A beautiful anniversary edition to celebrate seventy years of this classic board book
Margaret Wise Brown (1910 - 1952) was an American author of many
popular tales for children, but is best known for her stories
Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny.
Clement Hurd (1908 - 1988) studied art in Paris and worked as a
freelance decorative artist in New York before becoming a
children's book illustrator. Best known for Goodnight Moon, he
later created many beautiful books with his wife Edith Thacher
Hurd.
Rhythmic, gently lulling words combined with warm and equally
lulling pictures make this beloved classic an ideal bedtime
book
*Christian Science Monitor*
The sound of the words, the ideas they convey and the pictures
combine to lull and reassure
*New York Times*
The words are like an incantation, a spell - intoxicating for
children and mercifully unannoying for parents, even on the
hundredth reading. To hear the opening line of Margaret Wise
Brown’s Goodnight Moon - “In the great green room” - is to embark
on a Proustian reverie about a calm place with the lights turned
low and a child snuggling sleepily in your arms. It seems as
complete as a children’s book can be.
*The New York Times*
In a great green room a little bunny is tucked up snugly and safely
in bed and is getting ready to say goodnight to all the familiar
things in his room, one by one. This gentle story, loved by
generations of children, is the perfect book to read to your
toddler at bedtime (and hopefully lull them to sleep too)
*Mumsnet Best Books for 2 Year Olds (2nd April 2020)*
The best lullaby-type book is Goodnight Moon – my two and a half
year old daughter can recite it off by heart and reads it to her
teddy after we leave her to go to sleep. It is a wonderful
discovery, clever, sweet and just the thing before bedtime
*Mumsnet*
Friends who are on their third child rave about it, and it is the
accepted classic first book to buy for a baby
*Irish Independent*
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