Goodnight Moon--Thoughts of an Easier Time


“More Exceptional than the books we label “read before we die” are those we’ve come to treasure before we learn to read.” James Mustich

Hey 1000 Bookies...

Our next selection on the 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die is a book that I have read thousands of times, and I hope thousands more.  Goodnight Moon is one of several children’s books listed on the 1,000 Books to Reach Before You Die.  Goodnight Moon boasts one of the more famous opening lines in literary history, “In the Great Green Room…”. 

The book was published in 1947 and has not gone out of print to this day, Goodnight Moon was special to me because I was able to share it with my girls.  Marie Weisgerber, one of my guest bloggers, gave Goodnight Moon as a gift to my oldest daughter, Rachael when she was born.  My wife and I spent many evenings reciting the story to our three daughters.  We read that book almost every night before bed.  Goodnight Moon is the perfect book to begin to teach kids to read. 

The language and objects for the most part have stood the test of time.  Although most kids today have different concepts of a what a telephone looks like.  Feeding anyone mush today might be considered cruel and unusual punishment.  Once started the book cadence has a melody that is so soothing to push away the cares of the day (even for adults). 

Looking backwards from whatever perch we are standing, we can see Goodnight Moon, we can see our Moms and Dads, our Grandmothers and Aunts reading the books to us. Goodnight Moon evokes a powerful nostalgia like a Christmas ornament or a favorite childhood blanket.  We think of family who are long gone, and an easier time in our lives. 

Please go out and purchase a copy to give to a young child in your life today.  Take the 10 minutes to read it to them. 

Keep Reading My Friends!!!!




Thank You and Keep Reading my Friends!!!!!!!

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

A Mysterious Groom... An Uppity Bride... A Far off Island Wedding .... Betrayal & Murder...What Could Possibly Go Wrong????

Image
“ Nowhere on earth could possibly live up to those halcyon days .   But that’s nostalgia for you, the tyranny of those memories of childhood that feel so golden, so perfect” Aoife, The Wedding Planner. The Guest List A Review by Jim Romano  Hello 1000 Bookies!  This week we land in a murder mystery, The Guest List by Lucy Foley.  I love a good mystery and this book delivers one.  The story takes place at a wedding on an island off the coast of Ireland—Inis an Amplora or its other name Cormorant.  What an awesome place to go for a wedding, Right?  Social influencers and minor celebrities Julia and Will are having their big day but not everyone is happy about it.  What makes this book very interesting to me is the reader does not know who is murdered and who is the murderer till the end.  At about 330 pages the story is a lot of fun and a quick read.  I read it in one weekend because I could not put it down. I always judge a mystery by t...
Read more

It's Fruitcake Weather... A Classic Christmas Short Story by Truman Capote

Image
 A Christmas Memory Revisited by James Romano Hello 1,000 Bookies!!  Today on our journey through literature we stop in the southern United States during the Great Depression.  As we celebrate the literature of the holiday season, we will discuss today, A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote.  Purchase any collection of Christmas literature (and believe me I have several) this tale is included in each.  Written by Truman Capote, who was an eccentric writer and celebrity— A Christmas Memory tell the story of his last Christmas living with relatives in rural Alabama.  Capote is known for writing the original true crime book, In Cold Blood (one of the 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die ).  In Cold Blood describes the true story of a murder of a family in the 1950s in rural Kansas.  Capote also wrote the classic story, Breakfast at Tiffany’s which because the film most associated with actress Audrey Hepburn.  A Christmas Memory is quite a cute...
Read more

A Great Read into Tudor England, "For Want of a Son, the Church of England was Born" Malcom Forbes

Image
  “Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.”   Wolf Hall A Review by James Romano For the first book I finished reading in 2021, our portal takes us to Tudor England during the reign of King Henry VIII in the historical fiction novel Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel.   Wolf Hall is the first novel in a three-book trilogy chronicling the rise, the height of power and then fall of Thomas Cromwell.   Historically, Thomas Cromwell was a councilor to King Henry VIII and for a period of time one of his most trusted advisors.   The historical Cromwell had a storied career, he helped end the King’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon; overthrow the power of the Catholic Church in England; advance the English Reformation and beginnings of the Anglican Church; oversaw the sending of St. Thomas More and Anne Boleyn to their respective graves and engineer the King’s marriage to both Jane Seymour and Anne of Cleves. The last of those ma...
Read more