![]() * 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. ![]() It seems as complete as a children's book can be. 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. The sound of the words, the ideas they convey and the pictures combine to lull and reassure * New York Times * Rhythmic, gently lulling words combined with warm and equally lulling pictures make this beloved classic an ideal bedtime book * Christian Science Monitor * The words are like an incantation, a spell - intoxicating for children and mercifully unannoying for parents, even on the hundredth reading. ![]()
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