To honor this selection, the Emmett Lee Dickinson Museum will release "Goodbye Earth," a companion book to Margaret Wise Brown's picture book, "Goodnight Moon."
Here's the text:
There was an arctic pole
And a tidal shoal
And picturesque mountains from where the freshest water would roll
And there were species of bears
And species of hares
And beautiful sunsets
And rivers and inlets
And mid-ocean ridges
And even land bridges
And fish in the sea and birds in the sky
And the world's population was starting to cry:
Goodbye world
Goodbye Earth,
Goodbye poles
Goodbye shoals
Goodbye mountains where fresh water rolls
Goodbye bears
Goodbye hares
Goodbye sunsets and rivers and inlets
Goodbye ridges
Goodby land bridges
Goodbye fishes in the sea
Goodbye birds in the sky
Goodbye to the world's popluation starting to cry
Goodbye stars
Goodbye air
Goodbye noises everywhere.