Goodnight Moon 123 Board Book: A Counting Book
PreS—Spreads showingGoodnight Moon's great green room introduce and conclude this counting book. Images from the original work allow readers to count "One quiet old lady whispering hush," "Two little kittens," "Three little bears sitting on chairs" and so forth, up to "Ten toy houses," and then jump to "One hundred stars." Hurd's original artwork is reused, rearranged, and, in some cases, multiplied, such as the five black telephones floating against a white background. Unfortunately, the gentle poetic lilt that touched so many hearts does not appear in this work. Though young children often enjoy and embrace the familiar, this spin-off relies wholly on Hurd's iconic artwork but offers no homage to the original spirit of the book. Molly Bang'sTen, Nine, Eight(HarperCollins, 1983) and Karen Katz'sCounting Kisses(S & S, 2001) are just two of the countless counting books that work better. Stick with the originalGoodnight Moon.—Laura Butler, Mount Laurel Library, NJCopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.--This text refers to an alternateBoard bookedition.