MOST CHECKED-OUT BOOKS OF ALL TIME - NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
1. "The Snowy Day" by Ezra Jack Keats - borrowed 485,584 times
2. "The Cat in the Hat" by Dr. Zeuss - checked out 469,650 times
3. "Where the Wild Things Are" by Maurice Sendak - 436,016 checkouts
4. "Charlotte's Web" by E. B. White - borrowed 337,948 times
The classic "Goodnight Moon" by Margaret Wise Brown has a bit of a rocky history.
No doubt, the book would have been among the top three checkouts. A children's librarian named Anne Carroll Moore disliked the story. She disliked it so much when it was published (1947) that the library didn't carry it until... 1972.
A simple literary gem - hidden for 25 years!
Sometimes life is tough not only for authors.
2. "The Cat in the Hat" by Dr. Zeuss - checked out 469,650 times
3. "Where the Wild Things Are" by Maurice Sendak - 436,016 checkouts
4. "Charlotte's Web" by E. B. White - borrowed 337,948 times
The classic "Goodnight Moon" by Margaret Wise Brown has a bit of a rocky history.
No doubt, the book would have been among the top three checkouts. A children's librarian named Anne Carroll Moore disliked the story. She disliked it so much when it was published (1947) that the library didn't carry it until... 1972.
A simple literary gem - hidden for 25 years!
Sometimes life is tough not only for authors.
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Jan 30, 2021 03:43PM
My favorite is Goodnight Moon.
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Naive and simple but great.The cover is embedded in my mind...
