"Goodnight Moon" by Margaret Wise Brown is a great book for parents to read with their children at bedtime. The main character is a young bunny already tucked in bed in his room. The room is green and has a bright red carpet. Some of the things in the room are listed, like a telephone, a red balloon, two pictures, kittens and mittens, a toyhouse, a mouse, a comb and a brush, a bowl of mush, and a old lady. The old lady would say hush to help the little boy fall asleep. Once everything in the room was described, the little boy began saying goodnight to everything in the room. First to the moon , and then to the picture of the cow jumping over the moon. As well as the red balloon and the picture of the bears and the chairs, the kittens and the mittens, the clocks and the goodnight socks, the little house and the mouse, the comb and the brush, the mush and the old lady saying hush, the starts and the air, and the noises everywhere. With that, the little boy rabbit fell asleep happy and content.
I am not sure that this book is good for the classroom, but it is great for parents to read to their children when they are going to bed. This use to be one of my favorite books when I was a little kid because it made me feel like I could tell anything that scared me in my room goodnight and it would not be scary anymore. It is a very easy read for young children and the vocabulary is applicable to child's everyday interactions. Many young children find it hard to fall asleep with the shadows in their room, and like me, they can use this book to tell everything goodnight that scares them.
Brown, Margaret Wise (1975). Goodnight Moon. New York, NY: Happercollins.
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