


Marcus says Bank Street practitioners learned that children, "want to know about the world they're in at the moment, starting with their own room and their own surroundings and their own street.

Their findings are neatly summed up in the title of Mitchell's Here And Now Story Book. They collected data by observing and talking directly to the experts: the children themselves. Founded by educator and writer Lucy Sprague Mitchell, Bank Street brought together psychologists, pediatricians, sociologists, and student teachers to explore how children learn. In 1935, Brown began a long association with the progressive Bank Street school in New York City. Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd's classic Goodnight Moon has been translated into more than 25 languages and sold millions of copies since it was published 75 years ago.
