Goodnight June: A Novel

<b><b>The <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author of <i>Always </i>and <b><b><i>Blackberry Winter </i>takes <i>Goodnight Moon </i>as inspiration for this remarkable story of friendship, love, and the mystery behind this beloved classic.<br></b></b></b></b><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.