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Clement Hurd, Illustrator of Children’s Books

Clement Hurd, 80, illustrator of the children’s bedtime classic “Goodnight Moon,” which has sold more than 2 million copies. Hurd produced more than 100 books for children, including “The World Is Round,” the only children’s book written by Gertrude Stein. Hurd collaborated with writer Margaret Wise Brown on “Goodnight Moon,” about a child who says good night to just a1651471732to sleep of all the elements of a child’s world,” said Carol Christ, a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. In San Francisco on Friday.

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