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 and a brush and a bowl full of mush and a quiet old lady who is whispering ‘hush.’”Of course, the quiet old lady looks like a very mature bunny, sitting in a yellow rocking chair, knitting away, whil...

talked to my close friend Neil deGrasse Tyson and he was NOT happy with this book. apparently the moon does NOT sleep OR care if u live or die. I would give this read one star but Neil said that due to the physical laws of the universe I can neither give nor receive stars

A Treasured Gift

After receiving this much beloved classic as a birthday gift from his grandparents, it instantaneously became a must-read every night for our son during his toddler years. I remember his sweet little voice - like it was yesterday - repeating the words: "Goodnight moon." Goodnight cow jumping over the moon..." with us as we read it to him. A delightful book for the ages.

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 Before You Die A Life-Changing List.2025 Reading ScheduleJan A Town Like AliceFeb BirdsongMar Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De BerniereApr War and PeaceMay The Woman in WhiteJun AtonementJul The Sha...

In the great green room
There was a child
And a red broom
And a book of-
A bunny saying goodnight to the moon
And there were two sleepy parents sitting on chairs
And a giant yawn
Awaiting the future dawn


Goodnight room
Goodnight moon
Goodnight sleepy parents
Goodnight broom
Goodnight child
Goodnight book
Goodnight air
Goodnight sleepy readers everywhere

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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 have been read to me... either way, it was like a whole new experience! It's always so difficult to convince a child to fall asleep at night. I don't have kids, but I do have a 5-month-old puppy who w...

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, the telephone that never rings. We live our lives in a "great green room", but at the end we accumulate nothing but the discarded trappings of our childhoods. Even love cannot offer solace: where ar...

I was stunned to see this appear on a list of banned books . . . I mean, seriously? What could be more innocent than this book? What within these brightly-colored pages could possibly be considered objectionable? A Google search revealed nothing. Even Wiki let me down this time.Luckily, while I was having this discussion with a library patron, the director happened to walk by, and she knew the answer.You see the doll on the shelf behind the old lady rabbit's head?It's not wearing any clothes.The...

why do people like this book? finding the little mouse on each page is fun, but other than that it's just a dumb book. there is a lame attempt to rhyme...sometimes. there's no rhythm. i don't get it.

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 worst, it may be a symptom of what could turn into a crippling obsessive compulsive disorder, compelling the unnamed child to wish inanimate objects good night well past the threshold of exhaustion and m...