What Parents Should Know
Pediatricians recommend that a child have a bedtime routine,
something familiar and soothing that indicates the end of the
play day and time for rest. This book takes the doctor's
advice.
Common Sense Media Review
For more than fifty years this has been the ultimate
going-to-bed book, the first book parents share with their
children, the book kids ask for again and again, and the one
parents don't mind reading again and again. It's easy to see
why--author Brown and illustrator Hurd do everything right.
The book itself is smaller than many picture books, just the right size for young hands to hold. The colors are simple and vivid, gradually getting dimmer in the room as the night sky get brighter outside the window. The rhythm is slow and calming, the rhymes are soft, the ritual of bidding good night to the familiar objects in the room is appealing.
The pictures are full of interesting details--the paintings hanging on the wall in bunny's room are of scenes from another Brown-Hurd collaboration, The Runaway Bunny.
Pediatricians recommend that a child have a bedtime routine, something familiar and soothing that indicates the end of the play day and time for rest. This book takes the doctor's advice. As the bunny goes through the ritual of saying goodnight to everyone and everything, children often add their own goodnight greetings. After a reading, one five-year-old said, "Goodnight, Goodnight Moon book."
From the Book:
Goodnight comb
And goodnight brush
Goodnight nobody
Goodnight mush
And goodnight to the old lady whispering, "Hush."
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