Goodnight June: A Novel

Goodnight June: A Novel

The <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Blackberry Winter</i> imagines the inspiration for <i>Goodnight Moon</i><br /><br /><i>Goodnight Moon </i>by Margaret Wise Brown (<i>Goodnight Songs</i>) is an adored childhood classic, but its real origins are lost to history. In <i>Goodnight June,</i> Sarah Jio offers a suspenseful and heartfelt take on how the “great green room” might have come to be.<br /><br />June Andersen is professionally successful, but her personal life is marred by unhappiness. Unexpectedly, she is called to settle her great-aunt Ruby’s estate and determine the fate of Bluebird Books, the children’s bookstore Ruby founded in the 1940s. Amidst the store’s papers, June stumbles upon letters between her great-aunt and the late Margaret Wise Brown—and steps into the pages of American literature.