Goodnight Moon is a classic bedtime poem by Margaret Wise Brown. It is a child’s home library must have. The picture book has been in print for more than fifty years. Now it is available as a board book with a bunny. A perfect baby shower gift.

It is a short poem of goodnight wishes from a young rabbit to every object in his room. Read the board book using soft tones. The repeating lines are comforting and hypnotic, lulling baby to sleep. If you have a young one who hates bedtime, this is the book for your family.

The board book and bunny is a great tool for babysitters. Goodnight Moon interactive bunny will draw their attention. Are you going to a baby shower? Give the board book to the future mother. She will love you and this book as much as her peaceful, sleeping child.

Clement Hurd’s ink drawings are brightly, colored. He draws the interior of the little rabbit’s room. The reader and child see each object to which the bunny says goodnight. The colors dim as the story comes to the end.

Goodnight Moon is so popular, it is available in many languages.


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