Goodnight Moon.....

My absolute favorite children's book is:

I belive that I read this at least a million times when my daughter who is now 11 was a toddler.  Not that she wanted me to read this book over and over but it was the book I enjoyed as apart of our nightime ritual.  I read it so much I knew the book word for word....  I had such a sense of peace and calmness today while watching the youtube animated version of the book.  Took me back to once familiar place.  Here is the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yu_g5x3ZoQ 

As I remember my mulitude of times reading it I realized that its my favorite even more so now because it brings back some of my most enjoyable bedtime moments with my daugther. In the story you say goodnight to everthing.  I also enjoyed doing my own voice animation especially with the line "goodnight to the quiet old lady whispering hush"....  It's a fun and catchy rhyme that's easy for children to remember.  My love for the rhyming words that I still remember as if it was yestersday makes Good Night Moon my all time favorite children's book.

Goodnight Moon
By Margret Wise Brown 

In the great green room 

There was a telephone 

And a red balloon 

And a picture of 

The cow jumping over the moon 

And there were three little bears sitting on chairs 

And two little kittens 

And a pair of mittens 

And a little toyhouse 

And a young mouse 

And a comb and a brush and a bowl full of mush 

And a quiet old lady who was whispering "hush." 

Goodnight room 

Goodnight moon 

Goodnight cow jumping over the moon 

Goodnight light 

And the red balloon 

Goodnight bears 

Goodnight chairs 

Goodnight kittens 

And goodnight mittens 

Goodnight clocks 

And goodnight socks 

Goodnight little house 

And goodnight mouse 

Goodnight comb 

And goodnight brush 

Goodnight nobody 

Goodnight mush 

And goodnight to the old lady whispering "hush." 

Goodnight stars 

Goodnight air 

Goodnight noises everywhere. 

(Harper and Row, 1947)