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To: Jon Koplik who wrote (2071)	9/8/2000 4:20:03 PM
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<font color=MediumVioletRed>the rest of WSJ article on "Goodnight Moon" heir. Last month, the Clarkes picked up and moved again, to the Appalachians. The move came just after the completion of an investigation that Mr. Clarke says the New York Department of Social Services conducted after receiving a complaint alleging that he verbally abused his children. The department declines to comment. Getting Into a Routine Mr. Clarke is having a $153,000 house built, to be paid for -- as usual -- with cash. He intends to spend his days as he has for years: hiking, reading -- worn volumes of Tolstoy, William Blake, Flaubert, Frederick Douglass and others lie about his living room -- doing push-ups and pull-ups, hanging out in coffee shops and browsing in markets. He will greet his children at the school-bus stop, help them with their homework, cook buffalo meat for them. He recently began drafting a will. He probably won't have much money to leave to his stated beneficiaries -- his four children. Instead, he likely will pass along pretty much what Ms. Brown left to him: the enduring value of a bedtime story. Two years ago, President Clinton extended the Clarke family's hold on that value when he signed the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. The new law, approved after intensive lobbying from the entertainment industry, gave Mr. Clarke possession of most of his copyrights for 20 years more. Mr. Clarke will be a few months shy of 100 in 2043 when "Goodnight Moon" slips from his fingers. And it appears that the book's popularity will continue to wax. In May alone, "Goodnight Moon" was read aloud on the television show "ER," dissected at a symposium on Ms. Brown at the Bibliotheque Nationale in France and parodied in a risque fashion-spread in Lucky magazine that began; "Goodnight room. Goodnight chest. Goodnight girl who's half undressed." Total sales of the book have surpassed 11 million copies, making it one of the best-selling picture books of all time. But of all Ms. Brown's books, "Goodnight Moon" isn't Mr. Clarke's favorite. He is partial to "Pussy Willow." "This little furry gray kitten gets lost," he says, affecting a childlike voice. "He's wandering past different kinds of things, different types of trees. And then, all I remember is that he finally realizes he's home because he sees a pussy-willow tree." Write to Joshua Harris Prager at josh.prager@wsj.com Copyright © 2000 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.