Goodnight Cigarette
It seems that HarperCollins doctored the photograph of illustrator Clement Hurd on a recent printing of Goodnight Moon. They removed a barely visible cigarette from his hand. One children’s bookstore launched the site Goodnight Reality to campaign to have the original photograph reinstated.
[…] A quick follow up to my last entry: You’ll remember that HarperCollins airbrushed a cigarette out of illustrator Clement Hurd’s author photo on Goodnight Moon. Collectors will want to snap up their variant dust jackets before the current printing sells out, today’s Shelf Awareness newsletter shares this from a HarperCollins email: “…we recognize the concern over adjusting historical photographs, and have therefore decided to print an alternate picture of Clement Hurd in future reprints that does not feature a cigarette.” […]