Goodnight Moon

Goodnight Moon, written by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Clement Hurd, is a childhood classic. A beautifully written and illustrated bedtime story, the rhyming lyrics of this story do an amazing job of lulling the reader into a soft world of familiarity. The pictures in this book are very familiar, very whimsical; how silly it would seem anywhere, but a dream for a family of bunnies to own pet kittens with mittens. I know this may seem like kind of a short blog, but what can you say about such an understated childhood favorite? I guess I could share my favorite quote from this story,

Goodnight comb
And goodnight brush
Goodnight nobody
Goodnight
mush
And goodnight to the old lady
whispering "hush"
Goodnight
stars
Goodnight air
Goodnight noises everywhere

(Brown) it' is a lot like a child trying to avoid going to sleep.