Good Night New York City

Good Night Our World

by Adam Gamble, Joe Veno (Illustrator)

Say goodnight to the city that never sleeps! 

The Big Apple is just waiting for your family to explore. Watch your toddler identify the Statue of Liberty, have a picnic in Central Park, watch construction workers build new skyscrapers, visit world-famous museums, and so much more. Reminisce on a recent trip to NYC, or teach them about what makes the city so beautiful and different.  This book is the perfect gift to bring for little New Yorkers everywhere, for birthdays, baby showers, housewarming and going away parties.

With the Good Night Our World series, toddlers and preschool-age kids can build listening and memory skills by identifying famous landmarks. Perfect for bedtime or naptime, reading simple, soothing phrases to your young one will help them fall gently to sleep. Our readers love that their child will pick a favorite portion of the story to read along with them, and on top of that, these classic board books were built to last!  Made from thick paperboard construction, it was designed with your kids in mind.

Introduce stories of exploration to your little one using colorful illustrations and distinct vocabulary with Good Night Books. Be sure to look through our entire line of kids picture books about New York, including Good Night Central Park, Good Night Brooklyn, Good Night Broadway, and many more! 

Surprise your little traveler today with Good Night New York City!

Genres: Childrens, Travel, New York, Fiction, Picture Books

24 pages, Board book

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

Adam 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.

Reviews

[Destiny Dawn Long]

The first thing that I noticed about these books is their incredibly clunky and awkward prose. The second thing that I noticed is that rather than being a bedtime book, like I expected from the title, they start out in the morning and go through the whole day... often feeling random and haphazard. The illustrations are mediocre.

In short, while I think that this series of books make for popular baby shower and first birthday gifts from family and friends hailing from the featured locales, they're poorly written and not worth the money.

The few that I have are in my donation pile already.

[Les livres de Popo]

Livre de circonstance trouvé pendant mon voyage dans une librairie seconde main dans un sous-sol qui sent le moisi 👌🏻 Un livre avec tous les clichés de NYC 🌭 🗽🏙️
Dire que ma mère a failli ne pas l’acheter mais la caissière a insisté pour qu’elle prenne un autre livre gratuitement 😌

[Monica DiNatale]

These books are so fun. I got this for my nephew and he loved it. I like to buy it for kids that don't live in NYC because whenever they visit I can show them some of the things in the book. They use all the great New York City landmarks plus firemen and NYC policemen. I've seen the Philadelphia edition as well and thought it was good too.

[Asho]

This whole series of books is really cute. Grandmommy bought this one as a souvenir for us to add to our collection (which currently includes Good Night Washington, D.C. and Good Night Texas). It features many of the prominent New York landmarks and simple prose text. I'm hoping to add a few more of these books to our collection and instill an early interest in travel in our child.

[Calista]

I was with my brother when he got this for my niece in NYC. We are hoping to inspire them to be curious about the world and want to travel to new places.

The little story is a day doing things in New York. The empire state building, central park, museums and more fun stuff are stuffed into this little book. Great little remembrance.

[Elizabeth K.]

We love this! We also live in New York City, which could certainly explain a lot of the appeal. When we read it, I like to point out which places Lucy has already visited (I was surprised by how many, she's not a year old yet), and which will be future destinations.

[Annalise]

I personally think Good Night Maryland was better (maybe because we live in Maryland so it more relates to my daughter.) However, I do like how it talks about things like the Art Museum and The Statue of Liberty.

[NYC Reads 365]

"Discover some of the best sights in the five boroughs of the Big Apple. Then use your Metrocard to go visit a few. Find more places to visit by reading other books in the series, Buenas noches a nuestro mundo."

[McKenzie McIlrath]

For this being a short board book for young toddlers I thought it was very well done. It talks about saying goodnight to all of the sites in New York City and is a super fun and easy read that keeps kids engaged with great illustrations.

[Tami]

Hope likes it because it is where we live and it has the Statue of Liberty in it and she wants to go into the Statue of Liberty and there is the firefighter, police, and Bronx zoo and construction worker and the bridge. 🚨🚨🚨🚖🚖🚠🚖🚜🚞🏏🎣 per hope. Good book that doesn't get her tooo excited

[Lindsay]

We LOVE this series! We read one to Clarissa every night!!

[Sara Chang]

We love this book! My son picks this up and brings it over for me to read every night.

[Elly Fryer]

This is one of my favorite bedtime stories, especially for city babies.

[Sultan * Baby Mama Smut-a-teer*]

Cute book

[Danelle Spicer]

Great book for children to read when learning about New York City! Goes in-depth of the unique things that New York City has to offer.

[Barbara Mahoney]

A book about New York City for young children. It contains scenes from a day of sight seeing and ends with the children going to sleep at the end of the story.

I read this book to a 2 year old and we both enjoyed it! The book has sturdy pages that will not tear. It has colorful pictures and a nice simple story.

I love all the books in the Good Night series.

[Elizabeth Houseman]

I expected this book to have a sleepy tone, but it's more about landmarks in New York than anything. I think that, if my expectations were different, I might enjoy the book a little bit more. However, learning about the landmarks and locations can be fun for kids too, even if they're not heading to sleep.

[Brett]

The artwork is pretty atrocious and the use of comic sans is troubling to say the least, but at the same time this is a really nice overview of the city. Well thought out with some great details.

[Cleo Bhanot]

Cleo: 2
Parents: 2

[Daniel LaVelle]

Lame. Feels like barely any effort went into the writing and illustration.

[Liz]

Pro: city landmarks and sights, opportunity to find some matching pictures (spot the differences)
Cons: really awkward prose (contrast with Goodnight Moon, which the title evokes).

[Nickel Pickle]

This was another one of my birthday books (there were a lot). Mommy read it to me today. I liked looking at the pictures but I wanted her to move faster through the pages, and I got a little bored before the end. Maybe I'll like it better when I'm not having a sugar high.

[K Morlando]

A Great board book!