#19: Margaret Wise Brown’s Goodnight Moon (1947) was banned by the New York Public Library in 1947 for being “overly sentimental.” It was reinstated in 1972. #18: Author Jacqueline Woodson has most of her books memorized so she carries her books with her, like Brown Girl Dreaming (2014) and Pecan Pie Baby (2010), wherever she goes. The original villain? According to Barrie, it was Peter Pan himself! Hook was only invented to solve a theatrical need: the stage hands needed more time to switch out the sets, so Barrie created an interstitial scene featuring a pirate ship. Barrie’s drama that would later be adapted into the novel Peter Pan (1911) the play that inspired the novel. #17: Captain Hook was not the original villain in J.M. White’s inspiration for Charlotte’s Web (1952) came from witnessing a spider spin an egg sac in his barn in Maine. #11: Want to know a fun fact about a classic picture book? Ezra Jack Keats’s The Snowy Day (1962) won the 1963 Caldecott Medal, which marked a significant milestone: The Snowy Day was the first book featuring a Black character to win a major children’s literary award. from Johns Hopkins University, Erdrich returned to Dartmouth as a writer-in-residence. That same year, the college started a Native-American studies department. #10: Native author Louise Erdrich, writer of The Birchbark House series, was part of the cohort of the first female students at the Ivy League’s Dartmouth College. I named this one of my most influential books in my childhood on who I became as a kid lit writer. Originally, Sendak wanted the title to be Where the Wild Horses Are before he changed his mind and went with “Things” to describe the wild creatures Max meets. #9: Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are (1963) almost didn’t have that name. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
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