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Goodnight Moon, the classic 1947 children’s title that acts as a hymnal to the night skies through the eyes of a somnolent rabbit. It’s endured through generations, selling millions of copies and regularly making lists of the most popular library titles.
But from 1947 through 1972, the New York Public Library one of the most revered stockpiles of books in the United States didn’t carry
Goodnight Moon. Its charms were lost on Anne Carroll Moore, the children’s librarian of the famed institution. And so she simply refused to stock it.