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Who doesn't love rhyming verse? A delightful and enchanting night-time poetry book to calm the soul. Goodnight mittens, kittens, and the red balloon! My buddy readers said 11 stars and then changed to 5 when the scale was explained. This is one of the books from James Mustich's 1,000 Books to Read Bef Leggi tutto

Goodnight, Moon is the chilling portrayal of a small child (represented, oddly enough, by a rabbit), listing the things in their bedroom and then saying goonight to them, one by one. At best, this is obvious stalling behavior by a willful child, remaining undealt with by a "programmed parent." At wor Leggi tutto

Margaret Wise Brown's nihilistic classic is a howling renunciation of God, here depicted as a "quiet old lady whispering 'hush'." There is no afterlife here, no reward, no release from the crushing mundanity of life. There is only the bowl of pathetic mush, the forlorn mittens, the abandoned balloon Leggi tutto

Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown is one of the books that followers of my blog voted as a must-read for our Children's Book August 2018 Readathon. Come check it out and join the next few weeks! This picture book was such a delight. I hadn't remembered reading it when I was a child, but it might Leggi tutto

Catching Up... Who hasn’t read this book? Raise your hand! This book has been read to my sons, my grandkids, available in my Little Free Library Shed, oh my… And yet… What is this story really about? It tells the story of a rabbit getting ready for bed. Goodnight to the toy house, a young mouse, “a comb Leggi tutto

In the great green room There was a child And a red broom And a book of- A bunny saying goodnight to the moon And there were two sleepy parents sitting on chairs And a giant yawn Awaiting the future dawn Goodnight room Goodnight moon Goodnight sleepy parents Goodnight broom Goodnight child Goodnight book Goodnigh Leggi tutto

why do people like this book? finding the little mouse on each page is fun, but other than that it's just a dumb book. there is a lame attempt to rhyme...sometimes. there's no rhythm. i don't get it.

“A great man in his pride . . .
 Casts derision upon
 Supersession of breath;
 He knows death to the bone
 Man has created death.” ~William Butler Yeats “Goodnight Moon . . . Goodnight Air. Goodnight noises everywhere” ~Margaret Wise Brown There’s only one time in your life that you say goodbye to every Leggi tutto