Goodnight World
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- $5.99
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- $5.99
Publisher Description
Prolific author/illustrator Debi Gliori creates a soothing, charmingly illustrated story that is a perfect bedtime read.
This gentle, rhyming book with soft, beautiful illustrations is perfect for snuggling up with at bedtime.
Goodnight moon,
goodnight sun.
Goodnight, goodnight,
to everyone
Every child is getting ready for bed. But children aren't the only ones who go to sleep at night--so do plants, animals, and everything else. It's time to say goodnight to the world!
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
It's time for the whole world to go to sleep: "Goodnight planet, goodnight world./ Peaceful clouds around Earth curled." Waves rock ocean liners to sleep (wispy Zs puff out of their smokestacks), and even a rocket ship has put on a pair of plaid pajamas. In treetops and burrows, at the North Pole and zoo, babies of various species are seen snuggling with siblings, many of them entranced by a bedtime story read by a parent. And at a house where humans live, a small boy in his father's arms looks out the window: "Goodnight sounds of distant cars,/ and in the sky, a million stars." Gliori's (Dragon's Extraordinary Egg) salute to the day's end has some misses (a Northern Lights display looks oddly droopy and gelatinous) and perhaps a few too many overly familiar scenes of loving, cuddling families. But there's a comforting, plush-toy quality to her rounded images, and enough inventiveness a honey-colored image of a queen bee reading to her entire hive is funny and touching to make this a fine addition to the bedtime bookshelf. Ages 3 6.
