The simple, poetic bedtime ritual is a regular on “best of” lists. But it took a while before it became a hit with families. Author Margaret Wise Brown died young. She wasn’t particularly fond of kids, but she also wrote “The Runaway Bunny” and “Big Red Barn.”
NPR’s Elizabeth Blair reports.
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