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Shop nowGoodnight June
A Novel
Narrator
Katherine Kellgren
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Length
8 hours 29 minutes
Language
English
The New York Times bestselling author of Blackberry Winter imagines the inspiration for Goodnight Moon
Goodnight Moon is an adored childhood classic, but its real origins are lost to history. In Goodnight June, Sarah Jio offers a suspenseful and heartfelt take on how the "great green room" might have come to be.
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. Amid 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.
Sarah Jio is the USA Today and New York Times bestselling author of several novels, including The Bungalow, Blackberry Winter, The Last Camellia, Morning Glory, and The Violets of March, a Library Journal Best Book of 2011. A magazine writer and the former founding health and fitness blogger for Glamour magazine, Sarah has written thousands of articles and blog posts for national magazines, including O, The Oprah Magazine, Redbook, Marie Claire, Seventeen, Health, Bon Appetit, Gourmet, Woman's Day, American Baby, and Parenting. She has also appeared as a commentator on NPR's Morning Edition, and is a regular contributor to Brides magazine. Sarah lives in Seattle.
Katherine Kellgren (1969–2018), narrator and actress, appeared onstage in London, New York, and Frankfurt, including in the role of Laura in a regional production of The Glass Menagerie and appearances on Comedy Central. In recognition of her mastery of audiobook narration, she received many honors, including the prestigious Audie Awards, with four for best female narrator; the Odyssey Award; Publishers Weekly Listen Up Award; dozens of AudioFile magazine Earphones Awards; an AudioFile Golden Voice Award; Booklist Voice of Choice award; and acclaim from press and listener reviews.
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“Readers will be as invested in the outcome of the bookstore as June is and they will be captivated by the imaginative backstory the author creates for one of America’s greatest children's authors.”
“This eminently readable novel with particular appeal for fans of children’s literature is a tribute to family and forgiveness.”
“A woman struggling with her past discovers a family connection to a classic children’s book…Jio sprinkles her book with sunny messages about being the author of your own life; fans will applaud her optimistic outlook.”
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