Goodnight Moon (Lap Edition)

by Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd (Illustrator)

Overview

This classic bedtime story that has lulled generations of children to sleep is the perfect first book to share with a child.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780694016754
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	09/28/2001
Edition description:	Lap-sized Board Book
Pages:	34
Sales rank:	7,932
Product dimensions:	11.00(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.00(d)
Age Range:	3 Months to 2 Years

About the Author

Few writers have been as attuned to the concerns and emotions of childhood as Margaret Wise Brown (1910-1952). A graduate of Hollins College and the progressive Bank Street College of Education, she combined her literary aspirations with the study of child development. Her unique ability to see the world through a child's eyes is unequaled. Her many classic books continue to delight thousands of young listeners and readers year after year.

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Muy pocos escritores de literatura infantil han logrado captar las emociones e inquietudes de la niñez como Margaret Wise Brown (1910-1952). Sus numerosos y ya clásicos libros y grabaciones continúan deleitando a lectores y oyentes de todas las edades.

Clement Hurd (1908–1988) is best known for illustrating Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny, the classic picture books by Margaret Wise Brown. He studied painting in Paris with Fernand Léger and others in the early 1930s. After his return to the United States in 1935, he began to work in children's books. He illustrated more than one hundred books, many of them with his wife, Edith Thacher Hurd, including the Johnny Lion books, The Day the Sun Danced, and The Merry Chase. A native of New York City, he lived most of his life in Vermont and California.

Clement Hurd (1908–1988) se graduó de Yale University. Estudió pintura en París en los años 1930 con Fernand Léger, entre otros. Allí fue donde desarrolló su estilo característico, compuesto de colores de fuerte contraste. Hurd estuvo casado con la escritora Edith Thacher Hurd, con quien también creó muchos libros que se convirtieron en favoritos de los niños.

Date of Birth:

May 23, 1910

Date of Death:

November 13, 1952

Place of Birth:

Brooklyn, N.Y.

Place of Death:

Nice, France

Education:

B.A., Hollins College, 1932; Bank Street College of Education

Website:

http://www.margaretwisebrown.com

Editorial Reviews

"In the great green room..." The first few words from this beloved 1947 classic are enough to start many adults reciting the rest. The story is simple: a rabbit is going to bed, and after taking stock of every item in his room, he says goodnight to each, one at a time. Brown's soothing text is complimented by Hurd's vibrant illustration. Can you find the mouse in every colored picture?

This oversized board book format is larger than the original board book and the original picture book, too! This new size invites children on your lap to enter the great green room!

Barnes & Noble Staff

Just in time for gift-giving season, the two hardcover staples for every nursery Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown, illus. by Clement Hurd are now available in a handsome fabric-covered shrink-wrapped cardboard sleeve as A Margaret Wise Brown Gift Set. In addition, an oversize board book edition of Goodnight Moon makes the great green room larger than ever, allowing readers to trace with ease the tiny mouse that appears in each spread. (Sept.) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Publishers Weekly

The axiom that you can't improve on an original will need some readjusting when it comes to this delightful board book version of one of literature's classic children's stories. This sturdy, 8 1/2 by 11 board book has all the charm of its smaller sibling while also featuring something all parents of young children can appreciate, large, virtually indestructible, heavy cardboard pages coated with a seemingly waterproof veneer. The publisher's designation of this board book as a "lap edition" is most appropriate. Young readers will be quite comfortable ensconced on a parent's lap with this book's broad pages spread out before them. Little readers will find the larger type easier to follow and the smartly drawn color and grayscale illustrations even more compelling than those of the original version. This is the perfect book for introducing toddlers and infants to the joys of reading. They will doubtless enjoy sharing this timeless tale with their favorite storytellers. 2001, (orig. 1947), HarperCollins Publishers,
— Bruce Adelson

Children's Literature

After fifty years, this story is still going strong and it's now available in a board book edition. It is a soothing bedtime story that parents can now read to their very young ones. All of the elements are there, alternating black and white and full color spreads and the little mouse who appears in each colorful scene.

Children's Literature - Marilyn Courtot