Module 1- Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown

*Summary:
Good Night Moon is one of the most loved bedtime stories of all times. Goodnight Moon tells the story of a little rabbit who is getting ready for bedtime and is saying goodnight to everything in his room. The little rabbit says goodnight to his room, the red balloon, the cow jumping over the moon, the starts, the bowl full of mush sitting on his table, and the little old lady whispering “hush.”


*Bibliography:
Brown, M. W., & Hurd, C. (1947). Goodnight moon. New York: Harper.

*My Rating:
As a mother to a three-year old little girl, I had come across this book title before and had always wondered to myself why this book was so popular. So, I decided to do an experiment and read the book to my daughter (who is normally a wiggle worm during story time). She. was. enthralled. Before we put the book away, I must have read the book at least 10 times from cover to cover, which never happens with her. Now, as I write this a few weeks later, my daughter knows almost all of the words to this story. I have grown to love this book for the exact reason that made me hesitant to like it in the first place: its simplicity. Sometimes as adults it is easy to over-think children’s literature, this book reminded me to look at children’s literature through the eyes of a child, and not the critical eye of an adult.


*Reviews:
Preschool. The rhyming simplicity of the text still brings comfort to both mother and child, even after 50 years. Brown's ability to describe just what a small child notices is the essence of this book. The black-and-white details interspersing Hurd's red-and-green-- dominant full-page illustrations still radiate warmth.

Marino, J., & Zachary, N. (1999, 01). Goodnight moon. Book Links, 8, 29. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/197199317?accountid=7113

*Uses in a library:
This would be a great book to use as for a story time book for toddlers. I used this book as my story time book for our class assignment and it worked wonderfully. The librarian could use a felt board with visuals to reinforce vocabulary, and the kids could create crafts like a mobile to hang up at bedtime. The story time could even be a theme story time where everyone comes dressed in their pjs and the lights are turned low while the librarian reads the book by flashlight. Fun, fun, fun!!!