Brown gives particular attention to a large number of animals that populate the room: “two kittens with mittens” and a “little mouse.” The room also contains a picture of a “cow jumping over a moon” and “bears on chairs.” Here, Brown twists our preconceptions of settings-where the internal now is wild, but the external (“the moon” and “the stars”) serene. The first half of Brown’s magnum opus is entirely devoted to the contents of “the great green room.” As symbolic items such as a “balloon” and a “telephone” are described, our protagonist bunny, oppressively tucked into bed, resists the confines of sleep. The book opens as a young bunny prepares for sleep in his bedroom. Plot OverviewĪ bunny says goodnight to the moon and other things.
Margaret Wise Brown’s work, which has been translated into countless languages and has sold over 40 million copies, still resonates with children’s librarians and counter-culture revolutionaries for its duality as good-natured poetry and allegory of human alienation. The book was met with critical and commercial success. In Goodnight Moon, Brown explores the relationship between a young bunny and his material possessions set against the backdrop of the Cold War. Margaret Wise Brown, renowned children’s book author, made it her life’s goal to both comfort the youth of the era and expose the flaws of human advancement through her didactic work. America after the Great War was full of economic prosperity and social upheaval.
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