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Jan 09, 2012

Kirk rated 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 everything you’ve come to know and love . . . and even dedicate a little time saying goodbye to the things you’ve come to More...

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Mar 21, 2008

Rosieface rated it:

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Nov 13, 2008

Jessica rated it:

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.

8 comments like (10 people liked it)

Jan 12, 2012

Luann rated it:

I think this is a book you have to have read first when you were very young in order to LOVE it. At least for me, when I first read it as an adult, I just didn't get why it is such a classic and why so many people count it as their all-time favorite first book from their childhood. I can see that this is a nice book for reading at bedtime. But the list of things on the "goodnight" list just seems really random to me. I wonder if some kids love it because they can soon "read" More...

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Mar 15, 2008

Benjamingibbs rated it:

The baby bunny is oddly unengaged with a temperamental grandma bunny as he (or she) watches the room grow darker (even though the moon rises). Despite these inconsistencies and occasional strange reading cadences (goodnight nobody? what does that mean), I would recommend book to anyone interested in going to bed at night and suffers from separation anxiety with inanimate objects.

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Dec 16, 2009

John rated it:

What is about this book that haunts me? Is it the deep sense of emptiness? That the room stays the same, but objects move and light slowly fades into dark? That the narrator has no connection at all with the only other "human," the old lady whispering hush?

Or is that that the narrator says goodnight to "nobody," that as we go outside her room, we see only stars - no people, no cities. It's as if this little bunny is the last one on earth, and is being watched by More...

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Sep 07, 2011

Sam rated it:

I choose this book as it's widely regarded as a classic children's book. Although it is considered to be a bedtime story- a rhyme about a childs bedtime ritual of saying goodnight to everything they can see from their bed- I believe that the short rhyming couplets about subjects that most children would be familiar with make it an ideal book for building literacy skills. Although the edition I read was a board book, it is also availbe in paperback and hardback formats which would probably be mor More...

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Nov 30, 2008

Matt rated it:

I have read this to my daughter since she was two months old. She is now 20 months old going on 21 months and I have to say that I grown to appreciate this book. This is not only due to the enjoyment she gets or because the little rabbit procrastinates going to bed like my little one does. No, like all great children's literature, this book has a couple of layers. I enjoy this book because I think it's about a child's version of death. I'm not crazy - promise! Maybe it's the perplexing Old Lady More...

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Dec 10, 2008

Rich rated it:

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Apr 27, 2008

Tortla rated it:

I think I need to re-read this. People's reviews make it sound wonderfully disturbing. Perhaps many children's books are like this when read by a non-child. Perhaps that's the point. But I never really thought of this little book as much more than an obvious ploy to get kids to fall asleep by reading it to them...what with the repeated "goodnight" and the weirdly color-saturated pictures and the lack of...plot. But maybe the obvious ploy was part of a larger (less obvious) ploy to get More...

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Oct 04, 2011

Elizabeth rated it:

I thought that the book Goodnight Moon was very good. I liked the way that most of it rhymed and it repeated itself at the end of everything that was in the room that needed to be told goodnight.

One thing that I did not really like about the book was that some of the pictures were black and white and some of them were color. I think I would have liked it all in color because it would have made everything pop out more and it all would have flowed better. But in general, I would recomme More...

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Dec 17, 2009

Belinda rated it:

Look, I KNOW this has become a children's classic, and that it's much-beloved by many who grew up having it read to them. We had it for Bella when she was really little. Fortunately, we didn't have to read it to her very often, because SHE didn't like it. It didn't hold her attention--and who could blame her? Stacked up next to Where The Wild Things Are, this thing does not stand a chance. The "poem" in it doesn't adhere to any consistent meter or rhyme scheme...I think it's jus More...

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Apr 17, 2008

Michelle rated it:

This post modernist take on nocturnal rabbit activity has been widely acclaimed by pundits and neophytes alike. Although the end is itself anticlimactic, the book throughout alternates between a Jeffersonian systematic formulation of an intuitively quixotic plot and a reductive encapsulation of the bed-time ritual that is practically, in its essence, Elizabethan. A revisionist reading unearths the Orwellian presence of the hushing lady, which is countermanded by the ideological shift intr More...

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May 05, 2010

Rachel rated it:

I don't remember seeing this book as a child. So I think I read it for the first time today and LOVED IT. Actually, Goodnight Goon: A Petrifying Parody, which I read first, and enjoyed, doesn't compare to this one. I love the illustrations and text. I enjoyed looking for the mouse and the kittens on each page, and examining the other details in the book. Also I liked the way the book got darker and darker as you go along, especially after "good night light." In fact, reading this More...

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Jan 06, 2009

Rob rated it:

My wife makes fun of me, but this book drives me nuts! Who says goodnight to a bowl of mush!?

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Dec 23, 2008

Evan added it

this book got me through some tough times.

3 comments like (2 people liked it)

Apr 02, 2009

Michael rated it:

I came across this “classic” today and…well…where do I begin? The back cover advises that this “is the perfect first book to share with a child.” My family agreed so I had to read this inane “story” every night to my son until I was able to locate significantly better board books. That is, until I made it to the local bookshop and grabbed any and everything that wasn’t Goodnight Moon. Ten years later, my son disdains books and, upon rediscovering this, I now know why. Now I understand why the co More...

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Nov 24, 2008

Sri rated it:

Bintang tiga dari aku yang sudah bukan anak-anak lagi. Kalau membaca review buku ini di Goodreads, pada umumnya disebutkan kalau anak-anak sangat menyukainya.
Mungkin karena dengan buku ini anak bisa mencocokkan kalimat dengan gambarnya, misalnya mana balon mana telepon, mana kittens mana mittens.
Trus bisa nyari-nyari tikusnya sedang di mana.
Trus kalimatnya berima.
Jadi mungkin, kalau Damar sudah bisa bahasa Inggris, dan Damar masih anak-anak Damar akan memberi lima bin More...

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Feb 02, 2012

Samantha rated it:

Goodnight Mooom by Margaret Wise Brown, to me, is the best bed-time story of all time. The book is a patterned book, and the pattern is saying goodnight. It starts off by describing items in the great green room, and eventually says goodnight to each of the items.

The cover of the boook immediately grabs your attention. The colors are very bright, and almost neon. The illustrations match the words perfectly. For example: "In the great green room there was a telephone, and a red b More...

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Oct 20, 2011

Ronda rated it:

Loved sharing this one with my son when he was little and am now rediscovering it for lessons. For the younger grades, it works well for discussing rhyming words--"'mush' is kind of like oatmeal or porridge, but does 'brush' and 'hush' rhyme with 'oatmeal'? No!" With all the grades, I'm surprised at how many students have not noticed the mouse that Clement Hurd hid in each of the color pictures--and all of the grades--K-5--have seemed to really enjoy this mouse scavenger hunt. Also More...

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Sep 21, 2011

shranicky rated it:

This patterned/predictable book by Margaret Wise Brown is about a little bunny who is laying in bed, noticing everything that's in his room. From the pictures, to the kittens and their mittens, to the old lady saying hush, he notices everything. He then goes back through everything he's noticed and starts to tell everything goodnight.

This book has been a bedtime favorite for years. I know it was definitely one of mine when I was younger. I loved having my parents read this to me rig More...

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Sep 12, 2011

Sara rated it:

1. Category: picture book

2. Goodnight Moon is a fantastic and seemingly timeless stories about a little rabbit trying to stall going to bed by saying "goodnight" to everything in the room. Its a classic example of a bedtime story and uses great illustrations, rhyme and rhythm to keep children coming back again and again.

3. A. One of the major strengths of Goodnight Moon is its illustrations.
B. The illustrations in the book flow seamlessly with the text, wh More...

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Sep 09, 2011

Robert rated it:

A review by Baby Ezra.

My parents chose this as my first book, and I must congratulate them on their perspicacity and erudition in this choice. Goodnight Moon richly deserves its place in the canon of baby classics, and I would doff my hat in its honor if only I had control of my head, neck, arms, or hands.

Goodnight Moon gently introduces us to a room full of objects, and gracefully leads us through a nighttime routine that allows us (through the rabbit protagonist) to bid ea More...

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Sep 01, 2011

Allison rated it:

There are so many great things about this book it's hard to know where to start. The narrative is great, repetitive, predictable, rhyming almost sing-songy text. The action is predictable and realistic. Children can project themselves into the storyline - who really wants to go to bed anyway? We can stall and say "good-night" to EVERYTHING. It's great! And, doing so really does wind us down and help us get ready to finally truly go to sleep.

The illustrations are awesome. As I More...

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Feb 26, 2011

Alex rated it:

I love this book, but if you think about it, it's actually kind of alarming. When you think about it, there is something disturbing about the pictures. Has anyone else noticed the following odd things in the child bunny's bedroom:

a. a fireplace
b. a telephone
c. an expensive clock
d. a bookshelf full of hardbound books of various editions

Who puts a telephone in a child's bedroom? It would just wake him up. Who gives a child a room this large? With a fireplace? Wit More...

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Feb 07, 2011

Zackery rated it:

Goodnight Moon is a classic story that many children nowadays are familiar with. the first thing that caught my eye was that the artwork section of the title page says "pictures by", this lead me to believe that maybe the artwork was created and then photographed to create the visuals in the book. I then noticed that the illustrations oscillate from full color on one page to plain black and white on the next page. Each time a new item is introduced in the bedroom it is illustrated indi More...

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Dec 29, 2010

Jamie rated it:

Goodnight Moon is a classic that has been passed down for generations, and rightly so. Young children love the simplicity and the smooth flow of the words in this book. The baby bunny is getting ready for bed. Before the baby bunny goes to sleep, he must say goodnight to everything in the room.
Children will quickly become familiar with the pattern of the book, and will be able to join the reader in saying good night to the different objects in the room. They can identify the picture More...

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Nov 01, 2010

Austin rated it:

There is still no children's book to my mind that conveys so great a sense of peace, security, and well-being as does Goodnight Moon. Clement Hurd's illustrations are just as compelling as the words. The translation of the people into bunnies, while hardly the first personification in the history of books, does a great deal to foster that very safe feeling that emanates from the "great green room"--the complexities of people and human relationship are for the time being ignored. As More...

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Sep 12, 2010

...m... rated it:

As we were choosing a book to read before bed tonight she saw the moon and picked this one.
We received this book as a gift from a family member. I was excited when we got it because I remembered that I had it when I was small. Although - I didn't remember too much about it other than the fact that I was a tad bit frightened by it back then.
After opening the book - I remember part of my uneasiness stemmed from the books color scheme. Another part was after I was reminded about the " More...

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Jun 20, 2010

Yue rated it:

This book is a very good story of children before go to sleep. During the story, children learn to name the furniture and decorations in the room and say goodbye to them. The simple and similar sentences are like a lullaby; it makes children calm down for the daytime’s exciting memory and gradually fall asleep.

The author mentions many animals at the beginning of the story, such as cow, kitten and bear; these elements start children's interests in the book. In addition, the images o More...

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