Buenas noches, Luna
Goodnight Moon (Spanish edition)

Who doesn't love rhyming verse? A delightful and enchanting night-time poetry book to calm the soul. Goodnight mittens, kittens, and the red balloon! My buddy readers said 11 stars and then changed to 5 when the scale was explained. This is one of the books from James Mustich's 1,000 Books to Read Bef......more

Goodnight, Moon is the chilling portrayal of a small child (represented, oddly enough, by a rabbit), listing the things in their bedroom and then saying goonight to them, one by one. At best, this is obvious stalling behavior by a willful child, remaining undealt with by a "programmed parent." At wor......more

Margaret Wise Brown's nihilistic classic is a howling renunciation of God, here depicted as a "quiet old lady whispering 'hush'." There is no afterlife here, no reward, no release from the crushing mundanity of life. There is only the bowl of pathetic mush, the forlorn mittens, the abandoned balloon......more

Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown is one of the books that followers of my blog voted as a must-read for our Children's Book August 2018 Readathon. Come check it out and join the next few weeks! This picture book was such a delight. I hadn't remembered reading it when I was a child, but it might......more

Catching Up... Who hasn’t read this book? Raise your hand! This book has been read to my sons, my grandkids, available in my Little Free Library Shed, oh my… And yet… What is this story really about? It tells the story of a rabbit getting ready for bed. Goodnight to the toy house, a young mouse, “a comb......more