Book Assignment

As a child, my favorite book was Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown. The story goes through a series of things in a room that a bunny sees. The text has a very pleasing rhyming notion, saying things like, “Goodnight room. Goodnight moon. Goodnight cow jumping over the moon. Goodnight light, and the red balloon…” The pictures in the story were simple and I could easily identify the moon, clock, bunny, socks, and so on. There was not too much going on, and it was very simple and easy to understand, even as a child. I feel like this book really covered the areas that infants learn that we discussed in class. My mother was involved when reading to me, creating the “dance” of synchrony between parent and child. There was joint attention because children are often very demanding of parents when sitting on their lap and reading with them, they ask “what’s that” and ask to turn pages. The book also has repetition with the bunny saying goodnight to everything it sees.