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Good Night Kansas
Welcome to the Sunflower State! From lions at the Sedgwick County Zoo to the Flint Hills Discovery Center, this charming board book will entertain and educate young minds. Featured attractions include Massachusetts Street, Kansas Speedway, Kansas Museum of History, Deanna Rose Children's Farmstead, Botanica gardens, wheat farmers, cows, tractors, the State Capitol Building, and more.
20 pages, Board Book
Published October 10, 2017
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Adam Gamble
406 books26 followersAdam Gamble, is a writer, a photographer, and a publisher. He is the author of many books in the Good Night Books series, In the Footsteps of Thoreau, and A Public Betrayed. He lives in Sandwich, MA.
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January 11, 2023
This was one of those souvenir-type finds in the Topeka Cracker Barrel and as such since of my sister's goal to find Kansas books I chose to throw it on the list.
Good Night Kansas explores some of the more notable places of Kansas from morning until night. As such readers will be introduced to the ever-present sunflower fields that can be found in many Kansas communities in the autumn, the Deanna Farmstead of Overland Park, the common elements of wheat field farmers and cattle of the countryside, the Sedgwick County Zoo of Wichita and the Sternberg Museum of Natural History in Hays just to name a few spots.
The text is very basic and formulaic with just the time of day being changed for the various entries to allow the passage of day as the reader is going over the book so it would make for a good learning to read book although with assistance given to some of the names. Otherwise the book offers very little description of the places besides a brief nod to what its illustration holds and almost no location information so if you aren't from Kansas or even if you a young child than more than likely you will have almost no idea where any of this is (and who is this person that cannot called Massachusetts Street by its more localized Mass Street?).
Meanwhile the illustrations are brightly colored and very cartoonish so they will attract to very young readers. As for myself I am wondering what is up with these horses from Deanna Farmstead as the one looks like a cow and the other one looks more like an cartoonish although a slightly bit more realistic representation of Charlie Horse from that old show Lamb Chops.
All in all it was a decent read and although the audience is meant to be for children I just think it will be over most of their heads. Meanwhile the right audience would be for adult Kansas fans, especially those who have traveled the state, but at the same time the content matter is rather too young for many of them. Perhaps a much happier medium and compromise would be to use this book as a basis for various Kansas day trips and/or a family bucketlist when something to do needs to be found.
Good Night Kansas explores some of the more notable places of Kansas from morning until night. As such readers will be introduced to the ever-present sunflower fields that can be found in many Kansas communities in the autumn, the Deanna Farmstead of Overland Park, the common elements of wheat field farmers and cattle of the countryside, the Sedgwick County Zoo of Wichita and the Sternberg Museum of Natural History in Hays just to name a few spots.
The text is very basic and formulaic with just the time of day being changed for the various entries to allow the passage of day as the reader is going over the book so it would make for a good learning to read book although with assistance given to some of the names. Otherwise the book offers very little description of the places besides a brief nod to what its illustration holds and almost no location information so if you aren't from Kansas or even if you a young child than more than likely you will have almost no idea where any of this is (and who is this person that cannot called Massachusetts Street by its more localized Mass Street?).
Meanwhile the illustrations are brightly colored and very cartoonish so they will attract to very young readers. As for myself I am wondering what is up with these horses from Deanna Farmstead as the one looks like a cow and the other one looks more like an cartoonish although a slightly bit more realistic representation of Charlie Horse from that old show Lamb Chops.
All in all it was a decent read and although the audience is meant to be for children I just think it will be over most of their heads. Meanwhile the right audience would be for adult Kansas fans, especially those who have traveled the state, but at the same time the content matter is rather too young for many of them. Perhaps a much happier medium and compromise would be to use this book as a basis for various Kansas day trips and/or a family bucketlist when something to do needs to be found.
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