Origin
Since American writer Margaret Wise Brown and Illustrator Clement Hurd published the children’s book “Goodnight Moon” in 1947, people globally have recited the story of “little rabbit” observing the surroundings of his bedroom and then saying goodnight to supposedly notable items, including a “cow jumping over the moon.”
Among readers of this roughly 30-page picture book, of course, were parents and caregivers. Some of them took to social media in recent years, however, to report an alleged finding of their repeated analysis of Brown and Hurd’s work: The fictional rabbit supposedly spent 70 minutes preparing for sleep, based on two illustrated clocks in the character’s bedroom.