Title: Goodnight Moon (Caldecott Award Winner)
Author: Margaret Wise Brown
Illustrator: Clement Hurd
Publisher: HarperCollins
Year Published: 1947
Format: Hard Cover
Genre: Picture Book
Reading Level: Assisted Reader
Reading Interest Level: Pre-School-Elementary School
Topics/ Key Words: Goodnight, night-time
Summary: Throughout this book, the narrator is saying a series of goodnight to household objects. The narrator starts out with the broad things in a “lighted” page and the book -ends with the narrator in the dark, ready for bed.
Extension Activity: Since this book is aimed at such a young reading level, the extension activity would be for the kids to simply help spell out each of the objects as the reader says goodnight to them. This incorporates spelling into reading and allows the children to be interactive with the book.
