Epic Win: Goodnight Moon
Submitted by Laura M
Goodnight Moon was an epic bedtime story. It taught us to say goodnight to all of the things we cared about, whether they be our family members, or stuff animals, or other inanimate objects in our room.
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In my town, we have the little mouse from Goodnight Moon hidden all over our downtown area. You have to walk around looking for the little bronze statues, it always makes me smile.
WHAT IS YOUR TOWN I MUST MOVE THERE!!
Look! There’s Christopher Walken reading Goodnight Moon!
BEST EVAR
Kids, please, scootch closer. Don’t make me ask you AGAIN about the SCOOTCHING.
You in the red, chop-chop.
Here’s where I would post a link to that but it seems YouTube is down. :[
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob37KzlUEPA
THANK YOU! Holy crap that just made my day. I’m so glad ya’ll remember that.
A spoof of this book was written and was entitled “Goodnight Bush.” The book made fun of all the things Bush did wrong during his terms as president.
Yeah, MAD did a whole bunch of them.
I almost fell asleep
(seriously)
One of the best things about this book is that the mouse is hiding out on every page. One of the best childrens books ever.
We LOVED this book when ours were small — I read it and read it til I could recite it from memory (handy when we were traveling!) — and we found the mouse on every page, every single night.
I miss it — and I still have the book. Maybe I’ll be able to read it to my grandkids some day.
The author graduated from my college. That always tickled me, I love her books!
I only know this from a scene in Playing By Heart, but it sounded beautiful…
I really did that– I said goodnight to everything in my room. I remember that it helped me when I was scared of the dark.
But–but–”stuff animals”?? Come on, who’s running this site, again?
They are “stuffed” animals. Stuffed with . . . stuff.
My mom would always read this to me before bed. My favourite line was something about “Goodnight, brush. Goodnight mush”.
The painting in the room reminded me of The Runaway Bunny. As much as I loved this book, and read it till the staples fell out, the hardcover Runaway Bunny was my favorite.
I demand me some Runaway Bunny!
The runaway bunny is by the same author.
We love this book here! I read it to my little guy every night.
…and Berkeley Breathed ended the Opus comic with our beloved penguin hero going into this very book.
No joke: I read this to my kid MOMENTS before I spotted this on Once Upon a Win. EPIC win indeed.
Maybe I should get a copy and read it when I can’t sleep. Just seeing the cover reminds me how safe I felt when mom and dad tucked me in at night. Hubby snoring beside me just isn’t the same (though still comforting).
I guess I’m the only one who hates this book – hated it as a kid, refused to read it to my kids. It’s just annoying….I prefer Dr. Seuss or Sandra Boynton any day…
You’re not the only one. I read while pregnant and thought it was crap then when I read it to my son he howled. He’s old enough now to choose his own stories and whenever he accidentally pulls it off the shelf he says “no mummy, put it in the trash.”
We’re big Boynton fans here. Actually listening to Pajama Time as I type, little bedtime ritual.
Thank goodness I’m not alone! LOVE the Going To Bed Book!
My teacher read the Spanish version of that book in my spanish class one day.
Awesome piece of child psychology. Gently bore them to sleep. XD Mission accomplished.
I was going to show some love for “Nighty Night Toon”, the Animaniacs homage to “Goodnight Moon”, but the only version up on YouTube is in French.
HATE this book! I was a nanny when I was in college and the little boy I took care of wanted me to read it constantly. It bored me to tears and I thought the text was really stupid. Never bought a copy for my son when he was little and I don’t think he missed out on anything. This book is tripe.
Wow that was book that really scared me more than anything else at that time. I can even still remeber the exact smell of that book.