In 2007, the National Education Association listed Goodnight Moon as one of its "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children". Their next book, Goodnight Moon (1947), is considered classic children's literature in North America by 1990, the total number of copies sold was more than 4 million. She wrote a text herself, for what became Bumble Bugs and Elephants (1938) -"perhaps the first modern board book for babies." Hurd's next collaboration with Brown, The Runaway Bunny, has been in print continuously since its 1942 publication. On seeing two of his paintings, she asked him if he would consider illustrating children's books. Scott, as well as a writer of picture book texts. There Margaret Wise Brown was an editor at W. Hurd returned to New York in 1933 to work as a commercial artist. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, then studied architecture at Yale University and painting with Fernand Léger in Paris. Hurd was born in New York City to Richard Melancthon Hurd, an economist and mortgage banker, and Lucy Gazzam Hurd. He is known for illustrations of children's picture books, especially collaborations with writer Margaret Wise Brown including Goodnight Moon (1947) and The Runaway Bunny (1942). Clement Gazzam Hurd (Janu– February 5, 1988) was an American artist.
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