![]() ![]() ![]() These experiences sharpened my hunger to revisit a childhood favorite. Thomas Marshburn reading the bedtime classic from space, drifting through the air like the red balloon in the story. As a queer writer, mom and youth librarian, I was delighted by this novel and the fact that more writers are penning great “parenthood lit”-and that this one also illuminates an unsung queer literary heroine! I also viewed a video of NASA astronaut Dr. This book led me to Julia Fine’s boldly feminist novel, T he Upstairs House, the story of a depressed new mother who is haunted by Brown and her female lover, avant-garde performer Michael Strange. I celebrated the occasion by reading Amy Gary’s fantastic biography, In the Great Green Room, written after Gary discovered hundreds of unpublished manuscripts by Brown in her sister’s attic. This fall, Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Clement Hurd, turns 75. ![]()
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