![]() ![]() I have only just begun to read it, but so far I enjoy it very much. I recently purchased Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter by Seth Lerer. The words are simple, and the rhymes are lilting and gentle. Some nights we read backward because my son wants to turn the pages himself. On some squirmy nights we read very quickly. Some nights I point out the toys in the pictures. But it is a different experience every night. Yes, every night the little bunny says goodnight to the same objects in his same green room in the same order. But nights like the other night, nights when he is excited to read, reinforce the need to keep reading.īesides, I’ve found that I love to read Goodnight Moon. Reading to him was a struggle for a few months, especially when he started “eating” the books (literally taking a bite out of one book). After all, at four months, I know he wasn’t really listening or looking at the pictures. I read it to him every night for months.Īt first, I thought I’d get tired of reading him the same story every night. At that point, it was one of the five children’s books that was not 16,000 miles away in storage. My son was 3½-months-old when my mother sent him Goodnight Moon for Christmas. He stopped squirming and clapped his hands together, ready for his story. ![]() “In the great green room,” I began, setting him on my knee. ![]()
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