. But I prefer Goodnight Moon. IIRC, Margaret Wise Brown wrote the words in a day or less, and Clement Hurd, who was a student of Fernand Leger, and whose illustrations are I think really wonderful, spent a year doing the paintings.

How closer than Frank to the cosmic bone
Cut the bold paintings of Fernand Leger!

[mendaciloquent.livejournal.com]

All of Margaret Wise Brown's books I've read are a little creepy; I think David Lynch had them in mind when he did his rabbit-people shorts. My World is my favorite at the moment.

When he was still too young to understand things, I used to read The Runaway Bunny to my son, but I'd make up the words as I went along, usually turning it into a tale about a cannibalistic rabbit which devises new ways of catching and devouring its children.