Rating:  Summary: My Daughter's All Time Favorite Book! Review: My daughter age 19 months absolutely loves this book. The story keeps her interest throughout and the board book style makes it easy for her to turn the pages which she loves. I strongly recommend this book to other parents.
Rating:  Summary: Every night is a GOOD NIGHT. Review: I bought this book when Adri was 10 mo, and she never misses a night w/o it. Now, at 2, she knows who to say "good night" to even before I finish turning the page and sometimes even without the book. This book is a must!
Rating:  Summary: An every night ritual for 2 1/2 years! Review: My daughter has always loved to be read to. She preferred this book from day one! As we have read it so many times, she now has it memorized to the point that she reads it to me. It is as sweet and soothing a book as I have had the pleasure to read.
Rating:  Summary: my son reaches for this book to be read EVERY night Review: I was a little leery about this book, before I purchased it, but oh, did that opinion change. My son (age 2-1/2) absolutely adores this book. At the end of all the "good nights", he says good night to mommy, daddy, and his little brother Joshua.
Rating:  Summary: I absolutly love this book and I am 12!!!! Review: When I was real little I recieved Goodnight Moon for a present. I loved it! I still do. Great book for any age.
Rating:  Summary: The ultimate bed time story for young children Review: This story did not become a classic without pleasing many. Children enjoy the rhyme and the familiar objects; parents enjoy the ease of reading and the fact that the story is short. You can not go wrong with this story.
Rating:  Summary: This is a must for active/alert babies and toddlers. Review: My eleven month old son loves to read bedtime books and "Good Night Moon" is handed to us time after time to be read. He is very active, but stops long enough to look at each page. In other books, he is turning the pages as fast as we can read them. There is much opportunity for expressive reading tone and pointing out of details. It is a sweet story that can be read over and over without growing tired.
Rating:  Summary: Goodnight and sweet dreams Review: As a small child I had the good luck to have a mother who worked in the childrens' department of a large local bookstore. We had every imaginable childrens book of the late forties through the fifties. Two of her coworkers went on to write and publish childrens books of their own, one becoming a collossal lifetime success achieving great recognition. I say this as a preface to the high esteem I place on Goodnight Moon among many others of the period, many now forgotten. We kept most of the childrens books long after my sister and I out grew the ages they were intended for. Goodnight Moon became like a beacon in my mind and was the one I recalled in times of trouble and distress. When I married and had children I located my severely worn copy and repaired the binding and some of the pages. I was glad to have an excuse to read this book aloud again but it was as an adult that I came to really recognize its magic. Goodnight Moon is somehow more than just a superior bedtime book for small children. I see its power as existing on a level not unlike the wisdom of Lao Tzu or William Blake. Perhaps this sounds hyperbolic but when the text is as short and condenced as Goodnight Moon it takes on the aura of a mantra, a chant or an invocation to the spirits of calm and safety, security and serenity. It functions as a spell or enchantment to address that part of us whether adult or child who can recognize the magic power inherent in words written with such certainty and confidence. It verges on being a prayer or a hymn. I still have my copy and will only relinquish it or other books I retain at the time when and if I become a grandparent. If I should come upon a small person in need such ministrations before then I shall consider myself truely lucky indeed.
Rating:  Summary: great Review: I loved this book from the moment I first read it and that was when I was little. I have this book for my baby.
Rating:  Summary: Best Bedtime Book for Babies Review: It is a poetic and soothing book, and it helps babies and parents calm down after a long day and go to bed. We started reading this to our daughter everynight since she was 4 months old. Although we felt silly reading this to her at such an early age, we were amazed to find that she could recite all the words when she finally became old enough to talk. A must have!
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