Author: Margaret Wise Brown
Title: Goodnight Moon
Illustrator: Clement Hurd
Publisher: Harper & Row Publishers Inc.
Year:1947
Genre: Picture book
Format: Softcover
Reading Level: Assisted, emergent reader
Interest level: Pre-K, early elementary
Topics: bedtime, toys, rhyming, goodnight
Summary: A little bunny is going to bed. He's looking throughout his room and saying goodnight to all of the objects while rhyming. As he says goodnight the room is getting darker. The "old lady says hush" and it is time for bed.
Extension Activity: Have the kids talk about what they do before they go to bed. Do they brush their teeth? Do they read a book? Talk about what they do during the day that makes them tired for bed. Have them decorate a picture of a bedspread for a bed. They can use markers, crayons, tissue paper, buttons, etc.
